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Decorate your home with easy eco-friendly style. Curtainworks is introduces the Caress Voile Sheer for your spring make-overs. These fashionable and affordable new window treatments feature REPREVE® fibers made from 100% recycled materials, including used plastic beverage bottles. Notable f eatures of Caress Voile Sheer recycled content curtains: Rod pocket construction Semi-sheer / maintains [...]
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 [...]
I just found an incredible sale at SimpleShoes.com (one of my favorite green companies). They are giving away free special edition “Stop Global Warming” sandals, with any purchase (including the clearance stuff). They are also currently offering Free Shipping. These sneakers and shoes are not only “green”, but I have found them to be well [...]
The jeweler greenCarat/greenKarat offers socially responsible options way for jewelry buyers. The company seeks “ to end destructive gold and diamond mining.”, by producing lovely and unique pieces from 100% post-consumer gold. They also offer a voluntary carbon offset tax, which is only $1.76 on most pieces. If you are about to get engaged, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New Uses for Old Tires: An Innovative American Company is Finding Solutions Today, New Jersey based green technology company, B Green Innovations Inc., a producer of products made from 100% recycled tires, has announced that they are ready to apply for 3 more patents. These applications are in addition to the company’s recent patent application [...]