recycling
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Robot Wins Halloween Contest!
Thank you to Kim who submitted this adorable picture of Madison as a robot using a camp pan, dryer duct, and metallic skirt from Goodwill! So creative! Congratulations you won a $50 gift certificate to your local DC Goodwill Store. Will you use it for your Halloween costume this year? There’s one week left to [...]
Tags: DC Goodwill, Goodwill Retail Store, goodwill store, Halloween, recycling, reusable, robot, thrift
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Ask The Fashionista: Goodwill Gone Green?
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Fashion Trends, trunk show
We get many questions here, dear readers, regarding Goodwill “green” initiatives. Regular readers know that your intrepid DCGF has travelled to the DC Green Festival, announced DC Goodwill’s computer recycling program, scoped out the coolest in eco-friendly home furnishings, and always makes sure you’re the first to know about the hottest new green designers and [...]
Tags: Eco Chic, eco-friendly, green, Inauguration, recycling, Travelin' Trunk Show
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Friday Furnishings: It’s Trunk Show Time!
Big announcement, dear readers: the DCGF can reveal to you exclusively that our first Travelin’ Trunk Show of the year will be on Saturday, January 17th at Greater Goods on U Street! And we’re coupling it with a donation drive, so all of you Dupont Circle/Shaw/Columbia Heights folks who don’t have a chance to make [...]
Tags: Ask The Fashionista, eco-friendly, recycling, trunk show
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Friday Furnishings: Drink Up!
If you’re anything like me, you’ll be throwing tons of parties this holiday season. Wait, scratch that. If you’re actually anything like me, you’ll be throwing zero parties this holiday season (Entertaining is hard, said Barbie), maybe attending a couple, but secretly wishing that you had the magical ability to put together some fabulous soiree [...]
Tags: CB2, eco-friendly, Friday Furnishings, parties, recycling, Teroforma
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The "Not It" Bag
Oh, my what a busy weekend, dear readers! As you know, the DCGF was awash in eco-friendliness at the DC Green Festival. We knew our “turn a t-shirt into a reusable shopping bag” project would be fun, but we didn’t know it would be darn near the most popular project at the festival. Over 130 [...]
Tags: bags, Ella Vickers, Lowepro, R.E.Load, recycling
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Eco Chic Saturday – October 25
New feature alert! Starting today and continuing every Saturday, the DCGF is bringing you the latest and greatest in Eco Chic from a collection of blogs across the Interwebs. As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve added a new badge and updates on the left column. And on Saturdays I’ll feature a roundup from that group’s best [...]
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Reduce, Reuse…Reconnect
Just when you’d given up on finding a place that would accept that old Intel486-driven computer (It’s still in the basement, right? Admit it!) along comes the Dell-Goodwill Reconnect partnership. Yippee! Let me explain: participating Goodwill donation centers in certain parts of the country – including, of course, the DC Metro Area beginning today – [...]
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Everything Old Is New Again
So I was hanging out at the House of Sweden on Friday night, dear readers, to check out a fashion show put on by Nudie Jeans. I’d heard of the brand just in passing and wasn’t particularly interesting in their actual jeans, but rather in the promise of “18th century Swedish costumes made out of [...]
Tags: American Apparel, Gaiam, Nudie Jeans, Patagonia, recycling, thrifting, Worn Again
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Man vs. Machine
On May 25, Bill Ellison died. Who is Bill Ellison, you ask? He founded Value Village. I mention this because Value Village, Unique Thrift, and the ilk often show up on this blog, in the form of Blog the Blogger responses and in the comments section (see Monday’s post, for example). For many shoppers, all [...]
Tags: Goodwill, recycling, thrifting, Value Village
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Be Good to Your Mother
I know, I know, dear readers, Mother’s Day was weeks ago. But I’m not talking about your actual mother, I’m talking about Mother Earth. Yeah, it’s kinda silly, I guess, but doesn’t it sound better than always saying, “Go Green” or “Be Eco-Friendly”? I just need a little variety, that’s all. But I know that [...]
Tags: Barneys, Ecologic Designs, Leroy and Perry, Lutz and Patmos, recycling