Discover the most sumptuous sustainable winter accessories to keep you warm and toasty.
With fall officially here and cold weather edging ever closer, it’s time to embrace some knitted accessories. From sustainable gloves to second-skin essentials like fair trade scarves and beanies, we’ve curated a list of consciously made warm accessories to cozy up with.
But, what counts as sustainable gloves, beanies, and scarves?
Many factors help us determine if a brand is offering sustainable winter accessories, but the key component we’ve placed importance on to create this guide is natural fibers.
Far too many knitwear options are available in the form of synthetic acrylics masquerading as woolens. Cheaper than its natural counterpart, acrylics are a problematic polymer-based fiber that won’t biodegrade, isn’t breathable, not to mention has a plastic-like feel. And let’s face it, there are better ways to preserve your body heat in winter.
We have found a set of brands for you that offer a blend of breathable natural fibers like wool in its many forms like Merino, Alpaca, or cashmere that come from cruelty-free and recycled sources. Some of the brands we’ve featured in this guide also offer knitted organic cotton gloves, scarves, and beanies that are known for their excellent thermoregulating properties.
Materials aside, the winter accessories we’ve found are also ethically produced and encourage the slow art of artisanal knitting. In fact, you can also choose to participate in the slow fashion practice of knitting this winter by making your own scarves, mittens, and beanies with DIY kits from the likes of We Are Knitters, or if you’re a seasoned sewist, you can pick some sustainable yarns from this guide.
After all, these cold-weather accessories are investment items you’ll hold onto for the long haul and even share with your partner owing to their unisex appeal.
And now without further ado, your destination for the add-ons you need to weather the cold season in style has arrived. From sustainable statement scarves and gloves to must-have beanies — discover it all here.
Price Range Key:
$ = Most products less than $100
$$ = Most products $100 – $200
$$$ = Most products $200+
Where to Find Sustainable Gloves, Beanies, and Scarves:
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1. Organic Basics
Categories: Scarves, Beanies | Conscious Qualities: GOTS Certified Organic, Global Recycled Standard Certified, Pays Fair Wages, Supply Chain Transparency, Philanthropic | Price Range: $
Danish brand Organic Basics offers a colorful range of warm weather accessories that will infuse instant street cred into any outfit. Full of logo-emblazoned pieces in earthy hues, you’ll find beanies, scarves, snoods, and even a balaclava to keep you snuggled up this season. They’ve even got some leg warmers in case you’d like to throw it back to the ’80s. Their organic cotton scarves and beanies are blended with a small percentage of recycled synthetics for added durability and come with a detailed carbon footprint report.
2. tentree
Categories: Beanies | Conscious Qualities: Certified B Corp, Responsible Wool Standard Certified, Ethical Production, Circular, Reforestation Program, Transparent Supply Chain | Price Range: $
Offering the coziest companions for some added warmth this winter, tentree’s beanies will have you dreaming of an outdoor adventure with its earthy hues and scenic design details. The beanies come knitted with a four-way stretch to provide maximum comfort around the head that’s crafted from materials like organic cotton and RWS-certified wool.
3. Colorful Standard
Categories: Scarves, Beanies | Conscious Qualities: Recycled Wool, Low Waste Practices, Pays Fair Wages | Price Range: $
Just as its namesake suggests, Colorful Standard offers an extensive collection of winter accessories in just about any color of your liking. So much so, that you can even shop by color to find a delectable hue ranging from soft pastels to highly saturated solids. Their collection of recycled wool scarves and beanies achieve their vibrant colors using OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 Certified dyes that have been thoroughly tested for harmful chemicals. We might suggest getting a light and dark beanie and scarf pairing of the same color to achieve an intriguing monochrome look.
4. PANGAIA
Categories: Gloves, Balaclavas, Scarves, Beanies | Conscious Qualities: Certified B Corp, Ethical Production, Transparent Supply Chain, Philanthropic, Reforestation Program | Price Range: $
Known for its elevated loungewear and innovative efforts with material science, PANGAIA offers an impressive range of sustainable winter accessories that’ll make a serious style statement. Prioritizing thermoregulation and sustainability with materials like recycled cashmere and NATIVA
certified regenerative Merino wool, these accessories will go the extra mile in keeping you warm.
