Earth Day is finally here and it’s time to prioritize giving the earth some love today—and every day. Luckily, there are so many brands that put a major focus on creating sustainable initiatives and practices in their business so that we can feel good about making purchases. The fashion industry is such a huge cause of pollution and carbon emissions, so it’s good to know that there are retailers out there who we can trust and stand behind.
Here are our fave sustainable retailers to shop for Earth Day.
MAVI
Mavi has over 30 years of experience mastering the art of jeans. The brand is constantly innovating to become as sustainable as possible, with a mission to make sustainable denim the norm, not just the premium exception. Mavi creates eco-friendly denim that uses less energy, water, and chemicals, and uses sustainable materials like Tencel. Learn more and shop sustainable denim here!
Everlane
Everlane ensures it stays committed to developing sustainable supply chains by using recycled materials, addresses water use and chemical inputs, and invests in carbon offset projects. The shop is full of organic cotton pieces, denim with low-impact dyeing, and accessories made from recycled plastic bottles.
SELV Ritual
SELV is always thinking of ways to reduce its ecological footprint. To do so, all packaging is made with recyclable glass jars to compostable paper bags! One of its hero scents, Le Rituel Nordique, is packaged in seed paper which can be planted in soil and will eventually grow to become beautiful wildflowers! SELV creates these boxes with different products and raw materials that they no longer need or work with, which makes them a minimal-waste company.
Tentree
Tentree is dedicated to finding and sourcing the most sustainable fibres and materials available. The brand takes great pride in finding better, healthier, and more eco-progressive solutions for its customers. In addition to placing such a large focus on amazing materials, Tentree plants 10 trees for every item purchased. How cool is that?
Chatters
Chatters strives to offer the most inclusive and environmentally sustainable salon and shopping experience. The company previously launched Style Consciously, an initiative about making mindful choices. It showcases a curated selection of items that positively impact health, lifestyle, and the environment. Plus, in honour of Earth Day, enjoy 25% off select Style Consciously products!
Kuwalla Tee
Kuwalla Tee prides itself on being eco-friendly and minimizing waste, without compromising quality, style, comfort, and affordability. All of the brand’s packaging is made from recyclable and biodegradable material and it’s also a proud partner of 1% for the planet! This Earth Day, shop its Endangered Species Collection where 30% of proceeds will go to Nature Canada!
Reformation
Reformation is not only known for its stylish it-girl-approved fashion, but also for its sustainability initiatives! Sustainability remains at the core of everything Reformation does, from its manufacturing factory in LA to its fabrics, packaging, and retail stores. It’s committed to pushing the industry forward and investing in future-focused solutions; it’s currently a certified climate-neutral company and commits to being climate-positive by 2025.
Allbirds
If you’re on the hunt for sustainable sneakers, check out Allbirds! It creates sneakers using natural fibres and focuses on driving its carbon emissions to zero. To address its climate impact, Allbirds takes a three-part approach: measuring emissions, reducing its footprint, and working to support the removal of carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
Raw Sugar Living
Known for its clean personal care products and “do no harm” philosophy, Raw Sugar Living is making clean and affordable green beauty accessible to all. Its products are vegan and cruelty-free, crafted with clean, organic extracts and good-for-you ingredients, and packaged with 30% post-consumer recycled plastic (with a commitment to 100% PCR by 2030).
Lover’s Tempo
Certified B Corporation, Lover’s Tempo is making waves in the jewellery industry. The Vancouver-based brand developed the innovative Full Circle Artist Program, an initiative which incites positive change and dialogue about circularity within the jewellery industry, transforming its products from waste to art.
Everist
Founded by Toronto-based Jessica Stevenson and Jayme Jenkins, Everist was named one of Time’s Best Inventions and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas. The brand is leading the waterless beauty movement with the first-ever hair and body concentrates! Made in a base of glycerin and aloe vera instead of water, its products are created with the hair, scalp, and skin in mind, and happen to have a 77% smaller carbon impact.
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Earth Day is coming up this week, so what better way to celebrate than to shout out some of our fave brands that have focused on creating sustainable initiatives. We all know that the fashion industry has a major negative effect on the planet, so it’s always important to seek out brands that are putting in efforts to reduce harm.
Here are our fave brands with sustainable initiatives.
Tentree
Tentree is dedicated to finding and sourcing the most sustainable fibres and materials available. The brand takes great pride in finding better, healthier, and more eco-progressive solutions for its customers. In addition to placing such a large focus on amazing materials, tentree plants 10 trees per every item purchased. How cool is that?
