Jezebel: Green

Rihanna's Rumored Topshop Line

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:43:00 EST

Rihanna had dinner with Topshop founder Philip Green and Simon Cowell. Because Green and Cowell run an entertainment company that produces television and fashion ventures, the tabloid seers are pretty sure that means Rihanna's getting a clothing line. [Daily Mail]

Nearly Everything Labeled "Green" Is Actually Not

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:30:00 EDT

95% of "eco-friendly" products are total bullshit. As if the idea that companies would mislead customers into buying (nice, green!) Widget A over (horrid, unsustainable!) Sprocket B weren't bad enough, businesses love "green" claims, because they make people buy stuff. More »

The 5 Worst Mean (Little) Girls Of All Time

Sadie Stein — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:14:00 EDT

The New York Times tells us that mean girls are getting younger. But as most of us know, the elementary-school mean girl is in fact an iconic — and feared — figure. Herewith, five of the very worst. More »

Superhero Movies For Everyone! Except Batgirl.

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:20:00 EDT

Superhero flicks are almost always wildly popular, and in the wake of franchise flicks like Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Iron Man, studios are preparing Green Lantern, Captain America, Green Hornet and Thor, among others. Not getting a movie? Batgirl. More »

Tilda Smells Like Holidays; Designer Makes Road-Kill Hats

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EDT

Tilda, on her fragrance: "My son tells me it smells like Christmas." [WWD]
"I like to look at paintings mainly, like those of Francis Bacon. Or Mapplethorpe, Newton, and Penn," says noted hottie/photographer Victor Demarchelier, son of Patrick. [Style.com]

March Anthropologie: A Lush, Tropical Dream With Nightmarish Shoes

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:20:00 EST

Vivid verdant backdrops dominate March's Anthropologie catalog, which showed up in mailboxes last night, and the tropical fever dream carries right into the clothes: Hothouse flowers splashed on swimsuits; palm-leaf print dresses. The shoes, however, should be burned like kudzu. More »

"In Fashion, Green Is Not The New Black:" The Sustainable Fashion "Backlash":

Sadie Stein — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:00:00 EST

It was inevitable, but given the relative youth of the phenomenon itself doesn't this feel, a little, well, premature? More »

Vogue: It Is Easy Being Green... If You Live In The Chelsea Hotel

Anna North — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EDT

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Behind its Photoshop-of-Horrors cover, this month's Vogue is packed with the type of supposedly socially responsible content that's been its wont lately. But as regular Vogue readers already know, everything — including social responsibility — is easier when you're rich. More »

Jessica Alba's Easy Tips For Going Green

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:20:00 EDT

In the video at the link, Jessica Alba tells Vogue about "easy ways an average person can start to 'go green.'" So far she's composting, cleaning with vinegar and replacing her lawn with grass made from... tires. [Vogue] More »

Vogue's Eco Economics

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:20:00 EDT

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As discussed, Vogue's "green" issue is more about cash than the environment. So even though Cammie Diaz is wearing organic cotton on the cover, the last page features a $5,900 bike with $975 "basket." More »

Vogue's "Green" Issue: Fa$hion With A Con$cience

Anna North — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:00:00 EDT

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Despite its Style Ethics page and photoshoot of Cameron Diaz in organic hemps and cottons, the green this month's Vogue really cares about comes from a wallet, not a tree. More »

Cosmetics Company Discovers The Power Of Cow Poop

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:40:00 EDT

The next tube of lipstick you buy from L'Oréal may be brought to you by cow dung. The company's Belgium factory is installing a biomass electricity-generating system that will essentially power the factory on poop. More »

Which Birth Control Is Best For Fish?

Anna North — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:30:00 EST

Get your mind out of the pond — we're just talking about The Green Lantern's claim that birth control pills may be harming fish. Want to be ichthyoid-friendly? Use condoms. [Slate] More »

Your Long-Distance Relationship Is Ruining The Planet

Sadie Stein — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:00:00 EST

Today, Slate's environmental column tells you that if you're dating from afar, you should be wracked with guilt: dating locally is much more sustainable. The emotional end? That's your selfish problem. More »

Privileged Kids Say The Darndest Things! The New Junior Eco-Police

Sadie Stein — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT

As a child who had all the self-righteous conviction of a young Ingrid Newkirk and routinely lectured both children and adults on the dangers of meanness, smoking and reading Once Upon A Potty, I feel uniquely qualified to comment on incredibly annoying children who parrot back their parents' convictions while the adults look on in smug pride. The Times describes the new phenomenon of "eco-kids," tots who match around delivering sermons, ostentatiously turning off lights and saying things like, "every day is Earth Day." More »

MTV Profiles People Who Drop Out Of Society To Live Off The Grid

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:00:00 EDT

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This weekend, MTV aired another installment of its documentary series True Life, called I Live Off the Grid. It followed a group of people who live with an incredible amount of guilt concerning the resources they use and joined a program to learn how to live completely off the land, using no man-made materials (besides clothing, which must be made out of natural fabric) for an entire year. Their teacher, a man named Tamarac, schools them on the "ritual" of their bowel movements, which he ceremoniously refers to as "dumps," and scolds the campers for eating "elder" clams, because elders should be respected. All I know is that if I ate some of the meals these kids were eating (raw meat from roadkill, leaves, clams), my dumps wouldn't be rituals as much as parades of poop. More »