5. Frank And Oak
Categories: Mittens, Scarves, Beanies | Conscious Qualities: Certified B Corp, Philanthropic, Ethical Production, Transparent Supply Chain | Price Range: $
Based in Canada, Frank And Oak’s collection will evoke all the cozy winter vibes with their fuzzy accessories. Available in neutral earthy hues that have unmissable textural details, their winter add-ons are made using materials like non-mulesed Merino wool, Yak wool, organic cotton, and Seawool® that’s made from recycled polyester and oyster shell composites. You can even grab a matching pair of sustainable beanies and mittens to make adding the finishing touches to your outfit a lot easier.
6. The Knotty Ones
Categories: Mittens, Scarves, Beanies | Conscious Qualities: Women-owned, Small Batch Production, Slow Fashion, Pays Living Wages | Price Range: $$
The Knotty Ones is a close-knit sisterhood founded by three women who work with female knitters in Lithuania. These talented knitters meticulously handcraft their collection of warm clothes and accessories, some of which feature details like embroidery using leftover yarn which ensures that no two pieces are identical. You’ll find an assortment of handmade options made from alpaca wool, Merino wool, and cashmere. The brand also offers small knitted charms that can be pinned to your gloves, scarves, and beanies for an added touch of playfulness.
7. LANIUS
Categories: Gloves, Scarves, Beanies | Conscious Qualities: Woman-owned, Slow Fashion, GOTS Certified Organic, Circular, Transparent Supply Chain, Funds Climate Protection Projects | Price Range: €
For those of you who want to make a serious style statement this winter and stay warm while you’re at it, then German slow fashion brand LANIUS is offering an array of sumptuous sustainable scarves, gloves, and beanies made from alpaca, and Merino wool, along with a blend of wool and organic cotton, these accessories come in chunky and fuzzy knitted textures to help you make a unique choice. They also offer knitted headbands that’ll add a boho accent to your look.
8. Eileen Fisher
Categories: Gloves, Scarves, Beanies | Conscious Qualities: Woman-owned, Pays Living Wages, Circular, Low-waste Practices | Price Range: $$
If you’re on the lookout for an investment-worthy accessory that’ll see you through many winters, then look no further. Eileen Fisher’s collection of warm accouterments will instantly exude an air of elegance every time you sport them.
Crafted from sumptuous natural materials like alpaca, cashmere, silk, and Merino wool to name a few, their range of sustainable winter gloves, beanies, and scarves come in solid hues that are versatile enough for easy pairing. They also offer organic cotton beanies for those of you who prefer headgear with less hair-raising static.
9. ASKET
Conscious Qualities: Circular, Pays Living Wages, Supply Chain Transparency, | Categories: Scarves, Beanies | Price Range: $
ASKET makes shopping for a warm accessory an easy affair with its elegantly understated collection of beanies and scarves. Available in no more than four to five neutral hues and two knit styles and sizes per accessory, you’ll be sure to feel cozy no matter what you choose from their range of recycled cashmere and cruelty-free Merino wool pieces.
What’s more? You can even peruse through the price breakdown, carbon footprint, and trace the origin of an item to get deeply acquainted with your potential purchase.
10. Another Tomorrow
Categories: Scarves, Beanies | Conscious Qualities: Woman-owned, Certified B Corp, Pays Living Wages, Circular, Supply Chain Transparency, Philanthropic | Price Range: $$$
If monochrome styling is something you enjoy when layering up for the cold, then Another Tomorrow has some elevated accessory pairings for you. These accessories are crafted from recycled cashmere yarn reconditioned from post-consumer sweaters to maintain all the softness of virgin cashmere. Once purchased, customers can simply scan the QR code on their swing tag to take a closer look at the provenance of their product taking them on a virtual journey from farm-to-material-to-factory.
