Comments on: What Green Changes Can You Make in a Year? http://frugallygreen.org/what-green-changes-can-you-make-in-a-year/ Saving Earth one dollar at a time Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:56:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bennett Conzemius http://frugallygreen.org/what-green-changes-can-you-make-in-a-year/#comment-1379 Bennett Conzemius Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:30:25 +0000 http://frugallygreen.org/?p=1418#comment-1379 Great story and example Great story and example

]]> By: ConsciouslyFrugal http://frugallygreen.org/what-green-changes-can-you-make-in-a-year/#comment-1017 ConsciouslyFrugal Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:11:28 +0000 http://frugallygreen.org/?p=1418#comment-1017 After learning more about sweatshops and child labor in the garment industry, I'm going to give myself the challenge of buying only clothes made in the USA in 2010. Made abroad is fine for thrift store finds, but here's the rub: I'm uber fat. Fat women do not part easily with clothes, so thrift finds are rare. Also, there are so few plus-size lines that don't suck out there, and I know of only one that is made in the USA. (It sucks as well.) I've already signed up for a sewing class, and have found a couple of folks who do custom work fairly inexpensively. Hopefully, this won't be as much of a challenge as I worry it will be. Ideally, I want clothing manufactured in the USA from sustainably-sourced fabrics. Wish me luck! After learning more about sweatshops and child labor in the garment industry, I’m going to give myself the challenge of buying only clothes made in the USA in 2010. Made abroad is fine for thrift store finds, but here’s the rub: I’m uber fat. Fat women do not part easily with clothes, so thrift finds are rare.

Also, there are so few plus-size lines that don’t suck out there, and I know of only one that is made in the USA. (It sucks as well.) I’ve already signed up for a sewing class, and have found a couple of folks who do custom work fairly inexpensively. Hopefully, this won’t be as much of a challenge as I worry it will be. Ideally, I want clothing manufactured in the USA from sustainably-sourced fabrics. Wish me luck!

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