Published

12 months ago

March 5, 2025

Alice Rush

To navigate through the sea of earth-minded and socially responsible brands, there are some fabulous sustainable and fair trade online stores handpicking beautiful products for the discerning and mindful shopper.

While the growth of ethical and sustainable fashion and lifestyle products is exciting, this growth has also led to a whole lot of greenwashing and “fair-washing”. That’s why I’ve curated this set of shops that sources truly responsibly-made products you can trust.

That said, the terms “ethical”, “sustainable”, and “conscious” can take on different meanings to different people based upon their own personal value systems, so each site curates and sorts their goods based on standards they specify on their site (such as artisan-made, vegan, eco-friendly, fair trade, BIPOC-owned, etc.).

Each eco-friendly and ethical online shop in this guide offers up something a little different from the next with their aesthetics, ethical criteria, and price point.

Take a peek at the sites included here to find one that suits both your value standards and style!

Note that this guide features affiliates and partners. As always I only include brands that meet high standards for ethics and style!

1. ourCommonplace

With everything from sleepwear to scarves and baskets to bedding ourCommonplace is an amazing curated online marketplace for shopping responsibly-made goods in sustainable fashion and home.

All products in the online shop meet at least two of the following six standards.

BIPOC-Owned: supports inclusive representation in the conscious lifestyle space and helps reduce the racial wealth gap by empowering businesses owned Black, Indigenous, and People of Color brand owners and founders.
Cruelty-free: ensures that no animals were killed, hurt, or tested on in the making of these goods.
Ethical: these are products from brands that follow just production practices such as paying fair wages, ensuring safe working conditions, and more.
Sustainable: brands using earth-minded materials (think natural fibers and recycled materials), processes, and packaging throughout their supply chain.
Toxic-Free: products that have been thoroughly vetted and verified to not contain harsh chemicals.
Women-Owned: supports women entrepreneurship and helps reduce the gender income and business owner representation gaps.

Pro Tip: you can “Shop Your Values” by sorting products by each of their standards using their top menu bar.

Categories: Clothing, Shoes, Accessories, Gifts, Jewelry, Home, Beauty & Personal Care

Browse ourCommonplace

2. DoneGood

As your ethical shopping sidekick, DoneGood connects you with over 120 brands that are as committed to doing good as you are. Each brand on our platform is vetted for fair wages, sustainable materials, and community empowerment, ensuring your purchases contribute positively to people and the planet. By choosing DoneGood, you’re joining a movement that’s reshaping markets to meet the needs of conscious consumers like you.

You can shop by values like:

1% For The Planet Members
Certified B Corporations
Cruelty-Free
Eco-Friendly
Empowers Workers
Recycled/Upcycled
USA Made
Vegan
Women-Owned

Categories: Beauty & Care, Pantry, Clothing, Shoes, Jewelry & Accessories, Home & Living, Travel, Baby & Kid, Pets

Browse DoneGood

3. Earthkind

Earthkind is your go-to online marketplace for sustainable and ethical fashion, bringing together eco-conscious brands from around the globe. Offering a diverse selection of clothing and accessories for both men and women, Earthkind ensures that every product aligns with high standards of sustainability and ethical production. Their criteria includes:

Transparency: Brands must openly share their production processes and sourcing practices to ensure consumers are well-informed.
Fair Labor: Ensuring fair wages and safe working conditions is a prerequisite for all partner brands.
Artisan Craftsmanship: Collaborations with artisans are valued to preserve traditional skills and support local communities.
Organic Materials: Preference is given to brands using organic materials, minimizing environmental impact.
Vegan Products: Offering animal-free products aligns with Earthkind’s commitment to cruelty-free fashion.
Synthetic-Free: Brands that avoid synthetic materials contribute to reducing microplastic pollution.
Circularity: Embracing circular fashion principles, such as recycling and upcycling, is encouraged.

Categories: Clothing, Accessories, Jewelry

Browse Earthkind

4. Rêve En Vert

white linen outfit from slow fashion marketplace Reve En Vert

sustainable jewelry from conscious marketplace Reve En Vert

Rêve En Vert is a premier online platform dedicated to sustainable luxury fashion and lifestyle products. Founded with a commitment to environmental responsibility, the company curates a selection of items that embody both style and sustainability. Their ethos centers on promoting ethical practices within the fashion industry, offering consumers a conscious alternative to mainstream shopping.

Criteria for Selection:

Organic: Prioritizing materials grown without harmful chemicals to protect both the environment and consumer health.
Re-Made: Supporting brands that upcycle or recycle materials, giving new life to existing resources.
Local: Emphasizing products made locally to reduce carbon footprints and support regional craftsmanship.
Fair: Ensuring fair labor practices and ethical treatment of workers throughout the supply chain.

