by Starre Vartan
Yoxi is a competition to discover rockstars of social innovation and their newest competition is all about sustainable style: Trim the Waste of Fashion!
Can you reduce waste in the clothing industry?
Compete to win up to $40,000 when you Trim the Waste of Fashion with Yoxi!
Enter by July 15: Just make a video showing who you are and why you can change the world via reducing the waste in the fashion industry. The winning team scores funds, fans and mentoring to turn their idea into action.
The judges of the competition are Rogan Gregory and Scott Mackinlay Hahn, co-founders of Rogan and Loomstate, eco activist and top model Angela Lindvall, and Geren Lockhart, founder and creative director of Geren Ford.
Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin’s Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst’s The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that’s where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.
(Source: www.eco-chick.com )