In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, we give you seven ingredients to self-police out of your life year-round.

We’ve already established that breast cancer awareness month perhaps may be a wee bit commercialized with tainted pink product. And by “wee bit,” we really mean as commercialized as a Kardashian wedding set in Vegas directed by Michael Bay. And that this over-commercialization, in fact, takes away from the message that being aware of breast cancer is a good and noble thing.

What’s more, as a writer who covers green beauty, nothing steams …

ColumnEven if you can’t pay, you still deserve access to good food.

When you go to a museum and there’s a donation box, but no set entrance fee, how much do you put in? Don’t worry, I won’t force you to answer that question publicly – personally it depends on my mood – but the “pay what you can afford” model is an interesting one.

Built on human faith – one can hope that most people are good hearted enough not to totally take advantage of the system – the …

Turns out, it’s fun being dead. Provided you lurk in the right zipcode.

At EcoSalon, we approach shelter with the philosophy that a home is more than just a roof over your head. It’s a refuge – an asylum, if you will – from the travails of everyday existence. Today being All Hallows Eve, that sentiment holds true not just for the living among us, but also for the dead. The undead, even, in the interest of fairness.

Here are ten of America’s most phantom-friendly haunts where a ghost …

Thanks to strong social platforms and online media, e-commerce sites like Urban Outfitters can’t afford many more PR disasters.

When Sasha Houston Brown, a Native American woman, walked into an Urban Outfitters weeks ago, she found the fast fashion chain selling what they refer to as their “Navajo Collection.” Houston-Brown was offended by the imported “plastic dream catchers wrapped in pleather hung next to an indistinguishable mass of artificial feather jewelry and hyper sexualized clothing featuring an abundance of suede, fringe and inauthentic tribal patterns” that included items like a Navajo Print Fabric Wrapped Flask and Navajo Hipster Panty.

EcoSalon’s weekly playlist pick from 8tracks.

Today I find myself with a morning view of the Rockies and a light dusting of the snow on the ground. Therefore, despite winter solstice still being a ways off, I need cold weather music. And although it’s a bit different from our usual, crank-up-the-volume-brew-a-second-French-Press madness, sometimes you just need something a little calmer.

It’s time to give peach a chance. This color complements most skin tones and goes really well with denim.

Fall is all about bright color. If you’re not into hot pink, fire-engine red or Kelly green, give peach a chance — it’s one of those hues that go well with most skin tones. It’s also a perfect complement to denim blues, which is what really makes it one of our current faves. Try a pretty tie-neck blouse or a highly versatile vest/dress as your base, then toughen up …

Ideal for pinning photos and other forget-me-nots.

Georgian-made from reclaimed roofing tin and scrap plywood, these frames are charmingly southern and aesthetically rustic. Created by Margaret Taylor of Dryads Dancing, the buttons (made from new materials) can be used to display old photos or hold memos.

The AIGA (Re)Design awards celebrate the best in sustainable design.

On Thursday night, the winners of the AIGA (Re)Design Awards, a competition celebrating the best in sustainable design, were presented at the (Re)Design Extravaganza at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. Underneath a handsome Stegosaurus specimen in the museum’s new Dinosaur Hall, guests could admire the winning work up close.