Categories: Clothing, Accessories, Gifts, Lifestyle, Beauty

Browse Rêve en Vert

5. GOODEE

artisan-made scarf in red and brown from fair trade retailer GOODEE

indoor plants from fair trade marketplace GOODEE

GOODEE is a Black-owned certified B-Corp hand-selecting exceptional artisan-made goods for the home. One of the most design-forward and high-quality fair trade online stores around, every product on GOODEE is “transparently sourced, ethically-made, and designed to last.”

Additionally, the home goods and lifestyle brands on GOODEE meet at least a few of the following criteria:

Marginalized Communities: brands that give back a portion of profits or revenue to disenfranchised groups. Poverty Reduction consists of brands that guarantee a living wage and provide opportunities for development and career advancement.
Recycled Materials: brands using up-cycled and repurposed materials. Similarly, the Circular Economy value denotes brands that minimize waste and maximizes resource use. And Water Conservancy indicates which companies are preserving water.
Gender Advocacy: brands encouraging women leadership and actively fighting against workplace gender discrimination.
Corporate Reporting: companies providing transparency reports on their current impact as well as their progress.
Community Engagement: organizations participating in local initiatives and involves employees in company decisions.

Categories: Homewares, Gifts, Accessories

Price: $ – $$$

Browse GOODEE (Black-owned retailer)

6. Ten Thousand Villages

Ten Thousand Villages was a pioneer of fair trade goods and continues to operate with ethical practices at every point of their supply chain. The ethical company has both brick-and-mortar fair trade shops and an online fair trade store for finding all things handmade.

This fair trade store sources their products only from artisan groups that pay living wages and ensure safe working conditions and they make an intentional effort to partner with traditionally marginalized communities. By bringing artisan-made handcrafted goods to a global audience, Ten Thousand Villages is supporting the continuation of traditional crafts and providing sustainable economic opportunities. Today, the social enterprise works with over 20,000 artisan makers in 30 different countries.

Categories: Jewelry, Accessories, Home Goods, Gifts, Holiday Decor

Browse Ten Thousand Villages

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Green Living

Classic Sustainability In Your Ear: The Ocean River Institute’s Natural Lawn Challenge for Climate Action

Published

3 days ago

February 25, 2026

Alice Rush

Turn back the clock with this classic interview that will get you ready for Spring yard care planning. A lawn may be beautiful but it can take a heavy toll on the environment, accounting for between 30% and 60% of residential water use in the United States. Rob Moir, Ph.D., is president and executive director of the Ocean River Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ORI works with residential lawn owners to heal damaged ecosystems by restoring coastal areas to lessen the destructive impacts of climate change. The benefits of a natural lawn reach far beyond reduced local water pollution, eliminating chemicals that can contribute to cancers, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and other cellular diseases. Natural lawns are also better for local pollinators and store much more carbon than heavily fertilized lawns. If you considered removing your lawn to play a part in the battle against climate change, this interview may change your mind — a healthy lawn is a powerful carbon sink.

Rob Moir, Ph.D., president and executive director of the Ocean River Institute, is our guest on *Sustainability in Your Ear*.

The Ocean River Institute is recruiting Massachusetts communities, town by town, to take a pledge to follow natural lawn practices in the Healthy Soils for Climate Restoration Challenge. You don’t need to live in Massachusetts to participate and learn about the alternatives to the traditional, chemical-intensive lawn practices that use Roundup, a source of glyphosates that kills soil-dwelling fungi and local pollinators, and fast-acting nitrogen fertilizers. You can learn more about the Ocean River Institute at www.oceanriver.org.

Rob has contributed many articles about climate change and the history of environmental change since this interview, including:

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Editor’s Note: This episode originally aired on May 30, 2022.

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Green Living

7 Best Sustainable Wedding Dresses for Your Special Day

Published

5 days ago

February 23, 2026

Alice Rush

Choosing your perfect gown can be one of the most exciting decisions for your special day, but for the eco fashionista, it can be a challenge to find a dress that fits your values and style — but these brands have exceptional sustainable wedding dresses you’ll swoon over!

Using earth-minded materials like hemp, cruelty-free peace silk, deadstock recycled fabrics and vintage lace, and producing consciously, either in small batches or handcrafting each individual piece made-to-order, the brands below meet high standards for transparency, ecological sustainability, and fair labor.

[For more sustainable wedding dresses, check out this guide to secondhand wedding dress sites!]

Note that the guide contains affiliate links. As always, we only feature brands that meet strict criteria for sustainability we love, that we think you’ll love too!

