Get Fresh
Date: June 6, 2008 | Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
Busy Brooklyn dwellers, take note. If you’re too busy to scour the farmer’s market on the weekends and whip up meals during the weekdays, check out Get Fresh. The company does it all, from stocking its store in Park Slope with farm-fresh foods to delivering ingredients for a tasty meal right to your doorstep. At the eco-friendly store, you can find ready-to-cook meals, as well as hand-picked extra virgin olive oils, gourmet vinegars, and extras like locally produced ice cream and pickles. Order online and your food will be delivered by bike!…
Food for Thought
Date: May 30, 2008 | Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
For ecofabulous foodies in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and all over Canada you can order up all of your weekly ingredients from Spud. Certified organic produce from local farms and sustainable seafood top the goodies available from Spud (not just great potatoes). More than half of the company’s groceries are certified organic, and they pay close attention to the ingredients in products sold. By simply entering in your zip code, you can browse foodstuffs and submit your order 48 hours before your area’s delivery date. With Spud, you can keep a standing order so that kitchen staples will be delivered routinely, or you can simply order food as you need it (though you will be limited to certain days). By switching to Spud, you’ll keep another car off the road and save yourself a lot of time that you can spend figuring out how to properly compost!
Tea Time Tonight
Date: May 29, 2008 | Category: Events, Food & Drink, Lifestyle
If you can make it tonight to the Bliss Tea Company launch party at Hollywood hotspot Libertine, you’ll be in for some premium cocktails debuting the Bliss Sparkling White Tea and Green Tea. Organic teas combine with natural, organic sweeteners to form this sparkling alternative to soda. With most ingredients sourced domestically, Bliss teas are brewed in California and chicly packaged in recyclable aluminum. To read all about Bliss, tonight’s event and to hear from the founder, check out Weekly Phil’s coverage here.
Cure for the Summertime Blues
Date: May 27, 2008 | Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
At first sip, MateVeza tastes… interesting. But by the third sip, our little after work impromptu office party couldn’t get enough. The yerba mate infused cerveza has an unexpected kick that sets it far apart from other beers. It has a decidedly herbal finish and a natural stimulant, making it both unique and compelling. Now we’re not saying swap your morning cup of joe for a bottle of this earthy brew, but the next time you have some friends over for a BBQ and don’t want to take a 3pm nap, pop open a MateVeza and make your event a hopping success.
Cookies with a Conscience
Date: May 12, 2008 | Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
The story behind Liz Lovely has a familiar ring (if you live in the Bay Area), with a bit of a twist: two high school sweethearts, former dot-comers and city dwellers, hightail it to Vermont where they make their dreams of running an ethical business of delicious, decadent vegan baked goods come true. Liz Lovely’s handmade cookies come in traditional flavors like chocolate chip and peanut butter as well as a few for those who favor more exotic tastes, including ginger and molasses snapdragons and coffee, macadamia nut, and chocolate “mochadamia mountains.” The company’s mission has always included using organic, non-GMO and fair trade ingredients, and their line of tasty treats has recently expanded to chocolate covered pretzels, nuts, and dried fruit. Another of Liz Lovely’s latest endeavors is green packaging: gift samplers come in cute and endlessly reusable steel buckets, most of the chocolate-coated goodies are packaged in compostable containers made from corn, and the company uses 100% post-consumer recycled and shredded paper from local businesses as fill whenever possible.
Brunching Green With Mom…And Beyond
Date: May 8, 2008 | Category: Events, Food & Drink, Lifestyle
Mother’s Day is just around the corner (May 11th, for the truly preoccupied). In our experience, if there’s one thing a mom really wants, it’s to spend the day with her kids. So we’re thinking, what better way to celebrate than a beautiful, organic meal from an eco-eatery?
Everybody Loves Confetti at a Party
Date: April 30, 2008 | Category: Food & Drink, Kitchen, Lifestyle
My Montessori children (okay, only one is actually Montessori taught) have always eaten off of china when we eat in the house (not the good stuff!), but when they eat outside, I have learned the hard way, we need something a little more durable. Zac Designs offers up a solution to this eco-stumper with the Confetti Group. Though made from plastic it’s 100% recycled melamine (which is EXTRA durable) - making it vastly more eco-friendly than its virgin petroleum counterpart. Plus, it’s better than anything disposable and is supposedly dishwasher safe (I’m a purist, so I just abstain from putting any plastic into the dishwasher and opt for hand scrubbing). Confetti may not showcase your youngsters favorite Disney character, but my kids love the vivid colors and fun shapes. Just in time to brighten up your BBQ.
LIVE for Today
Date: April 29, 2008 | Category: Events, Food & Drink, Lifestyle
LIVE for today…and tomorrow! Far from your typical energy drink, LIVE is a socially conscious, all-natural and organic beverage that donates 50% of its profits to charity. Each of their four flavors takes on a serious issue: Green Tea for Global Warming, Acai Berry for AIDS and HIV, Original for Youth Programs and Sugar-Free for Breast Cancer. Your flavor equals your cause. We are serious green tea drinkers over here - coincidence, I think not! But don’t worry, all of the flavors rock, so maybe a little rotation is called for - spread the love. Don’t despair if you’ve yet to see LIVE gracing your grocer’s fridge; it’s slated to be distributed in over 6,800 major retailers nationwide in the coming months. Oh, and, don’t forget to recycle those cans (aluminum retains most of its embodied energy).
Getting Hopped Up
Date: April 11, 2008 | Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
I am a beer buff - from Chimay to Corona light - I just love sipping a cold one on a hot day, or whenever really, but buying from Belgium or Mexico isn’t ideal, especially when breweries aren’t environmental stewards. 
Wolaver’s certified organic ales are a different breed and have garnered themselves a strong following, and after sipping a pint (or two) of the India Pale Ale, it was no surprise to us. This brewery embodies green with a local, organic, collective and a handcrafted vision that takes the environment into consideration with every step of the beer-making process. Several years ago they became the first brewery to convert their boiler fuel source to bio-diesel and plans are currently in the works for an onsite biomass boiler and power generation facility that utilizes local Vermont wood chips and their own spent grain left-overs. And that’s merely brushing the surface of their green initiatives! The Wolaver team uses the finest local and organic malts, hops, their own special yeast, and, of course, water to create seven ales that will quench your thirst for flavor. Grow up, Vermont is not just for ice cream and maple syrup anymore!
Blondes are More Fun!
Date: April 10, 2008 | Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
One Lucky Duck sent us over a box of their raw, incredibly delicious organic vegan treats, and we just can’t stop eating them (too bad they aren’t calorie free)! It’s no surprise that they are divine since they are the creation of Sarma, the proprietor of Pure Food and Wine, the hippest raw restaurant in New York. The macaroons (blonde or chocolate) are particularly yummy; made from organic ingredients (shredded dried coconut, almonds, maple syrup, coconut butter, vanilla extract,cocoa powder and Himalayan crystal salt), this healthier take on the Passover favorite leaves absolutely nothing to be desired. We are some lucky ducks over here at ecofabulous to be showered with such goodies. Be warned however, these delectables fall under the “once you pop, you just can’t stop” slogan. You should also check out the One Lucky Duck site where they promote the raw lifestyle - from all natural beauty products to bamboo digs for your body and your bathroom.
