When you think of environmentalist, what do you think of? Me, I think of a granola eating, tennis shoes wearing, dreadlocks sporting feminist. The combination of stereotype tree hugger with “it’s just too out of the way” hinders many people from environmentalism. The truth is, there are so many easy ways to help the environment that aren’t out of the way.
So, can you wear high heels and lips gloss and still care about the planet? Yes.
Sprig
What it has: Food Fashion Beauty Home and Lifestyle
What it is: Sprig is an eco-friendly online store, whose goal is to provide the public with easily change lives to be more environmentally friendly!
Sprig.com’s mission is to motivate, inspire and inform 95% of the consumer population toward becoming 5% more green, as we believe this approach will have a great positive impact on the environment. Not to mention on you! Green is good for you—for your health, your looks, your bank, and your personal and home style. Today, green is a choice; tomorrow, green is a lifestyle.
What I like: Recipes - Sprig provides green (waste-reducing) recipes to fit any palette. What I like about this, is that they provide vegetarian recipes! (For my hippie self!) This eve handbag is totally adorable! This chair would look so good in my room.
Aveda
What it has: Beauty, Hair, Perfume, and Body
What it is: Aveda is a beauty company that is pretty popular. It was founded in 1978, and still provides quality plant based products.
Aveda manufactures professional plant-based hair care, skin care, makeup, Pure-Fume™ and lifestyle products. Headquartered in Blaine, Minnesota, Aveda is available in Aveda stores, and in nearly 7,000 professional hair salons and spas in 24 countries worldwide. Whether you’re new to Aveda or looking for a new experience, find our most popular, award-winning and recommended products or check out.
What I like: First of all, I love that Aveda has so many different campaigns! The use natural products, they package their products in environmentally friendly materials, use renewable energy, contributed over 1 million dollars to raise breast cancer awareness, raised over 8 million for Earth Day awareness, and have a recycle program. Aveda has some amazing products, especially for make-up!
American Apparel
What it has: Men, Women, and Children’s clothing and accessories
What it is: American Apparel is a fashion shop, that produces some really comfortable, affordable, and good looking clothes. They also strive to have all sweatshop free clothing.
The average sewer with experience at American Apparel is making about $25,000/yr (i.e. $12/hr, well over twice the federal minimum). This can be higher in some cases. We also offer parking, subsidized public transport, subsidized lunches, free onsite massages, a bike lending program, a program of paid days off, ESL classes and much more. Most importantly we guarantee job security and full-time employment; this is an anomaly in the garment industry, which has historically been dominated by seasonal work.
What I like: I own a few shirts from AA and they are reallyyy comfortable. They don’t shrink in the wash. I love their clothing!
April 25th, 2008 at 1:31 am
HOORAY FOR COMPROMISE! Seriously, though, girlie hippies are the best.
PS: I love this theme. To run the risk of sounding like someone else, could you make the grey text a little brighter? MY EYES. *sobs*
April 25th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Meli, I cannot help it that your screen is not as bright as my MAC. >:]
April 25th, 2008 at 4:25 am
All right, superbitch moment. I’m sick of people who ask “Can I wear dresses, lipstick, etc. and still be a feminist?” and suchlike questions. The answer, to me, is so painfully obvious. YES, YOU CAN. Feminism and enviromentalism don’t require that you look like a raging bulldyke. You can, if that’s your thing, but why people still believe that you can’t be both feminine and feminist is beyond me. Any educated person should be aware that the image of the bra-burning, non-legs-shaving feminist is a stereotype.
As for me… I love it all. Dresses, skirts, lipstick, camo pants, combat boots, jeans, geek t-shirts… all of these things have a place in my bedroom.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:53 am
I think of a person in green clothes holding a “Save the rainforest”sign. Or something like that. Haha.
Ohh. Those brands sounds very smart, and good for the environment too:D
Btw I’m twoyearslate from dA;)
April 25th, 2008 at 11:02 am
@Jordie: ME TOO! My little sister actually has a camo dress… it’s pretty cool.
@LB: My screen is pretty bright, actually… that grey is still hard to read. X]
April 25th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
What Jordie said! =P
The only thing I could never do (well, not “never” but it’s highly unlikely) is become a vegetarian. I eat red meat sporadically, though… but I can’t give up chicken. It’s beyond cruel the way chickens are treated in those rooster farms, but chicken is my savior! Ah, to be faced with an internal struggle.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Nice post, though I agree with Jordie. Feminism is about embracing differences, not ignoring them or trying to reconcile them with what we “think” feminist women should be. I get sick of how much we limit our own existence!
April 28th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
@Sarahname and Jordie
Thanks for your input! I agree, just wanted to say that environmentalism and feminism are two completely different things, I hope you guys don’t think I was talking about feminism! :)