Some Final Notes on Caring for Your Sustainable Beanies, Gloves, and Scarves…
To take better care of your natural or recycled woolen, we highly recommend getting a pilling comb to get rid of the small fuzzy balls that form over repeated use.
And that nasty hair-raising static? Wool dryer balls or crumpled-up aluminum foil balls tossed in the dryer can help reduce static immensely.
About The Author:
Jharna Pariani is a fashion writer and creative strategist whose work is rooted in honesty and deep observation of the world around her. When she isn’t busy penning down her thoughts, she moonlights as a video editor creating fashion and food reels on Instagram for several brands and influencers
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This week’s quote is from American novelist and pioneering environmentalist Edward Abbey: “I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.”
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We are constantly bombarded by messages that tell us we need more stuff to be happy. The average American household contains around 300,000 items. The average home size has roughly tripled since the 1950s, and we still rent self-storage units by the millions to hold the overflow.
If you are rethinking your relationship to consumer culture – whether by choice or necessity – we’ve rounded up a list of books to make breaking up with consumerism and easier to understand which of our purchases are really necessary.
(Amazon links are provided for convenience. Your local library and independent bookstore are excellent first stops.)
Empire of Things
by Frank Trentmann
Trentmann’s sweeping 2016 history follows material culture from late Ming China and Renaissance Italy through to today’s global supply chains. He shows that consumerism is not a recent American export but a centuries-long international phenomenon, one that has reshaped households, cities, and the planet.
Empire of Things is dense but never preachy, and it gives readers the long view needed to understand what we are actually pushing back against.
No Logo – 10th Anniversary Edition
by Naomi Klein
No Logo was a movement manifesto when it appeared in 1999, and its dissection of branding, sweatshop labor, and corporate cultural takeover reads as prescient now that nearly every screen on earth is an ad surface. To take the next step, pair this read with Klein’s more recent argument about capitalism and ecological collapse, How To Change Everything.
The Conscious Closet
by Elizabeth L. Cline
Cline first exposed the human and environmental costs of fast fashion in Overdressed (2012). The Conscious Closet is the practical follow-up: how to clean out, repair, swap, and rebuild a wardrobe without funding the industry that produces an estimated 92 million tons of textile waste each year. It is the most actionable book on this list for anyone with a closet.
The Myths of Happiness
by Sonja Lyubomirsky
Psychology professor Sonja Lyubomirsky brings the receipts. In The Myths of Happiness, she walks through decades of research showing that material milestones — the raise, the upgrade, the bigger house — produce short bursts of satisfaction that fade quickly. What actually sustains wellbeing is rarely for sale. A clarifying read for anyone tempted to outshop their way to contentment.
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
by Jenny Odell
Waste is coming for our minds, too. Odell argues that our scarcest resource is attention — and that the platforms we use have turned it into the raw material of a trillion-dollar industry. How to Do Nothing is not a digital-detox manual; it is a case for reclaiming attention as a political act, with consequences for everything from bird-watching to civic life. More relevant in 2026 than when it was published in 2019.
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
by Jason Hickel
Economic anthropologist Jason Hickel makes the case that endless GDP growth is incompatible with a livable planet, and that “green growth” is mostly a marketing exercise. Less Is More (2020) traces 500 years of capitalism and lays out what a degrowth economy could actually look like — one organized around human and ecological flourishing rather than perpetual expansion. The book has helped move degrowth from the margins of academia into the mainstream of the climate debate.
The Day the World Stops Shopping
by J.B. MacKinnon
Journalist J.B. MacKinnon designed The Day the World Stops Shopping (2021) as a thought experiment — what would happen if global consumption dropped by 25%? — and then watched the pandemic run a version of the experiment in real time. He travels from Namibian hunter-gatherer communities to American big-box retail, talking to economists, ecologists, and CEOs. The result is one of the most readable accounts of why we shop, why we cannot easily stop, and what we would gain if we did.
