Salt of the Sea
Date: January 2, 2009 | Category: Featured, Food & Drink, Holiday & Gift, Kitchen, Lifestyle
Need a little inspiration in the kitchen? Look no further than the ubiquitous answer to all dry, drab dining disasters – salt. But this isn’t just any old table salt. This stuff is magic. Forty Oaks Farm’s salt bouquets are culinary bliss, a simple solution for any kitchen quandary. (more…)
Happy Holidays
Date: December 25, 2008 | Category: Featured, Holiday & Gift, Lifestyle
Wishing you a happy holiday season from everyone at ecofabulous! We hope you are spending the days with friends and family (and good food!). We are so thankful for all our amazing readers and look forward to a great next year!
Cheers,
Team ecofabulous
No Time to Waste, the New Year is Upon us!
Date: December 19, 2008 | Category: Featured, Holiday & Gift, Office, The Home
Take a look around your desk. Aside from photo booth pictures, a rainbow array of highlighters and your prized rubber band ball, there’s probably not a lot of inspiration to draw from. An easy, eco-friendly update that’s sure to inspire is the 2009 letterpress calendar from Delphine Press. Complete with a mini easel for easy desktop display, the calendar has charming images of flora and fauna surrounded with elegant design details. (more…)
Mrs. Claus is a Striper
Date: December 17, 2008 | Category: Holiday & Gift, Home Furnishings, The Home
There are eco-accessories for the whole family at Pottery Barn. Getting colicky environmentalists off on the right side of the crib, they have a cute organic baby line. PB Teen’s line of organic bedding is essential for any tween. But Mr. & Mrs. Claus shouldn’t have to towel off with pesticides either! Pottery Barn’s Mason Stripe Organic Bath Towels are festive but not seasonal enough to garner ho ho ho’s the rest of the year. (more…)
‘Tis the Season for Eco-Gifting
Date: December 12, 2008 | Category: Events, Holiday & Gift, Lifestyle
The holiday season is the most drastic example of unconscious consumerism - we are usually so busy that even the most thoughtful of us forget our priorities. Taking the planet, the economy and the individual into consideration this year is easier than ever! If you like buying thing in person and live on the west coast there are a couple of year of expos that make the one-stop eco shop a reality. The Eco Holiday event in San Francisco and the Eco Gift Festival are great places to see many things in our eco gift guide come to life.
The first annual Eco Holiday event is a local shopping experience, presented by the Urban Alliance for Sustainability (UAS), a non-profit co-op based in San Francisco. This is a kid-friendly shopping event that boasts clowns, elves, jugglers and magicians!
The Eco Gift Festival in Santa Monica is devoted to alleviating the difficult emotions, inconveniences and terrible waste created by the conventional shopping experience. With 93 percent of all waste from the event diverted from the landfill, you can trust that these folks are committed to the cause. This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, enjoy great music, organic food and enlightening speakers in addition to the great gift getting. Stock up for family and friends knowing that 10 percent of the gross proceeds will be donated to The Whole Planet Foundation and Global Green USA.
P.s., Santa requested some Vosges organic chocolate instead of those stale cookies kids keep leaving!
*photo courtesy of Eco Gift 2007
Pangea Has a Special Offer for ecofabulous Readers!
Date: December 8, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Holiday & Gift, Skin Care, ecoMan
Talk about quadruple bottom line… a product that creates a profit, allowing for fair wages, supports the planet and now is good for your bottom line! Pangea Organics has a great gift idea to let you in on the joy of doing good while smelling good. After two years in development, Pangea just released a series of holiday gift boxes that actually grow Spruce Trees. Pretty smart, right? The “Harmony” Holiday gift set is featured in this year’s ecofabulous Holiday Gift Guide. (more…)
Coveting Coco
Date: December 1, 2008 | Category: Holiday & Gift, Lifestyle, Media, Resources, Women
Thanksgiving is past (though leftovers are likely to last well into next week) and it’s time to officially turn the focus towards the holidays. While you still may need a little break from all the traveling mayhem and family entertaining, there’s no better way to relax and regroup than with a cup of morning java and Coco Eco Magazine’s December Holiday issue, which conveniently debuts today. (more…)
Don’t Be a Turkey: Entertain Greenly this Holiday Season
Date: November 20, 2008 | Category: Food & Drink, Holiday & Gift, Kitchen, Lifestyle
Chekhov once famously wrote, “People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.” It isn’t that entertaining isn’t enjoyable, just that hosting holiday celebrations can be stressful, especially if you are trying to make more eco-friendly choices around the house.
But preparing an organic meal and decorating with an eye towards sustainability needn’t be nerve-racking since there have never been more green products on the market. You just need to know where to look. This year, ecofabulous has done the shopping for you (OK, you still have to purchase the bits you want, but we make it easy!). (more…)
Top Ten Sites for Holiday Shopping
Date: November 14, 2008 | Category: Featured, Holiday & Gift, Lifestyle, Media, Stores & Resources
With our holiday gift guide just around the corner we wanted to give you a sneak peek. Here is our list of the top ten sites for easy ecofabulous holiday shopping. Enjoy!
1. Amazon Green
The Future Smells Rosy
Date: October 24, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Holiday & Gift, Lifestyle, The Home, Women
What ecofab girl doesn’t love to receive a dazzling, fragrant bouquet in the middle of the week, especially for no reason at all? But all those toxic pesticides sprayed on commercial flowers can leave a bad after-smell.
Now divas can enjoy the locally-sourced blossoms they deserve from Organic Bouquet. The company features the most eco-friendly packaging in the field (sorry, we couldn’t resist), along with the first carbon offset program. We’re particularly fond of the charitable bouquet line, which benefits select nonprofits, such as the gerberas (shown) that fund the National Wildlife Federation. But regardless of which flowers you pick, a rose by any other name won’t smell so sweet.
