In some ways, it is easier to build an ethical wardrobe for kids. In others, it isn’t. In building an ethical wardrobe for our kids, I do a few things well. We are truly minimalists. Our kids don’t have many clothes, and I am working to keep it that way. We also have outfitted them
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Gift Guides
Ethical Gift Guide for Little Ones
This is probably the easiest gift guide I will do this year. I just picked a few of our favorite things, both mine and Buggy’s, (who just turned two at the time of writing) that we have received or purchased in the last few years. So, easy! Here is my collection of plastic-free, low-tech, ethically
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Ethical Beauty
Why It Took Having A Baby To Switch to Ethical Beauty
I am embarrassed to admit this, but it took me years (a decade?) to completely embrace ethical beauty. When I first started Future:Standard, I wasn’t all that concerned with clean and ethical beauty. I know. Seems odd. I was so immersed and passionate about ethical fashion, eating organic, and a sustainable lifestyle, but I had
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Motherhood
50+ All-Natural Morning Sickness Remedies (and none of them are ginger)
Congrats! You’re pregnant! Welcome to 9 blissful months of glowing skin, thick glossy hair, kindness from strangers, and of course the all day hell that is “morning” sickness! You are reading this, so I think it is safe to assume that you are probably battling with some form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. At
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Ethical Style
Ethical And Eco-Friendly Style For Your First Trimester
First of all, CONGRATS! The miracle of life, the pregnancy glow, creating new life… blah blah blah. Let’s talk about getting dressed in the morning. Ugh. Dressing for pregnancy is hard. Trying to do so, without compromising your values is even harder. I know I always say that you don’t have to compromise values for style
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Ethical Beauty
A Series | The Ethical Stylist’s Guide to Summer
If you are anything like me, you look forward to summer all year! From the delicious stone fruit, the barbecues and pool parties (doesn’t everything taste better when eaten outside?), to the lazy beach days, and the vacations and weddings, there is nothing sweeter than summer. While we are still in the midst of the
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Motherhood
Practical Advice on Cloth Diapering
Eight years ago, when I first started writing and talking publicly about ethical fashion and lifestyle, I never in a million years thought I would write about cloth diapers. But, here I am, giving out practical advice on cloth diapering. This is not a how to or a recommendation on brands or styles (maybe, another
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Ethical Style
Ethical Style Gift Guide For New Moms
Last Christmas, I was a brand new mom. And I got a lot of great gifts (and a few not so great ones. If you have a brand new mom in your life, here is our Gift Guide: The Best Ethical Gifts For New Moms, with things that I wished I’d had at the time
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Motherhood
Monica & Andy’s Eco-Friendly Baby Clothes Are A Must!
I am new to the baby clothes scene. Of course, I knew I wanted to outfit our sweet tiny in as clean and sustainable as possible. I also knew that most of the clothes he would wear in the first year would be gifts (and hand-me-downs, yay!). We got so many teeny tiny outfits that I didn’t