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Where to Find Eco-Friendly Clothing in San Francisco

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The Jenny Dress in organic cotton by Juleselin is available at Eco Citizen.

Photography courtesy of Eco Citizen

It’s officially Earth Day today, but shouldn’t everyday be an earth day? Where your wardrobe is concerned, it’s easy to make that happen at these top eco-friendly San Francisco shops and boutiques:

Eco Citizen: Fair trade, eco-conscious fashions from such designers as EDUN, Loomstate, Linda Loudermilk and Del Forte Denim are on display at this Russian Hill boutique.

Ali Hewson on Fair Trade Fashion, Motherhood and Celebrity

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The Ashanti tunic from Edun

Photography courtesy of Edun

For a rock star’s wife and co-founder of a coveted fashion label, Ali Hewson is surprisingly down-to-earth, both literally and figuratively. She’s quick to illustrate the latest from Edun, the socially-responsible label she and husband Bono launched in 2005, by standing up to show us the folds of her own drapey black sweater as tactile proof of the spring collection’s soft, easy-going attitude.

Feast of Burden

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If this is utopia, then why does shopping for dinner require a sustainable support group?

by Sara Deseran

posted March 26, 2007 12:05PM

If this is utopia, then why does shopping for dinner require a sustainable support group?It always starts out so innocently. There I am, doing my weekly shopping at Good Life Grocery, my neighborhood store in Bernal Heights. One of two Good Lifes in the city, it’s locally owned and has a respectably crunchy name. It’s the kind of place where the clerks grab a few non-transfat animal crackers from the bulk bins to give to my kids. I wave to a few friendly neighbors, get a cart, throw some sesame bagels in a bag, wheel around to the meat-and-fish counter—and immediately, my happy-go-lucky soundtrack comes to a record-scratching stop.