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  1. Soft Star Mocs can Improve your Gas Mileage!

    Yes – really. Strange but true. “Hypermilers” are groups of people fiendishly devoted to improving their gas mileage – sometimes by 2X simply by changing their driving habits. NPR has a fun audio report you can listen to (click here) where passionate hypermileage devotees to all extremes of rolling through stop signs, avoiding hills, eschewing […]

  2. Best Boots Ever Made

    I recently came across a fascinating article by Burkhard Bilger titled “Sole Survivor”. Published by the New Yorker magazine, you can view the article in its entirety here. It is a witty, fascinating account of Professor Petr Hlavacek’s quest to reconstruct the footwear used by Stone Age hunter “Otzi” – sprinkled with a humorous and […]

  3. Soft Star in "Clothes with a Conscience"

    Soft Star also showed up this month in the May issue of Scholastic’s Parent and Child magazine. Their article on “Clothes with a Conscience” focused on eco-friendly kid attire and featured our both our leather and vegan moccasins. (for more press, click here) Article content talked about the importance of the entire value chain when […]

  4. Playful Pancakes for Mother's Day

    Some of you may know about our wonderful 8 year old friend Cassidy who creates her Playful Pancake cat toys and sends 100% of the proceeds to the international “Kids for Kids” organization to buy goats (kids) for families in Sudan. So far her hard work and spunk has resulted in the purchase of 250 goats! […]

  5. Soft Star in the Press - KIWI Eco Shoes

    The KIWI magazine features the latest in everyday natural and organic family style – so we were thrilled when they asked us for some shoes to feature in their January-February 2008 issue on eco-friendly shoes. Our Roo Moc is featured in the upper right hand corner in azure and navy. Says KIWI: Let your shoes […]

  6. News team in the shop!

    We had an exciting morning today… the local news station, KVAL Channel 13 of Eugene Oregon, was here to do an interview with Cassidy and Patricia Parker. Patricia is the organizer for Kids For Kids, the charity Cassidy supports with her Playful Pancakes. Patriciais visiting from the United Kingdom for two weeks – a week […]

  7. Local Children Turn Scraps Into Art

    When Art Instructor Tonya Gaineystopped by looking for leather scraps – we had no idea what a treat she and her students had in store! Fifty-four students from local Corvallis-area schools poured their artistic energies into creating beautiful leather baskets like the one photographed here! The students participated from: Mountain View Elementary 2nd – 5th […]

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