Style and Sustainability: Can they Coexist?
You don’t have to sacrifice personal style and creativity to be sustainable.
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Natural Dyeing with Food Scraps and Foraged Flowers
Upcycle old items with natural dying! Natural Dyer, Cara Marie Piazza, and climate advocate, Madeleine Wallace, walk through an easy DIY natural dyeing technique using food scraps, foraged flowers, and a tee shirt.
Zero Waste Wardrobe: How to Assess & Edit Your Closet
Proof that you can love clothes AND stay zero waste at the same time.
A Zero Waste Alternative To Dry Cleaning
Dry cleaning. Let’s talk about it. First of all, I stopped going to the dry cleaner years ago. Not for environmental reasons, but because they are SO expensive. Paying $8 in NYC to have a shirt cleaned? No thanks. Besides the cost of getting my clothes “professionally cleaned”, I began to learn about what they were actually being cleaned…
Shopping Secondhand in NYC
People ask me all the time how I shop Zero Waste. My answer: secondhand! I buy all of my clothing secondhand which helps me to save money and have a closet full of unique items. How do I do it? Well, I teamed up with Suitcase Magazine and Viber to create a video on why I love secondhand shopping…