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The Green Guide to Style: Greening Your Closet
By Sally Glover. Posted on 3:33:00 pm - Thursday, January 22, 2009.
Tags: eco-friendly, fashion, green, style.

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The best thing we’ve learned in the year and a half we’ve been publishing our eco-friendly fashion column is that making good clothing choices doesn’t mean sacrificing style. Obviously. In the final installment of Obviously.ca’s Green Guide to Style, we’ve compiled our ultimate five tips for truly greening your closet. 


The Green Guide to Style: Holiday Gift Guide (for him)
By Sally Glover. Posted on 11:34:00 am - Friday, December 19, 2008.
Tags: fashion, guys

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Still searching for the perfect prezzie for the fashion-conscious man in your life?

Hoping to round out your wish list with a few sustainably made goodies?

Take inspiration from our holiday gift guide for guys, filled with great gift ideas that are both fashion-forward and eco-friendly. (Check out our previous post for gift ideas for girls.)


The Green Guide to Style: Holiday Gift Guide (for her)
By Sally Glover. Posted on 11:56:00 am - Friday, December 12, 2008.
Tags: fashion

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Still searching for the perfect prezzie for the fashionista in your life?

Hoping to round out your wish list with a few sustainably made goodies?

Take inspiration from our holiday gift guide for girls, filled with great gift ideas that are both fashion-forward and eco-friendly. (Check back next week for our gift ideas for guys.)


The Green Guide to Style: Winter Skin Care
By Sally Glover. Posted on 1:38:00 pm - Friday, November 28, 2008.
Tags: Cold, Fashion, Winter

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Wicked winter weather can wreak havoc on even the most resilient skin. Hydrating your face and body is important year-round, but essential during the winter months when we’re vulnerable to damage from Ontario’s cold climes. We’ve put together our best suggestions to help you keep your glow in the snow this season.


NewsWatch: May 27, 2008
By Obviously.ca Staff. Posted on 11:25:00 am - Tuesday, May 27, 2008.
Tags: biodiversity, biofuels, Brazil, China, DDT, fashion, glaciers, penguins, plastic bags, species, WWF

Topics: biofuels, Brazil, WWF, DDT, glaciers, penguins, species, biodiversity, China, plastic bags, fashion


NewsWatch: April 16, 2008
By Obviously.ca Staff. Posted on 11:01:01 am - Wednesday, April 16, 2008.
Tags: bisphenol A, Bush, fashion, gas, greenhouse gas emissions, oil, plastic

Topics: Bush, greenhouse gas emissions, plastic, fashion, gas, oil, bisphenol A


The Green Guide to Style: Eco Couture
By Sally Glover. Posted on 7:00:00 am - Thursday, January 24, 2008.
Tags: eco-friendly, fashion, glamour

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It’s official - it’s fashionable to be green. The opening show of New York Fashion Week next month will seem just like any other – with models strutting down the runway for big name designers, celebrities filling the front row and a frenzy of frocks backstage – but there’ll be one exception. Every garment shown in the kick-off to fashion’s biggest week will be made from recyclable, sustainable and earth-friendly fibres.


The Green Guide to Style: Winter Wear
By Sally Glover. Posted on 7:00:00 am - Thursday, November 29, 2007.
Tags: fashion, faux fur, green guide, hemp, style, winter wear

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With last week’s unofficial start of winter blasting into Ontario, we were all rummaging around in our closets for snow boots, winter hats and mittens. Many of us probably felt a twinge of guilt as we slipped into last year’s (animal skin) Uggs (ugh!). 


The Green Guide to Style: Let’s Get Intimate
By Sally Glover. Posted on 10:19:00 am - Thursday, November 15, 2007.
Tags: fashion, green guide, recycling, style, underwear

Wouldn’t most of us love to live in a climate suited to wearing loincloths and fig leaves every day? Talk about being one with nature. Thankfully, there are plenty of alternatives to the chemical-laden, pesticide-sucking cotton and nylon skivvies found at most generic retailers. 


The Green Guide to Style: Recycle!
By Sally Glover. Posted on 9:13:00 am - Thursday, November 01, 2007.
Tags: eco-friendly, fashion, recycled clothing, sustainable

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Scouring for vintage treasures should no longer be the exclusive domain of angst-y hipsters looking for cheap retro tees. Reclaiming old cast-offs helps reduce the garment industry’s reliance on polluting synthetics and the energy needed to manufacture them.


The Green Guide to Style: Women’s Fall Fashions
By Sally Glover. Posted on 6:30:00 am - Thursday, October 18, 2007.
Tags: eco-friendly, fashion, sustainable

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Making eco-friendly clothing choices no longer means sacrificing style. Get inspired and expand your closet with a conscience while keeping your cool with our Green Guide to Style. We’ll show you where to find the hottest trends with a planet-friendly perspective - and make you forget that old stereotype of a patchouli-drenched hippie in a burlap sack. Women’s Fall Fashions.


The Green Guide to Style: Men’s Fall Fashions
By Sally Glover. Posted on 12:33:00 pm - Monday, October 01, 2007.
Tags: eco-friendly, fashion, sustainable

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Making eco-friendly clothing choices no longer means sacrificing style. Get inspired to expand your closet with a conscience and keep your cool with our Green Guide to Style. We’ll show you where to find the hottest trends with a planet-friendly perspective.


Fast Clothes
By Josh. Posted on 2:27:00 pm - Thursday, September 20, 2007.
Tags: carbon emissions, clothing, disposable, environment, fashion

We live in a fashionable world. Everybody wants to look good. Everyone wants to look cool. The question is, what’s the cost to all this good-looking?


Wear Your Recyclables on Your Arm
By Josh. Posted on 1:40:00 pm - Wednesday, May 16, 2007.
Tags: eco-friendly, fashion, hangbags, recycling

Canadian website brings eco-friendly bags right to your front door. 


Where’d They Grow That Outfit?
By Stephen. Posted on 2:58:00 pm - Wednesday, May 09, 2007.
Tags: designers, fair trade, fashion, organic, recyled, stores, Toronto, vegan

Now that GREEN is the new BLACK, be on the lookout for bamboo, hemp and soy off-the-rack and on the runway for spring ‘07.


Vanity Fair Goes Green.  Again
By Josh. Posted on 2:55:00 pm - Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
Tags: celebrities, fashion, green, polar bear, vanity fair

Leonardo Dicaprio graces the cover of Vanity Fair’s second ‘green’ issue with Knut, the Polar Bear cub.


Diesel Threads and Global Warming - Together at Last!
By Stephen. Posted on 11:09:00 am - Tuesday, March 27, 2007.
Tags: advertising, climate change, clothing, Diesel, fashion, global warming

Earth is in the dumper.  Time to get your fash on.


Fast Clothes
By Josh. Posted on 11:08:00 am - Tuesday, March 27, 2007.
Tags: carbon emissions, clothes, fashion, rentals, waste

It’s possible that the shirt on your back is causing global warming. Are you cool with that?


Rolling Out the Green Carpet for an Evening of Sustainable
By Josh. Posted on 11:20:00 am - Friday, March 23, 2007.
Tags: celebrity, fashion, green, sustainability

It’s Tuesday night and the Berkeley Church is packed with THUGs, which, is exactly how WWF-Canada wants it.