Green Options

Next time you’re ready for new underwear try PACT, they make super organic underwear and donate 10% of all revenue to helping the seas through Oceana, the trees with ForestEthics and 826 National for literacy. Three great ways to help, with undies!

Branded by fuseproject their motto is change starts with your underwear. Unmentionables are worth mentioning when they can save the world with special (buying) power.

Planning a romantic day this Valentines? Yes? No? Well, just in case, here is our lovely green Valentine guide for the upcoming holiday:

1. Love Notes: Give your sweets a personalized note that you craft yourself or share the love with virtual notes like WWF E-cards and Nature Conservancy Valentine E-cards.
2. Blooms: Organic Bouquet has wonderful ways to give fresh flowers and help charity at the same time, and Local Harvest is  another favorite flower source of ours that always brings the freshness of the flower-farm into your home.

There is a film out called Pants Exposed, which looks at the lingerie or “knicker” industry for what it really is. Aside from having the models strip on the runway, rather than wear unethical undies, they show not only the bad, but also the good, sharing their best picks for ethical knicker materials too.

It’s time once again for a festive lingerie party so check out these new stockings from g=9.8 offered for the holidays from By Nature. They combine softness, elegance and warmth. The tights are made from pine fiber, which is a new material derived from recycling the wastes of tree pruning. They’ve added new colors this season like sophisticated black currant shown here.

Sophie Young the founder of g=9.8 uses Lenpur® which she promotes as, “a sustainable textile made from white pine tree clippings processed with enzymes into fibre.”

The fiber has amazing properties, for example:

• the material regulates temperature so that you are never too hot or too cold.
• it holds it’s shape and conforms to your curves.
• the fiber is biodegradable and anti-bacterial.
• it washes well and dries very quickly.

By Nature explains:

Clare Bare has some lovely new holiday intimate items over at the Öko Box.

Leslie of  the Öko Box explains:

“Clare Bare is a one girl force based in a studio in Brooklyn. Promptly after graduating from Parsons School of Design, she began designing one of a kind and limited edition pieces made from eco-friendly materials. She uses vintage fabric and trimmings for most of her garments, and any new materials that she uses are made from organic cotton. Clare Bare makes garments that accentuate the body, rather than cover it up, push it up, or transform it in an unnatural way. She doesn’t believe in clothing that is created to solve a problem, because the flaw doesn’t exist until you design something for it. Clare Bare lingerie is simple and flattering, designed with every body type in mind.  “

We think this set would make a great gift for the holidays! Here is another angle:

Last season I interviewed Leslie Richard and found out all about the Öko Box,

and she shared her love of Enamore lingerie. Now they’re a main feature for fall in the intimate section of the Öko Box!

She explains:

“Enamore sets out to bring classic and vintage styles to her designs, like the classic pin-up, which is a sustainable approach to the usual throw away fashion world.”

Enamore was founded by Jenny Ambrose, after discovering

Just when you thought that luxurious eco lingerie was out of your reach, think again, we’ve found some options under twentyfive now. Go ahead, if you dare, and stretch your pocketbook to pair bikini briefs with g=9.8 thigh-high tights.

Good Humans offers some very nice undies for her. I am smitten over these String Bikini Briefs and Simple Rib Undies both 100% organic cotton baby rib lingerie. A soft, pure, light weight knit with gentle strength for a perfect fit. Made in the USA. Shown below is an example assortment of colors, 

Finally, something both parties can agree on. We need to integrate green living into every aspect of our lives: a single stinky compost heap isn’t enough (it may also be a mood-killer). They may say that “politics makes for strange bedfellows,” but this three-part miniseries will teach you how to get over your differences and save the environment one orgasm at a time.

PART ONE: FOREPLAY

Set the mood right. Instead of going on a long drive down a backcountry road, opt for a walk on the beach or in a secluded garden. You will (hopefully) admit negligible amounts of carbon gas. Don’t live near a scenic getaway? Find interesting things to walk to in your neighborhood: your partner will get to know more about you when he or she see s how you interact with your environment. Although cliché, a tandem bike is also a good option because it’s environmentally safe and promotes close physical proximity.

The hardest part for me when hunting for sustainable clothing is finding cute, comfortable lingerie. Enter Blue Canoe Organic. They have a whole line of organic cotton bras, undies and nighties! Not only is everything made from soft, sustainable materials, it’s made here in the US and is sweatshop-free.

The company is a member of Co-op America Business Network, a group of companies with a mission to promote environmentally and socially responsible business.

Stella McCartney’s new eco-friendly lingerie line is very fun to wear underneath with sweet designs reminiscent of the French style. Her sheer silk chiffon, organic cotton, and

1. MAS Holdings, Sri Lanka’s biggest apparel company, has a new lingerie factory backed by Marks & Spencer (M&S), who is one of their best clients. The undergarment factory uses 40% less energy than a factory of the same size and the electricity is from renewable sources like 10% from on-site solar panels and the other 90% from hydro-power plant energy. MAS is reported to be the world’s first carbon-neutral clothes factory.