Earth’s Own
Earth’s Own, a Canadian brand behind some seriously delicious plant-based milk, is on a mission to change the way the world eats and reduce our carbon “food” print. To celebrate Earth Day, they’ve created #ThePlantChallenge, asking Canadians to eat plant-based all day on Earth Day to help save our planet. After all, it’s the single biggest thing we can do, as individuals, to reduce the impacts of climate change. To participate, eat plants morning, noon, and night, and visit @earthsowncanada to share their call-to-action post. For every share, Earth’s Own will donate 25 cents (up to $25k) to the Plant Project.
Club Monaco
Club Monaco prioritizes quality pieces that live on season after season. The brand believes it has a responsibility to reduce its impact on the planet and leverages responsible fabrics and has developed new ways to produce pieces sustainably.
Everlane
Everlane ensures it stays committed to developing sustainable supply chains by using recycled materials, addresses water use and chemical inputs, and invests in carbon offset projects. The shop is full of organic cotton pieces, denim with low-impact dyeing, and accessories made from recycled plastic bottles.
Kuwalla Tee
Kuwalla Tee prides itself on being eco-friendly and minimizing waste, without compromising quality, style, comfort, and affordability. All of the brand’s packaging is made from recyclable and biodegradable material and it’s also a proud partner of 1% for the planet!
Amika
Amika is a cruelty-free and vegan-certified haircare brand that focuses on becoming more sustainable in all of its business practices. It’s recently announced a brand new signature ingredient, Sea Buckthorn, which is sustainably sourced, organic, and fair-trade. This is a major step forward in the brand’s missions towards a more sustainable future.
LASPA
LASPA is on a mission to create clean and natural beauty products with only the finest ingredients. Its products are made from natural sources, which means its environmental impact is reduced. LASPA’s offerings are reef safe, biodegradable, and created with recyclable packaging.
Local European
Local European is seriously a brand to have on your radar for all of the right reasons. Not only does it manufacture all of its collections with deadstock fabric to save energy and lower its carbon footprint, it also produces its pieces in small batches to ensure waste reduction.
Garnier
In 2020, the brand Garnier announced its Green Beauty sustainable initiative. This is a complete end-to-end approach to sustainability, transforming every stage of Garnier’s value chain, and dramatically reducing the brand’s environmental impact.
Olive + Splash
Created by Melanie Wong, Olive + Splash, offers a selection of cashmere-soft, eco-friendly, and ethically sourced bamboo apparel. Bamboo is such an awesome material to use when focusing on protecting the planet, plus it’s breathable and doesn’t contain harmful chemicals.
Call It Spring
Call It Spring products are 100% vegan, PETA approved and made from recycled materials. The parent company, The ALDO Group, is a proud and active member of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition and it aims to resolve damaging practices and achieve environmental and social transparency demanded by consumers.
MUJI
MUJI is a brand that offers a variety of sustainable initiatives that include reusable products at affordable prices. It offers tote bags to travel-size storage, and everything in between, that will help you leave behind single-use items.
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It seems like every other day we hear about another retailer closing stores. And when a brand shuts down shop, we rarely hear about them again.
But in some special cases, a brand or retailer closes up store for something good. Case in point: The North Face.
The North Face is shutting down stores across the globe for an incredible Earth Day initiative.
But if you’re getting retail apocalypse vibes, don’t fret! The company is shutting down stores for one day only on April 22 in order to give employees the opportunity to disconnect from the internet and connect with the world.
“We believe that when people take time to appreciate the Earth, they feel more connected to it and are more likely to protect it. Explore Mode urges us to unplug from our digital lives to connect in real life to the world, each other, and ourselves in the effort to move the world forward,” Tim Bantle, The North Face’s Global General Manager of Lifestyle said in a press release.
There are six stores across Canada that will be closed for the day on April 22.
The stores include the following regular retail locations:
TNF Montreal
1247 Saint-Catherine St W, Montreal, QC H3G 1P3
TNF West Edmonton Mall
1755 8882 170 St NW Spc R219, Edmonton, AB T5T 4J2
TNF Vancouver
792 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1E4
As well as the following outlet locations, including one in the greater Toronto area.
TNF Niagara
300 Taylor Rd, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0
TNF Vaughan Mills
1 Bass Pro Mills Dr, Concord, ON L4K 5W4
TNF Mirabel
19001 Chemin Notre Dame Spc 201A, Mirabel, QC J7J 0T1
The outdoor company has also teamed up with 15 organizations across the globe to attempt to make Earth Day an officially recognized holiday — something we can totally get down with!
They’ve started a petition to put the movement in motion and give people more opportunity to explore the earth and enjoy the outdoors.
If this movement sounds like your sort of thing, you can head over to Change.org to sign the petition, which, at the time of writing, has just under 50,000 signatures!
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