Consumed: The Need for Collective Change
by Aja Barber
Writer and consultant Aja Barber connects fashion, colonialism, and climate in Consumed (2021), a debut that has become a touchstone for the ethical fashion conversation. Where Cline writes as a practitioner, Barber writes as a systems critic, tracing the textile trade’s roots in slavery and racial inequality and asking readers to confront why we fill emotional gaps with purchases. Pointed, generous, and built to be read in two sittings.
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
If consumerism is the input, waste is the output we work hardest not to see. Award-winning journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis follows that output across continents in Wasteland (2023) — from New Delhi’s landfills and Ghana’s secondhand clothing markets to nuclear storage sites and the corporate origins of curbside recycling. Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Kirkus, it is essential reading for anyone who has ever wondered where “away” actually goes.
Fixation: How to Have Stuff Without Breaking the Planet
by Sandra Goldmark
Sandra Goldmark runs a pop-up repair shop in New York and serves as director of sustainability at Barnard College. Fixation (2020) is her plainspoken case for getting things fixed instead of replaced, and for building a circular economy where good design, reuse, and repair are the default. Her five-rule formula — borrowed in spirit from Michael Pollan — is the most quotable advice on this list: “Have good stuff. Not too much. Mostly reclaimed. Care for it. Pass it on.”
What You Can Do
Reading is a start, not a finish. A few next steps:
- Start at the library. Most of these titles are available through WorldCat or your local branch. Borrowing keeps a book in circulation and out of a landfill.
- Audit one category of stuff before adding to it. Pick clothes, kitchenware, or electronics. Inventory what you already own before the next purchase. Most of us own more than we remember.
- Find a repair option in your community. Take the time to locate repair, reuse, and donation outlets near you before tossing anything broken.
- Support right-to-repair policy. Several U.S. states have passed right-to-repair laws since 2023; the rest are weighing them. Individual purchasing choices matter more when manufacturers are required to make repair possible.
- Read one of these books and talk about it. Anti-consumption is harder alone. Book clubs, mutual-aid groups, and faith communities have all become surprising hubs for this work.
Editor’s Note: Originally authored by Gemma Alexander on June 18, 2020, this article was updated in May 2026.
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Best of Sustainability In Your Ear: EarthX CEO Peter Simek on Cultivating Bipartisan Climate Strategies
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For 15 years, the Dallas-based climate conference the EarthX conference has created space where fossil fuel executives and environmental activists, Republican appropriations chairs and Democratic climate hawks, find common ground. The organization targets three core stakeholders: the corporate world, policymakers, and investors seeking startups where environmental solutions are baked into the bottom line. Peter Simek, EarthX’s CEO, explains how reframing climate action around shared values—stewardship, economic opportunity, and love of the land—unlocks support that crisis messaging alone cannot reach.
The doom story doesn’t sell, Simek explained. “We’re not motivated as a species by doomsday language. It puts people in fight-or-flight mode.” He points out how climate became an identity issue, tangled up in culture-war debates over hamburgers and gas-powered trucks, when the real conversation should center on clean air, clean water, and protecting the places we love. “The EPA and the Clean Air and Clean Water Act were passed during the Nixon administration,” he notes. “There are ways to message this that appeals across lines.”
Simek bets heavily on bottom-up action as EarthX works to build bridges. States, cities, and private capital often move faster than federal mandates, he argues, and they’re harder to reverse with a single executive order. Texas leads the nation in renewable energy deployment because wind and solar make bottom-line sense. “Even as there’s a policy turn against it, there’s still the driving reality that solar and wind are viable energy sources,” he says. A new event in 2026, the EarthX Institute, will focus on two policy priorities: nuclear energy, where bipartisan consensus is growing, and urban biodiversity.
Whether conversations at forums like EarthX translate into policy velocity that matches the pace of climate impacts remains to be seen. Simek says he stays focused on tracking downstream results, specifically the investments funded, the coalitions built, and the policies incubated from the local level up. “It’s about finding those ways in which there’s common sense, common ground, common values,” he says. “Elements to talking about nature and the environment that no one can really disagree with.”
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