We love Twitter. Contrary to popular belief, most of the tweets aren’t about what someone is having for lunch or that they stubbed their toe on the way to the water cooler. In fact, we’ve met some pretty cool, eco-friendly people there and wanted to share our favorite eco-fashion micro-bloggers with you.
- AmyTropolis: The fashion editor for EcoSalon, tweets not only about eco-friendly fashion, but offers her followers tips on other sustainable issues too. As a bonus we love her Twitter background.>
- BaharShahpar: A designer of green fashion for years. Bahar has been profiled in ELLE, NYLON, Womens Wear Daily and other magazines for her locally produced, eco-friendly clothing. Clearly she’s a leader in sustainable design.
- CocoEcoMagazine: This online eco-chic magazine covers all facets of sustainable fashion, beauty, celebrities, and culture. And too toot our own horn, they covered AirDye technology in their most recent edition. Hey, we’re all about sustainable fashion too!
- DianeMacEachern: A long-time environmentalist who encourages consumers, especially women, to create a greener world by choosing eco-friendly products. And we know we all have a long way to go when it comes to having real choice at reasonable prices for green fashion.
- Ecochickie: Starre Vartan also writes for the Huffington Post about green living. Not all her tweets are about fashion, but they’re always interesting and have a green twist.
- EcoFashionista: Kelly Drennan was one of the first people we found when we began tweeting over a year ago. Kelly’s a great resource and great voice for eco-friendly fashion. We’d also like to congratulate her on her appointment to the Green Advisory Board Member for EcoFashionWeek in B.C.
- EcoFashionWorld: Here you’ll find great, green fashion trends from around the globe. Well, OK mostly from the U.S. and Canada, but we’re sure they’ll branch out.
- Ecouterre: An online magazine about the future of sustainable fashion. Their tweets often have a bit of humor, which is always welcome in our book.
- EthicalStyle: Not much for conversation, but you’ll find plenty of links to their blog articles about the latest happenings in eco-fashion.
- FashionMeGreen: While just getting started, we’re really enjoying the links behind this Twitter stream. As they say, this is “where style goes green.”
- GreenByDesign: If there’s only room for one eco-freindly fashion source on your Twitter feed, then it should be GreenByDesign. A rich source of great stories and conversation. Unlike so many other large blogs, the tweeple behind Green By Design’s Twitter feed actually interact online. Nice.
- GretaEagan: This woman gets around and shares her fashion insights as well as a bit of herself. Don’t know about you, but we think Greta has just the right mix of personal and professional tweets. And she seems to be a wonder at finding thrift store treasures.
- UniformProject: Last year Sheena proved to the world that you can wear one dress every day and still be the picture of style. Not only did Sheena keep us all updated on what she was wearing, but used Twitter and other social media to increase awareness and raise over $100,000 for a good cause–schools for kids in India. Year two kicked off on August 1. You won’t want to miss any of the UP’s tweets.
Of course, we also want to recognize the green fashion retailers. Here’s a list of the ones we follow on Twitter:
- A Lot To Say is online*
- CargoRoyale in Vancouver
- ChooseSpun in Mercer Island, Washington
- CounterCouture in Minneapolis
- EcologiqueSD in San Diego
- InterfaceFLOR is online, and OK, not exactly fashion, but makes our homes more fashionable and greener too.
- JulieApple is online*
- looptworks in Portland, Oregon
- RESTORE_NYC in New York City
Just a bit of full disclosure: A Lot To Say and JulieApple both use AirDye technology. Hopefully more on this list will be soon too!
No doubt we’ve missed oddles of Tweeting greenies. Who are your favorite eco-fashion people and brands on Twitter? We’d love to know so we can add them to our eco fashion and design Twitter list.
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