Wall-E: It's Not Easy Being Green

Maria — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:00:00 EDT

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Pixar's latest film, Wall-e has been over a decade in the making, but the film's subversive, environmentally friendly, anti-consumerism platform holds truer today than they did ten years ago. Wall-e, which features the voices of Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin and Fred Willard, centers around a robot (named, not surprisingly, "Wall-e") who was created to clean up a deserted Earth all alone. Wall-e meets a new robot named Eve and they fall in robot-love until she is forced to leave and he tags along. On the trip, the duo discover a spaceship inhabited by humans (and where all of them have grown fat and lazy, sucking down fast food like it's going out of style). What do reviewers have to say about a children's film with such subversive messages (let alone those that may be seen as "anti-fat" and "anti-Republican")? Do the messages overshadow the heart of the film? The reviews, after the jump. More »

Barbie Goes Green; Berlin Sets Up Stalker Center

maria — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:30:00 EDT

• From Anya Hindmarch to Barbie, the trend of "Green" handbags has officially run its course. • Prep author naturally turns to Laura Bush for new book. • Juno is on top of the DVD-sales charts, those Hills ads work! • Did you know that we ascribe gender stereotypes to women and men? Groundbreaking! • Norman Mailer's former mistress dishes on sex life for 50 pages. • Lovers too poor to wed cozy up on bridge in Cairo. • India to increase penalties in aborting female fetuses. • Berlin set up a walk-in clinic to help stalkers. • Saudis are slow to accept working women. • Reflecting on meals can curb overeating. • Two fatal accidents at Indian weddings leave 43 dead. More »

How Do You Dispose Of Broken Vibrators?

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:30:00 EDT

A story on Utne about "green" sex toys the other day got me wondering: how exactly does one get rid of a sex toy? Particularly the large ones, meant for those who mean business? I used to have a humongous Dr. Scholl's personal massager that my ex-BF's mom gave him for Christmas one year after he started weight-training. (Weird, I know.) Naturally, I called dibs on it and used it as my main vibe for years, long after we'd broken up. Then, one day, it started sparking, turned black, and conked out so I ripped the cord out of the wall, in fear that it might start a fire. When I walked it out to the kitchen and stepped on my trashcan pedal to throw it out, I realized that the vibe was almost as long as the garbage. (I'm not kidding, I measured it and it was a little over 18" long.) And then it hit me: maybe I should be put it out on the curb on the "large electronics and metal" recycling day. As a substantial piece of machinery, it seemed like it qualified! More »

We dove into today's Washington Post story...

Moe — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:45:00 EST

We dove into today's Washington Post story on our new favorite concept, "green collar jobs" with all the impatience of a certain presidential candidate when it comes to enacting change. What exactly, besides installing solar panels and maintaining windmills, does the "green collar" job sector comprise? Hmmmm. [Washington Post] More »

Drowning In Catalogs? Some Retailers Don't Give A Damn

dodai — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:30:00 EST

As you may have noticed, we have a love/hate relationship with catalogs. But, reports BusinessWeek, an activist Web site called Catalog Choice offers a free service: Sign up and stop receiving paper catalogs you just don't want. The organization claims you can reduce your junk mail while simultaneously helping the environment, but when it contacted companies like L.L. Bean, Williams-Sonoma and Harry & David and asked them to take thousands of people off of their mailing lists, the retailers pretty much ignored the request. Catalog Choice launched on October 9 and says it has signed up 300,000-plus people, each of whom declined to receive an average of 12 catalogs. The companies might be spooked: The Direct Marketing Association held a "catalog summit" on December 17, warning attendees about activist groups and advising them "not to encourage" the anti-paper people. More »

Dear Women: Shun Dudes With Sports Cars & Save The World

dodai — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:30:00 EST

At a UN conference on global warming in Bali last week, a young woman asked Sir David King, the UK's chief scientific advisor, what she could do to stop global warming, reports Wired. "I told her stop admiring young men in Ferraris," King says. And while his comment sounds sexist and kind of crazy, doesn't he make a valid point? A chemist at the University of Cambridge, King believes that there's only so much governments can do to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. "What I was saying is you have got to admire people who are conserving energy and not those willfully using it," he explains. Meanwhile, people who have Ferraris are pissed. Peter Everingham, secretary of the Ferrari Owners Club, says that "nearly 90%" of Ferrari owners are married and "not looking to impress women." More »

And Again We Say: Paris Hilton Must Be Stopped

Jennifer — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:40:45 EDT

We said it eight hours ago and we'll say it again: God is dead. Because Paris Hilton has a Teen Choice Award nomination. [TMZ]

Saks Shoezilla To Take Manhattan

Jennifer — Wed, 23 May 2007 11:00:47 EDT

Saks will open a shoe department in its flagship NY store that's so big, it has been given its own zipcode. Somewhere, the ghost of Carrie Bradshaw squeals and says something painfully cutesy. [WWD, sub req'd]]

Thou Shalt Not Wear Italian Designs If Thou Art French

Jennifer — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:20:14 EDT

France's new President and First Lady, Nicolas and Cecilia Sarkozy, cause national uproar when they both wear Italian-designed Prada to inauguration. Only in France, kids, only in France. [WWD, sub req'd]
Pucci label celebrates 60th anniversary with a party that we bet would be a lot of fun on acid, which may have been the catalyst for such profundities as Laudomia Pucci's: ""But you will see there is no red - Daddy worked with fuchsia." [IHT]