Spring Biker, Best Doc & Easter Candy

Cheap Monday has a nice faux-leather biker vest available at Alter $105
(Shop via text message through or Subports web store.)

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Gilt offers a Rogue poly-cotton faux-leather, asymmetrical zip jacket in black or
(here’s your Invite to be a Gilt member)

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We were THRILLED that The Cove won an Academy Award for Best Documentary last night! If you haven’t seen it, you must! Watch the trailer, buy the movie, then find out what you can do to help!

What’s the best part about Sweet & Sarah’s Easter marshmallows in the shapes of chicks, bunnies, and eggs? There no boiled cow or horse hooves, tendons or cartilage in them! Don’t get me wrong – I love how cute Peeps are as much as the next guy, but there’s something as sinister and creepy as a Zombie-Jesus about disguising nasty slaughterhouse-scraps as yummy candy for kids. Thanks to Sweet & Sarah your celebration of Easter doesn’t have to support factory farming.

Cream EggsAlso, don’t forget to include some vegan Cadbury-style ‘cream’-filled eggs from the Chocolate Wendy House.

Peacoat, Hold the Sheep.

Sheesh! What’s the deal with wool? Many people ask what is the point in avoiding wool? They don’t kill the animal for it, right? Aside from how most commercial wool-producing sheep are treated, you may be shocked to find out the truth of the environmental impact too! In the mean time, here are some alternatives to our favorite classic pea coat, minus the sheep industry.

Hiroshi Awai designed a collection under the name CREEP, and many of the coats are organic cotton, and poly-filled. The double-breasted, navy, organic cotton and cotton-herringbone work jackets need some layering, but the duffle-coat (while not a pea coat-style) is warm and gorgeous in organic cotton with poly-fill and comes in beige, brown check and green khaki.

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