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'Do you realize that you have mostly been writing about wedding dresses and baby things since I asked you to marry me?' M.A. commented the other day. I was shocked, but realized it was true: my time of eco fashion adventures seems light years awa |
Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:15:55 -0800
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Lately I have been suffering from ethical anxiety: I doubt what effect my efforts to live green really have on the wider world. Maybe it is the falling leafs, the darker days and a cold that keeps on bugging me, but I need some reflection. What |
Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:26:11 -0800
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Whenever we have something that we are good at - something we care about - that experience and passion fundamentally changes the nature of our first impression. When we are outside our areas of expertise, our reactions remain shallow, they are ha |
Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:09:26 -0700
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M.A. and I have several disagreements when it comes to his wardrobe but one is the biggest. It's called fleece. Ever since I know him, his fleece-fetishism has really bothered me. Because fleece is ugly, unflattering and not eco at all. At least, |
Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:19:07 -0700
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Lucky me that I had become iPhonized just one day before our baby was born! It allowed me to send instant messages to those close including images of the wonder that had burst into our world. In the past few weeks I have developed a clear addict |
Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:03:17 -0700
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I have a confession to make: I bought a new knit today. It was the first time I was in town after the birth. I was only there to buy these special eco diapers when it suddenly attracted me like a magnet. I had just admired the window display of t |
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:51:11 -0700
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What do you do when you marry a girl who is a passionate eco fashionista? Who gets you a second hand shirt as a very first present and believes she has treated you? Who convinces you that it's better to buy tomatoes that are three times as expens |
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:00:00 -0700
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'My big example is my aunt because she is a topmanager in Holland, is married to a handsome, succesful doctor, has three great kids, has always been able to negotiate a four day working week in which she fits all the tasks her senior - male - co |
Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:52:51 -0700
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Our son is almost four weeks old and we have already had our share of embarrassing moments. Like last week in our favourite Italian restaurant where there was no space to change him but on the table. Although it went quick and easy with our fabul |
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:20:03 -0700
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'Cleaning should be done when in the right mood for it'.
What greater thing there is than the touch of crispy fresh sheets on the bed? The look of a shiny fridge? The smell of a basket full of organic fruit? The sound of a dyson that zooms th |
Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0700
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''When I was pregnant, I kept on taking showers and washing my hair, just to be ready for thé moment. It took longer than I thought and I started reading this great book of a woman who sailed around the world on her own. Her story was so fas |
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:40:17 -0700
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As my belly is growing, so is the amount of gifts we receive from friends and family. Hoping to inspire others to give green gifts to soon-to-be-mommies-and-daddies, I love to spotlight all the cute things that have given our home an instant baby-m |
Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:56:04 -0700
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'With The HUB, we want to create an eco-system of social-entrepreneurs. A place where they can connect, interact and invent new ways of doing business as unusual'. What a pleasure it was to hear so much about The HUB last week. First during a HUB |
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:00:00 -0700
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Yesterday Switzerland won the match against Spain and the whole city was a madhouse. I had to cancel a meeting because of the continuous horning of the cars, the yelling of people dressed in Swiss flags and the beer bottles that were thrown on th |
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:46:31 -0700
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A warm summer's day, a bunch of colleagues in the office talking about research, projects and strategy meetings. During lunch I can't help myself but say: 'Girls, I have a need to see the new Sex in the City movie, just to get away from all this. |
Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:48:42 -0700
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When we came back from Canada last month, we carried one big wish with us: to make and learn more about Brazilian music, M.A. playing the guitar and me as a singer. We thought it would be quite hard, because we're in German speaking Switzerland w |
Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:34:12 -0700
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Tue, 25 May 2010 22:01:00 -0700
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I haven't been writing much these days because I feel I'm pursuing a new degree: one on 'how to become a mom'. It is truly amazing how much information I have been trying to digest lately. On complications I had, on pregnancy yoga, midwifes, doc |
Sat, 15 May 2010 01:00:00 -0700
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‘How humbling is it to learn something you don’t know’.
It is six years ago I started off in eco fashion and a lot has happened since. It is a privilege to not just be a participant in this movement, but also a researcher |
Sun, 09 May 2010 01:00:00 -0700
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‘My baby is 99% organic’.
The other day I attended an interesting presentation on how young mothers increasingly choose to consume organic products. The research showed that women often take a leading role in deciding on the purc |
Sat, 01 May 2010 01:00:00 -0700
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I am in the blessed position that I meet inspiring people wherever I go. People that make me think and reflect, take action, people who challenge me and tickle my curiosity. These are some of the people who make a difference to me:
One of my |
Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:00:00 -0700
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After three months in Canada I was so much looking forward seeing my friends and family back home. But this immense cloud seems to darken my sky at the moment, making it impossible for me to fly to Amsterdam this weekend. So while I consider my |
Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:00:00 -0700
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‘The Colony’ is the name of the spring ’10 collection of one of my favourite eco designers, Ada Zanditon. Today I was watching the video interview I did with her in which she narrates how she came to this collection, inspired b |
Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:00:00 -0700
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I saw whales this week! While working in Vancouver, we managed to take a one day trip off the coast of Vancouver Island to go whale watching. And it was amazing! First we spotted a rare grey whale who was hanging out in a small bay next to the ci |
Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:31:27 -0700
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After writing 90 blogs for this website, I would love to involve you in what I write about! Do you prefer my personal blogs like the ones on my eco wedding last summer? Or rather the blogs related to my research like these ones on shecopreneursh |
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:11:13 -0700
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‘Don’t buy clothes! Stop all consumerism! Why not protect this gift of life while we have it? Maybe surprisingly, it was Vivienne Westwood saying this after presenting her last collection during London Fashion Week in February.
