Organic clothes

Live Long and Prosper

Just being here adds years to your life -- or at least that's what elderly natives, eager government officials and hopeful visitors in this remote place contend. Poyue and several other villages near the Vietnam border in China's Guangxi Autonomous Region comprise a "longevity cluster." They claim an inordinate number of centenarians, including one said to be 113 years old. The surrounding Bama county, with a population of 250,000, has 74 centenarians, or about one for every 3,400 people, acc...

Organic & Fair Trade Clothing - Maggie's Functional Organics

Maggie's Organics was founded in 1992 on the premise that all workers could be treated ethically and that clothing could be functional, beautiful and affordable and also constructed of environmentally sustainable materials. Sixteen years later, we are proud to say that our proposition has proven true: Our line of organic and fair trade socks, scarves, tights, loungewear, legwarmers, tees, baby clothes, new sock monkeys and fashionable tops continues to fulfill and strengthen our founding prin...

Fall Fashion Preview

This fall, the biggest change in womenswear is the return the hourglass silhouette. After seasons of flowing gowns and baby-doll dresses, designers bring clothes back to the body, with cinched skirts and waist-defining silhouettes.

Glowing after dark

PLANTS absorb sunlight, produce energy, consume carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. It is a perfect model for power generation, but copying Mother Nature is difficult. Although research into solar power has come a long way, sunset still poses a problem. Storing solar-made electricity in batteries can be expensive and inefficient. So to be really successful, the solar industry needs another way to keep power for use at night. Now researchers have found a chemical cocktail that might do the trick...

Win Men's and Women's Organic jeans

This summer, Sharkah Chakra releases the first ever totally organic and 100% bleach free white jeans. These are made from beautiful organic denim and are hand-woven on original selvedge looms, then naturally sun-baked in the Indian sunshine and finished in Italy. The natural sun-baking gives them a gorgeous soft white finish putting them in a class of their own compared to the harsh chemical whites of some other jeans. Each pair of jeans takes 250 days to craft. They are cut straight from the...