Safia Minney, founder of People Tree People Tree is a fair trade clothing company based in the U.K. It was founded in Tokyo, Japan by Safia Minney in 1991. ‘People Tree began as a clothing catalog which featured hand woven and natural dyed hand bags, clothing, and clogs made by women from Bangladesh…The initial start up was incredibly difficult as it was the first of its kind. Safia once said, ‘When I started out, I wasn’t very realistic on how difficult it would be to...

Ah, Pinterest, the magical digital landscape full of ideas, inspiration, and products. From recipes to cleaning advice, to tutorials on changing engine oil or crocheting a rug from old t-shirts, Pinterest is the internet’s favorite place to be. What we love most about Pinterest is that it’s an impressive visual search engine. We search ‘Eco-Friendly DIY’ and a tantalizing array of pictures, tutorial, articles, and videos pop up. Even more obscure searches such as...

Of all the rooms in the household, the kitchen probably uses the most energy and generates the most waste. Food Waste Food alone accounts for 14.6% of the total waste created by Americans. That is an atrocious, staggeringly huge amount of waste. That is 37,084,000 TONS of wasted food–74.2 BILLION pounds! Does that shock you? But food scraps and food waste is only part of the kitchen waste problem. What about paper waste? Plastic waste? According to the EPA, paper waste accounts for...