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Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:29:19 -0800
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‘There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness’ (Mahatma Gandhi)
The great thing about working with students around the world who do research on ethical fashion, is the free flowing inspiration. The ot |
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:42:52 -0800
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There was a time in my life that I was close to another man than M.A. We had a great relationship and lots of fun, but then I fell in love with eco fashion. What started as a hobby grew into a community, a foundation and eventually a business. I wo |
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:41:44 -0800
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Me: ‘Goodmorning everyone!’
(silence)
Me: ‘Hi there! ’
(silence)
Me: ‘How are you? ’
(silence)
Me: ‘Is it normal that people don’t greet each other when they step in the elevator?&rsquo |
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800
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Canada is home to more than a handful of amazing eco designers and last week I got the chance to see some of their work. In Ottawa, designers Bridget and Christina found it challenging to find suitable venues to sell their own handcrafted products |
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:20:37 -0800
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Karl Weick already said it decades ago: organizations exist to keep people busy. Organizations have ‘borders’ which theoretically separates the entity from its environment and within these borders, members adhere to rules from above. |
Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800
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The sun shines, the moon glows,
the tides rise, the rain falls
-and a new baby is welcomed to our spinning world.
(Debra Frasier)
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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:32:59 -0800
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Aesthetics are the essence of each brand in our eco fashion world. They embody an entrepreneur’s unique artistic identity and are mirrored in the artefacts she creates. For me, this was always the scariest part of presenting my work in fash |
Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:24:08 -0800
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A bare space with plastic tables and chairs. Large windows overlooking the parking lot. Elderly people bent over their burgers. A menu that doesn’t wet my appetite at all. But I promised M.A. we would try it. To have lunch at Wendy’s. |
Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:11:12 -0800
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'We had veggies, potato and Valess tonight, so we're really on the bio track now', my brother said the other day. Big question marks???? This to me sounded like the most ordinary Dutch dish you can imagine, not specifically eco at all. It was on |
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:58:26 -0800
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I can't believe myself, but I just did it. I bought pyjamas. The one thing I had never thought I would buy. But I did it. They're lying on the table grinning at me. Like if they say 'Got-ya!'
Pyjamas are dull, not flattering, baggy, often h |
Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:40:35 -0800
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What do you do when you want to discover the one country that remains a blank spot on the world map? A country we only hear about when it comes to missile launches and captured journalists rescued by Bill Clinton? What happens when you realize th |
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:05:40 -0800
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'Viva la Boheme' is the slogan of ecofashion store iki-M that I visited just before Christmas. And that is definitely how I felt the whole week, travelling through winter wonder Germany and Austria. While the snow covered Alpine landscape entice |
Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:06:04 -0800
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If ethical fashion is 'in fashion', then what happens when it's 'out of fashion'? Thorstein Veblen saw (1899) saw fashion as the way to promote conspicuous consumption and contrasted it to valuable productivity. Looking at the amount of emails I |
Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:03:15 -0800
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Last week the Swiss people voted to ban the building of minarets which caused a huge uprise. My friends´response was to combine their Balkan party with some pro-Islam elements. The pre-party movie screening featured a film on the Balkan wa |
Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:31:50 -0800
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Urbany, maturalism, (f)luxury, profile myning and embedded generosity: terminology that denotes some of the major trends for 2010. Whether you're an enthused entrepreneur, a rhapsodical researcher or a curious con/transumer (or maybe all three?) |
Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:14:02 -0800
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It’s raining. Again. Funny how rain always makes things look ugly. It makes buildings grey and gruesome. It makes people frown and act grumpy. Only nature looks good when it’s raining: drops are little diamants on leaves that appear |
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:18:10 -0800
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As the leaves are falling, many of us long for some tenderness and warmth. Climate change makes our temperature rise and for those who need other teasers, there is plenty of inspiration nowadays. One could start with watching Angry Green Girls |
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:47:06 -0800
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What inspired me this week?
The oikos students who told me about their ethical fashion projects in Prague and Reims;
The intriguing mural art in Belfast;
The plans to open The Hub in Zürich;
The new Spring/Summer collection |
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:16:43 -0700
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Ireland's economic growth evolved around the linen industry in the 19th century. During the Troubles the last few decades, the country suffered tremendously and the linen industry declined in a rapid pace. While there used to be buildings full o |
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:12:33 -0700
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'And you know what, D&G - no not Dolce & Gabbana as you might think - need to work together. Only through collaboration they can really transform the industry'. This was the hypothesis I had a month ago, before I had spoken to Goliaths l |
Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:35:40 -0700
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'We need to sell the process through the product and not the product through the process'. This is the sentence I woke up with this morning after three dynamic days of interviewing at Ethical Fashion Show in Paris. Veja is a company that does th |
Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0700
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Please close your eyes, inhale deeply and imagine where you want us to be in ten years from now. What is your dreamed image of the future of organic textiles? Can you connect a word or symbol to that projection? What would it be?
This is h |
Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:36:27 -0700
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Want to be an ethical fashionista? Don't buy any clothes! This provocative statement shows the creative tension between ethics and the fashion industry as a consumer-driven business. I look forward sharing ideas on this double-bind I often find |
Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:17:08 -0700
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People often ask me what I wear and if it's really all ethical. Confession: it's not. Or at least: not yet for maybe 5% of my wardrobe. Since I started working in ethical fashion five years ago, I promised myself to only buy green. So today I ha |
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:00:00 -0700
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