1. Christy Dawn

sustainable wedding dresses from Christy Dawn

Dreamy dress brand Christy Dawn does not disappoint with their romantic bridal collection! Each piece is more swoon-worthy than the next.

Their three sustainable bridal gowns are made from regenerative silk charmeuse —sourced through BOMBYX, an innovative silk producer using best practices — and colored in a beautiful pearl silk with non-toxic dyes. Each dress is ethically cut and sewn by makers in Los Angeles earning living wages, as with the rest of Christy Dawn’s collections.

The Britta Dress and Fitzgerald Dress are 1920s inspired while the Athena Dress is a more modern (but equally romantic) option. All of these dresses are made-to-order with an estimated timeline of 4 weeks.

Conscious Qualities: Regenerative silk and organic non-toxic dyes, ethically made-to-order in Los Angeles

Price Range: $2,500 – $3,000

Size Range: XS – XL

Check Out Christy Dawn Bridal

2. Pure Magnolia

Classic sustainable wedding dresses from Pure Magnolia

Blending the traditional with the modern, Pure Magnolia designs classic-inspired sustainable wedding dresses with contemporary touches. And each dress is made in their Canadian studio by seamstresses earning fair wages from eco-fabrics, such as organic cotton and hemp silk.

The brand sources recycled fabrics whenever possible as well, and recycles their scrap fabric through FABCYCLE.

Conscious Qualities: Eco-friendly fabrics, locally and fairly made, recycles scrap fabrics

Price Range: $845 – $3,300 CAD

Size Range: 0 – 28

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3. Lost in Paris

Bohemian-inspired gowns ethically made by Lost in Paris

Lost in Paris crafts each of their creatively designed bohemian-inspired gowns ethically in their Sydney, Australia studio. Unconventional yet undeniably striking, Lost in Paris’ dresses are made from vintage lace and cotton.

Investing in a dress from Lost in Paris is seamless — the brand offers at-home sample try-ons, offers train and sleeve adjustments on several styles, ships their dresses worldwide for free, and even accepts returns. Oh, and, if one of their ready-made sizes doesn’t work for you, you can get a dress designed to your measurements.

Conscious Qualities: Made-to-order model, uses vintage lace, locally made

Price Range: $950 – $3900 AUD

Size Range: XXS – XXL + custom sizing options

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4. Wear Your Love

Ethical wedding dresses made with organic cotton from wear your love

Wear Your Love creates feminine, effortless dresses in their Northern California studio that are — in contrast to the majority of wedding dresses on the market — actually comfortable! The brand’s free-spirited designs are made with soft, earth-minded fabrics like organic cotton and each dress is made to order for each bride to their exact measurements.

There are also customizations available for each eco-friendly wedding dress such as train or no train, skirt or sleeve linings, back coverage, skirt style, and more.

Conscious Qualities: Eco-friendly fabrics, made-to-order model, locally and transparently made

Price Range: $680 – $1,700

Size Range: N/A; dresses are made to your measurements

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5. Larimeloom

Custom-made ethical wedding dresses from Larimeloom

Based in Reggio Emilia, Italy, Larimeloom crafts exceptional custom-made dresses by hand in their atelier. The brand creates comfortable minimalist dresses from durable natural fabrics and colors them with natural or non-toxic dyes.

Larimeloom has also implemented zero waste design techniques, cutting their patterns strategically in order to minimize fabric waste.

Conscious Qualities: Made-to-order model, zero-waste designs, natural fabrics and dyes

Price Range: 650€ – 2,650€

Size Range: XS – XL

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6. Sister Organics

Lace wedding dresses made with earth-friendly natural fabrics from Sister Organics

Sourcing quality earth-friendly natural fabrics like organic hemp and cotton, Sister Organics creates classic, eco-friendly wedding dresses for UK-based brides.

Each dress is made to order in England, so you can select a pre-defined size, customize the length of a size, or get an entirely different dress made for your measurements.

Conscious Qualities: Eco-friendly fabrics, made-to-order model

Price Range: £125 – £390

Size Range: XXS – XXL + custom sizing

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7. Indiebride London

Vintage-inspired eco wedding dresses from Indiebride London

Indiebride’s vintage-inspired sustainable wedding dresses are delicate and romantic yet free-spirited, offering a unique collection for the bride that wants to skip the conventional wedding gown and choose a piece that fits their individual style.

The brand’s conscious wedding dresses are handmade in London using majority natural fibers and can be altered or customized to your specifications.

Conscious Qualities: Made-to-order model, uses many natural fabrics, locally made

Price Range: £1,200 – £1,700

Size Range: 8 – 16 (UK sizes)

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