Tag Archive 'green business'

Jun 17 2009

Handmade Reusable Sandwich Bags with Style

Published by jehaine under Green Products

Save Money and the environment in style with  handmade reuseable sandwich bags.  Several sellers on Etsy (a community of sellers of hand-crafted items), offer attractive reusable sandwich bags like this at reasonable prices. Most with low shipping costs, as well. The bags feature attractive cotton prints and are lined with water-resistant nylon. Bags can be [...]

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Apr 01 2009

Have a Green Cocktail: Order an Eco-Friendly Treetini

Published by jehaine under CO2, Green Products

Veev is an acai berry vodka, and the first carbon neutral spirit, in the world. The vodka is produced in the United States, in a wind powered distillery, from the not only extremely healthful, but also sustainable, acai berry.

The company donates a dollar per bottle sold, toward ensuring the safe harvest of acai in the [...]

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Jan 16 2009

Smoking Hot Green Fashion, from Cigarette Butts

New Chilean fashion designer,  Alexandra Guerro, has managed to create beautiful and functional high fashion clothing, at a price accessible to average people.  This in itself, can be a challenge for up and coming designers, but when you consider the fact that  the yarn used to create her fashions is recycled from discarded cigarette butts, it is truely [...]

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Dec 29 2008

Times Square is Going Green for the New Year

Published by jehaine under CO2, Green Technology, Misc.

It will be a green New New Year’s Eve, in New York this year.  The big red Coca Cola sign, which has been an iconic part of Times Square, since 1932, is going green. The sign will now be lit by wind power, and will be powered by this green energy, in time for the [...]

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Dec 23 2008

Increase in American Organic Cotton Farming

Published by jehaine under Misc., Organics

This morning, the Organic Trade Association  announced the results of research on the prevalence of organic cotton farming, in the U.S. The results showed a significant increase in the farming of organic cotton, a 9% increase was reported over last years figures, which themselves were higher than the preceding year. Greater public demand for ”green” cotton, [...]

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