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.