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New Green Lifestyle Mag: Boho

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At the bookstore the other day, we checked out Boho, a new green lifestyle publication billed as "a bohemian's guide to style." It focuses more on fashion than home design, but there were a few blogable notes we made while flipping through the magazine...

 
 

• It's printed in the USA on recycled paper with matte finishes and soy ink.
• A brief article covered green hotels in New York and LA.
• They wrote up one of our favorite green shops, Alabama Chanin.
• A 2-page spread covers green home stores in Northern California.
• We enjoyed the write-up on Heaven, an organic bakery in the Catskills.

Apart from these mini-articles, the magazine is pretty female-centric and covers clothes, beauty products, and restyled accessories. For more information, click here.

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wait...is that some sorta light fixture with recycled paper hanging all from it? can we say FIRE HAZZARD? I learned my lesson when I threw my slip in 4th grade up on my chandelier in my bedroom....the fixture burned a big hole in my slip and i nearly burned down the house. wow.

posted by LittleRock on 2008-08-26 10:40:24
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Totally dumb and dated name for a magazine, especially if its primarily a magazine about fashion.
Sorry, had to say it.

posted by frontiersperson on 2008-08-26 10:58:07
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It's probably a CFL if it's being featured in a green magazine. I think it's probably just another dumb and pretty magazine, but you need stuff like this at the dentist and the nail salon.

posted by K T G on 2008-08-26 11:07:13
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It looks like something I'd actually read but I'm dubious. I kept trying to read Organic Style but getting teed off at the greenwashing and rolling it up and chucking it at things. The trouble with green lifestyle mags is that magazines sell ads and ads promote consumerism and promoting consumerism inevitably sneaks into the editorials. Ultimately I'm more about the organic part than the style.

posted by whytephoenix on 2008-08-26 11:26:22
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i picked this up last week. kinda neat. a bit light. it isn't primarily about fashion. it's a lifestyle magazine for women.

posted by Lady J on 2008-08-26 12:25:32
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House and Garden and Blueprint went away only to make room for this type of green washed lifestyle banality? Blech.

posted by Seaside on 2008-08-26 15:22:51
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FYI, Half-Price Books buys magazines to resell, if you want to recycle while getting a tiny bit back. Not a great deal, BUT expanding what's available to others is nice. I was surprised at their offering and immediately saw some subscriptions I could contribute to fill in gaps.

posted by That70sHeidi on 2008-08-26 16:02:26
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i got a sample copy of this magazine last week. Though I'm sick of the whole go green theme of every magazine of late...this really had a fresh and unique look. The art direction is quite beautiful and for the first time in a very long while...i was pleasantly surprised by a magazine! I'd definitely check it out again.

posted by susie b on 2008-08-26 20:03:30
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