This article is part of CNN Underscored’s Earth Week, a weeklong focus on our planet and ways to celebrate and preserve it. We’ll be featuring tips on how to live more sustainably, products to help ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

While you can donate old T-shirts and jeans, you’re likely to just toss your used socks in the trash. But now, Smartwool wants you to give them your old socks—from any brand—so that they can recycle ...

I’m a highly sensitive person. One of the tell-tale markers of a highly sensitive person, especially in childhood, is that they’re “weird about their socks.” I usually went without socks as a kid, ...

The repurposed yarn is blended with responsibly sourced Merino wool and designed with an elasticized arch and seamless toe for comfort. Credit [Smartwool] Smartwool claims to be one of the first ...

Still wearing cotton socks to workout in? Toss those aside and be amazed at the difference a good athletic sock can make. If you’ve had issues with blisters, holes in your socks, or odor-related ...

Smartwool's cycling gear is great for transitional-weather workouts. (Photo via Hilary Hagerman) It's been a hot summer in Canada. For someone like me, who frequently cycles 50 kilometres or more at a ...

What comes after Earth Day? An avalanche of socks. A North Carolina nonprofit called Material Return has teamed with Smartwool, a major American clothing producer, to collect 400,000 pairs of socks ...