Courtesy photo. The Ethical Fashion Forum (EFF) is accepting applications for the 2010 Innovation Award , an annual sustainable design competition and, along with The Fairtrade Foundation , they have launched a new category sponsored by Tesco: The Fairtrade Cotton Award. If you are an aspiring green designer or if you are established and want to broaden your audience, this is the competition for you. Click through for details, deadlines(!), and view photo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Calling All (Aspiring) Green Fashion Designers: Deadline Approaching for Sustainable Design Competition

Image courtesy of TOMS Shoes TOMS Shoes hardly needs an introduction–especially this month they have already made fashion headlines with their on-trend men’s nautical styles and their new limited-edition Charity:Water kicks –but for those who aren’t familiar the philanthropic footwear brand

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Ladies, TOMS Shoes Introduces The Wedge Heel! (Photos)

Air-drying clothing is definitely the cheapest, and especially the most eco-friendly way of drying your clothes; no energy or machinery is needed. However, if you live in a small space, a rainy country or simply are a busy (or forgetful) person, line-drying can be a little impractical, or even, banned by the authorities depending on where you live (see video Drying for Freedom )! Levi’s wants us to come up with a solution and will launch the

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Care to Air Design Challenge by Levi’s

Credit: LemLem Ethiopian supermodel and and World Health Organisation Goodwill Ambassador Liya Kebede graces the pages of Vogue this month wearing her ethical fashion label the Lemlem collection–styled with a pair of Olsen Haus vegan shoes, to boot–reports

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Supermodel Liya Kebede’s Ethical Fashion Apparel Preserves Ethiopian Hand Weaving (Video & Photos)

Credit: Kava Gorna/Interview Magazine Cord reigns supreme in these tactile treasures made by Michelle Lane Jewelry . The designer, a friend of mine, officially launched her first collection–just in time to tap into summer’s favorite trend: Sailing. Though, it’s misleading to categorize her jewelry as on-trend ; They’re not designed to be trendy–or disposable–they’re meant to be worn over and over again–and I ima… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Michelle Lane Launches First Collection of Handmade Cord Jewelry for Summer (Photos)

Credit: FEED Projects Guatemalan artisans helped create Lauren Bush ‘s latest line of FEED tote bags and zippered pouches, to be sold exclusively at Lord & Taylor –thanks to La Casa Guatemala for sending the news. The traditional handloomed Ikat fabrics were made in collaboration with

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Lauren Bush Launches FEED Guatemala Bags in Bright Ikat Fabrics Made by Artisans

Images via Gizmag Japan’s Triumph International has done it again. Each year, we see some seriously crazy ideas for bras. In the past, it’s been everything from saving energy with a breast-warming bra to turning your bra into a reusable shopping bag (scaling up the popular use of bra-as-purse), to the chops… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Extreme Container Gardening: Grow Rice In Your Bra

The Garden retreat took place at a restored villa in Newburgh, New York. Credit: Emma Grady This past weekend I escaped the urban jungle that is Manhattan and ventured to upstate New York for a yoga retreat. I had the chance to try out some yoga essentials sent over by Prancing Leopard , an organic cotton yoga apparel company that also has a lovely collection of knit and crochet artisan pieces made through their nonprofit

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In Upstate NY, a Yoga Retreat With a Nutritious, Local Twist

Urbancase For years, TreeHugger has been showing designs that help integrate work and living by making your computer hardware go away when the workday is over. It is less of a problem than it used to be, as our work hardware becomes our entertainment and leisure hardware as well, (and gets smaller and better looking all the time) but it is still nice to have a place to put it. Darin Montgomery of Urbancase has designed a very elegant little unit that does it beautifully. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Transformer Desk from Urbancase Discreetly Hides Your Computer

Well, at least for the past 120 years or so… image: NOAA Oh, and the warmest January-April on record too. That’s the word from NOAA and refers to the combined global land and ocean surface temperatures, which at 14.5°C (58.1°F) was 0.76°C (1.37°F) above the average for the 20th century…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Warmest April, Ever – NOAA Releases New Global Temperature Data