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SDN is a Brooklyn-based clothing company with an emphasis on quality, innovation and social responsibility. Created in 2003, SDN started with recycling used T-shirts, hand dying them and screen-printing collages on them. After much success, and recognizing the need and desire for clothing made from sustainable fabrics, SDN launched a full line of men’s and women’s clothing, made entirely of recycled, organic and other sustainable fabrics for Fall 2008.

When writer-actor John Leguizamo shows up to do a show in New York, fans outside the theater are surprised to see him ride up on a bicycle. "People go, 'Hey, John, I thought you'd be in a limo.' "This is my limo, my green limo. I'm saving the planet for your kids and your grandkids," says the performer, who has starred in award-winning one-man shows on Broadway and appeared in dozens of films and TV shows.

The Cabestan Sol Invictus is the world’s first solar wrist watch ready for commercial sale. Sol Invictus will combine solar cells, lithium-ion batteries, micromotors, and century-old electromechanical trimmings to ensure the timepiece keeps on ticking.

Lifelong farmer John Peterson runs Angelic Organics, one of the largest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms in the United States. More than 1,300 families in the Chicago area receive a weekly delivery of vegetables and herbs from Angelic Organics. John is the subject of Taggart Siegel’s award-winning feature documentary film, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, which has been seen in theaters and on television throughout the world.

For most baby boomers, cabbage was a vegetable few home cooks could get right. Steamed or boiled to mush, it would invariably ruin good meals. Enter the ever-increasing influence of Asian cooking and now everyone's weekly farmers’ market shopping list includes wombok, sugarloaf cabbage or bok choy, as these greens are quick and easy to prepare. They're also packed with vitamins A,B and C and magnesium, potassium, calcium and chlorophyll (which is like “sunshine” in a green form that is purifying and healing to our bodies), antioxidants, and good-for-your-blood nutrients for superior health and energy.

Many fabrics in sexy green lingerie styles are made from organic cotton, hemp, bamboo and recycled fabrics are so soft and comfortable they are perfect for eco underwear. And since nothing is closer to us than our unders, isn't it better to have soft, natural organic fabric next to our skin?

Make organic underwear a part of your sustainable wardrobe, after all, the textile industry is one of the world's most polluting, and contributing to toxic runoff and poisoned ecosystems.