Is your footprint too fat? You’re in the right place: EcoStiletto dishes out daily eco-friendly fashion, beauty, lifestyle and celebrity advice that can help shrink your carbon footprint from a ginormous boot into an oh-so-slender stiletto. Quite possibly, you’re on a return visit: The site recorded 1.5 million page views and nearly 500,000 unique visitors in 2009, and that’s all because of you. Thank you!

But back up a minute: Just what is a carbon footprint, anyway? In a nutshell, it’s basically a way to calculate the amount of non-renewable energy it takes to support your lifestyle. Leading climatologists say we need to reduce this kind of energy use by at least 50% to fight global warming. And though some folks dismiss everyday green initiatives like buying green ‘bulbs and hybrid cars as a mere drop in one helluva bucket, others agree that if we all take action in our daily lives, these drops can add up to a flood.

So if you drive a gigantic car and leave your lights on all day, your carbon footprint would be calculated somewhere along the lines of an Ugg boot. But if you’re an eco-obsessive who bikes everywhere and burns soy candles to light your home, your carbon footprint would look, well, virtually nonexistent. Most of us fall somewhere in between. But most carbon calculators don’t take into account that the daily decisions we make every day can reduce our carbon footprints. They don’t care that you buy organic denim jeans or paraben-free beauty products. But these things count!

We’re not about guilt, we’re about information. We’re not about forcing you to change, we’re about giving you alternatives. Because everyone wants to make a difference, but no one wants to give up the little things that we love. Making a difference doesn’t have to mean making a huge change in your lifestyle. Sometimes it just means considering the alternatives.

Nimli is one of the most environmentally mindful retailers due to our practice and policy that requires all designers to ship their products directly to our customers. This results in placing a much lower carbon footprint by eliminating the unnecessary step of shipping items to a warehouse for future re-shipment. Further advancing this model and striving to become completely carbon neutral, Nimli purchases Green Tags to offset the carbon released from shipping, energy consumption and other business activities.

We embrace a way of life that supports goods that do not cause suffering and damage to the environment. Living in such a manner involves cultivating products and services that avoid harm to animals and prevent the depletion of the Earth’s natural resources.