Green Cotton

Green Cotton has some exciting news to announce: this week, we are joining up with 9 other fantastic eco-blogs to form a collective group entitled EcoChic Weekly.

EcoChic Weekly aims to bring you the best, most relevant and interesting information and material in eco-fashion and lifestyle all at once– so you don’t have to dig around on the web for it. Once per week, I will post a summary of each of our members’ top weekly posts. If you are interested in taking a sneak peak at who we are, please see the left sidebar under the EcoChic Weekly badge (like the one above). I will also go through this in detail next week.

As such, I would take this opportunity to (re) introduce Green Cotton to new and existing readers and provide an overview of what we are all about.

Green Cotton is a blog about eco-fashion and sustainability. We focus on:

* Organic fibers (especially organic cotton, but also wool, cashmere and hemp)
* Sustainable fibers such as bamboo, soy, silk, and jute
* Eco-fashion trends, styles and issues
* Companies, pioneering individuals
* Fair trade production and sourcing
* Farming issues, new technologies and more

Three hot areas of focus for us in the last several months have been:

1)    Bamboo: taking a look at the pros and cons of bamboo fabric. See our series of posts: Bamboo resources, Bamboo processing I, and Bamboo Processing II for more on this topic.

2)    Organic vs. Conventional Cotton: For example, how much is the market growing? What is the difference between conventional and organic cotton?

3)    Hot style trends from the lens of  eco-fashion. We tracked the NY Fashion Week and London Fashion week, so if your interested in the latest style trends from the masters with insights on greening these trends, we encourage you to check out those posts.

We encourage you to check these posts out to get a sense of our content. Also recently we did a series on green celebrities (and how green they really are), organic denim, organic vs. synthetic dying and more on synthetic dyes, lingerie, and a variety of other textiles such as jute and hemp.

We look forward to connecting with you and hearing from you at greencottonblog@gmail.com. Sign up for our RSS feed, too! Stay tuned next week for our first official EcoChic Weekly post.

Over the weekend, Green Cotton underwent some significant upgrades that I am very excited about and would like to share with you:

1)    Green Cotton’s new domain. We switched to a new host so now we have the exclusive domain of www.greencottonblog.com.

2)    If you were using an RSS feed for Green Cotton, please resubscribe to this new site. The original Wordpress hosted blog (http://greencotton.wordpress.com) will no longer be updated.

3)    We added the ‘Add to Any’ feature to individual posts. In line with the latest media sharing tools, Green Cotton now has the capability for readers to share any of the posts with whomever they like using social networking and media bookmarking tools (such as del.icio.us, Facebook, Digg, MySpace and others). Pick the one of your choice. Please check out this feature (at the bottom of every post) and let us know what you think.

4)    Green Cotton joins Facebook. There is now a Green Cotton group on Facebook devoted to building an online community interested in eco-fashion and sustainability. While this group is an extension of the blog – (e.g., sharing snip-its of various posts we do) it will also include much more. There is a discussion board, the wall, and we want this group to be interactive. We want to hear from you. Join up and let us know what you think– what issues should be covered etc. The discussion topic of the day is on Factory Green and web 2.0 hitting the apparel industry – tell us what you think.

5)    The other place to check us out on Facebook is the Green Cotton page. This page is a great place to get up to date info on the blog and find out about new articles and companies we are reading about.  Come join us!

One of Green Cotton’s goals is to foster an online community passionate about the environment, fashion, style and sustainability. We’d love to hear from you– through our comments board, email, on facebook or elsewhere). Tell us what is on your mind and what’s new or hot in your neck of the woods.

Green Cotton is a website to gather, review, analyze and publish information on the eco-apparel industry. Not limited to green or organic cotton, the site includes posts on all emerging eco-friendly fabrics, products, stores and individuals. Green Cotton includes information on bamboo, soy, jute, hemp, ramie, and recycled fabrics in addition to organic cotton. Factors that contribute to successful companies including the pioneering individuals are also featured.

Please send your comments and questions to: Greencottonblog@gmail.com