Infographic Illustrates Why We Should Buy Local

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Plastic Bottles Turned into Useful Eco-Style

This awesome bag, which I will be very hard pressed to give up, is made from material that is made from recycled plastic bottles.

Free and Discounted Sustainable Sports Apparel

If you are anywhere near Union Square NY (Manhattan) this week, you will definitely want to stop in @ Paragon Sports to check out Icebreaker‘s line of sport apparel and get a 26.2% discount AND a free pair of their wonderful socks. This is fabulous, natural apparel — great for running (supposedly doesn’t get stinky, [...]

Easy Sustainable Style with Way Basics

We had a chance to put together a Way Basics shelf recently. It really was as easy as they represented – at least it was for Woody the wonder dog and my two daughters Mary and Jessie. I read about Way Basics and was intrigued. I needed some simple book shelves and figured I’d just [...]

Standards for Eco-Stuff

As I review more and more ‘green’ products these days, I’m kind of baffled that there isn’t more of a standardized rating system. I googled ‘green product standards’ and I found the Green Seal of course, which is great for paper products and cleaners.  The EPA even has a database for information on environmental products and [...]

Tea Time with Terra Keramik

Anyone who spends any time with me knows I don’t go for more than an hour during daylight hours without a cup of tea. So, any opportunity to test new tea-related products is very welcome. I received this beautiful blue mug from Terra Keramik, a socially and environmentally responsible ceramics manufacturer that uses renewable energy [...]

Great Green Pet Products

One of the best parts of this job is that we get to test and review a lot of products. They just seem to magically show up on the doorstep. Some of them we request from the hundreds of press releases we receive, but some just appear as if by magic! Recently, I opened a package [...]