A (sort of) vegan-friendly round-up sure to get you talking.

A New York Times article is giving a renewed platform for animal rights activists and vegans worldwide to sound their horns about animals as part of fashion and home decor. With West Hollywood – population 36,000 – leading the charge, Animal Cruelty Activists Spark New Debate For Fashion and want you to pay attention.

To the uneducated, vegan diets are bland, boring and filled with massive amounts of soybean products shaped into blocks that look like astronaut food. In 7 …

What pushes men and women over the edge to have sex or a steamy makeout session?

Most women seem to regard men’s interest in sleeping with them in one of two ways. It’s either, “Yes, every guy wants me, and I have to beat those horny devils off constantly!” Or it’s, “Guys want to sleep with me? That can’t be, I look nothing like the GQ covergirl, and I haven’t waxed in weeks, and I’ve been told I talk too much sometimes…”

Naturally, the truth is somewhere in …

EcoSalon’s top 20 favorite sustainable fashion sites from around the globe.

They help us find out about new designers, industry news, trends, learn what sustainable fashion means, and discover all the swanky events we can attend on a global level – these are our eco fashion writers and designers, our go-to girls reporting all the news fit to print, from the exciting and beautiful to the all-too-often tragic and wasteful designer landscape. These are the pioneers of a new type of fashion that explores, connects and draws us in to what the industry could be if we simply supported it more.

We’d like to throw our own hat into this ring, as well- but then, you’re already here reading us, aren’t you?

Past Fashion Future

Past Fashion Future founder Emma Grady says: “I founded Past Fashion Future one year ago as a platform to explore my personal style aesthetic and to show the beauty of timeless and classic fashion and style. I love hearing people’s personal style stories, specifically about their sentimental connection to the clothing that they wear.”

We love the site layout, sharp, stylish images and especially, Something Old, Something New, a series that reveals how modern day style mavens wear heirlooms, vintage, and ethical fashion.

Brunch photos to inspire weekend cooking.

Heading into the weekend we all look forward to one thing: brunch. We love spending lackadaisical Saturday and Sunday mornings with friends, a French press and a full spread of delicious food in front of us. Whether it’s cooking up a breakfast storm at home (bacon cups anyone?) or going out, brunch is one of our favorite meals.

Need your own inspiration for enjoying all the food your weekend could potentially bring? Here’s our favorite brunch food porn from Foodspotting.

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Pendleton’s reversible Harding Poncho is a must have for fall.

We are pretty obsessed with this exclusive, limited edition Harding Poncho which offers a reversible black and ivory Native American design Pendleton introduced about 80 years ago. Made from 100% pure virgin wool, this family-owned, Oregon based company produces outerwear that combines softness with exceptional warmth and original styling.

The comfortable poncho provides complete coverage much like a blanket, with a funnel neck that protects against cold.

Sounds perfect for leaf peeping.

$395

Look for Lustables daily at EcoSalon. 100% gorgeous green finds, and never …

Just in time for dinner, bookmark this: EcoSalon’s handpicked playlist to inspire tonight’s cooking and kitchen dancing. 

Sometimes cooking is a joy. Other times, when you’re tired and feeling low on creative inspiration, cooking is a chore. Fortunately there’s one thing that helps: music. The EcoSalon team put together a list of our 13 favorite songs to cook to.

Check out the music videos below, or instead of clicking play every time one music video ends and you need to start the next one, you can even go ahead and …

A New York Times article is sparking new discussion on animal cruelty.

The fashion spotlight is once again shining on the cities of New York, London, Paris and Milan, but for those interested in a widening lens of what style and beauty can be, it might well be the tiny city of West Hollywood that is leading the fashion pack. According to an article in the New York Times last week, the city in Los Angeles hopes its most cherished legacy will be as a leading crusader for animal rights.

Home to …

Walmart is rolling out a global program to benefit women but it won’t help their own female U.S. retail employees.

Recently Walmart made our unofficial list of workplaces that are unfriendly to women. For years, the company has been fighting the largest class action gender discrimination lawsuit in history. In June 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there was no evidence of a centralized corporate conspiracy by Walmart to discriminate against women, so they decertified the class action and cast the individual claims back into the lower courts. These cases are still pending. Now Walmart has turned around and announced an ambitious, global initiative to benefit women.