Fruit City

Fruit City is a conceptual growing map and network of all the fruit trees in public spaces in London. Logged and mapped by the Fruit City team and you. Much of the fruit we buy in the city is from far flung places like Spain, Brazil and Chile, but literally tons of fruit grows in our own city.

Fruit City is not just a Map of trees, but an initiative to wake people up to the nature on their doorstep. To re-engage folks with the wild and goodness around them and to get local community orchards planted. You’ll find an extensive list of amazing initiatives and schemes that are happening now. As well as recipes and uses for fruit that you may never had thought of. How about some Camden Cherry wine?

Honey Pot Lighting

One of my favourite sustainable furniture designers Tom Raffield has created this new lampshade called ‘The Hive’, with inspiration taken from our winged bee friends. The spiralling shape allows light to flood through the grain of the wood creating a unique and beautiful lighting effect.

La Luminata at Brighton Frocks

The ‘Forever Fashion’ talk for Brighton Frocks went extremely well today, so thanks to everyone who came, sat and listened and made this afternoon’s clothes swap such a success. More details and photo’s of the event to follow…

A great big thankyou goes to:

Riverford Organic Vegetables for donating 2 prizes of vegetable boxes

Poppy Organic Skincare for donating gorgeous samples

Live Native for introducing us to their new products

Innocent Oils for their great goodie bag samples

Eco Bags for supplying all of the clothes swapping bags

Kolkata Fairtrade for generously donating a People Tree dress

FAIR for their continued support to La Luminata

Lifestyle Magazine for the magazines supplied

Miss Eco Glam for introducing La Luminata to new and exciting products

My Eco Store for donating their lovely bags for the clothes swap

Nigel’s Eco Store for their discount vouchers

Natasha Bailie for her great help and support at the event

Photographer Juliet Greig for photographing the event

Gossip for contributing to ‘Forever Fashion’

Brighton Frocks for making this all possible

Create Good Kharma This Summer

Take a first look at these beautiful, simple stylized flower sculptures created by Award Winning Designer Katy Holford. As part of a new collection for Ethical home and lifestyle company, Kharma Home, they create interest to any green or outdoor space.

Be a Good Devil

Mociun, Doie and Fin feature fresh and strong ethical couture collections at DeviDoll for Spring/Summer 2009. The focus is on florals, fine tailoring and colour, all in organic cottons, silks and bamboo making for a beautiful, eco-conscious spring/summer season.  By choosing a tightly knit collection of key pieces mixed in with chic essentials, DeviDoll is helping customers ‘curate their consumption’ whilst staying true to their individual fashion style.

Mountains of the Moon

I’ve been watching this clothing label for a while and it seems to be really going from strength to strength, so time to post a blog about them! Based in Chicago, Mountains of the Moon Eco Fashion is a sustainable design organization aimed at creating chic, high-quality clothing that helps, not hurts, the earth and its inhabitants. Their goal is to work hand in hand with their customers to create high-end fashion which will make a profound, collective difference in the state of our world.

Swapping Just Got Posh

New in a line of clothes swapping websites that are currently springing up. Posh Swaps, is a website will appeal to people who love vintage finds and good quality second-hand items.

Heidi & Seek

Fun, ethical and quirky all sum up this Australian handmade clothing collection. All items are created from reclaimed materials and are guaranteed completely one of a kind.

New Designer Ada Zanditon

Check out the work of this new Fashion Designer who creates avant garde, cutting edge, sustainable but stylish woman’s wear.

The Art of Garden Photography

It must be the season for learning… Art Organics photographer Gill Orsman is holding a photography course in picturesque Cornwall. Book your place here now.