Green Living Web Highlights: Handmade Goodies, Raising Baby Green, Organic Cocktails, Visualizing the Green Movement
Healthy Happy Hour
What’s your poison? To help you keep celebrating the New Year, Cocktail Organico can enhance your Happy Hour with more organic options. Whether you like tequila, vodka or wine, there are many types to choose from. If you are a vegan or vegetarian, you might enjoy Casal Dos Jordoes Tawny Port, which is vegan and made from certified organic grapes in Portugal. Don’t know much about alcoholic beverages? Read their reviews and you will be a connoisseur in no time.
Green Parenting and Baby Products
Babies need so many things, and it’s natural to want to give them the best of everything. Now you can give them the eco-friendliest toys, clothing and vitamins. Two online stores provide some great items for baby green: First, Tiny Birds Organic Baby & Family provides you with all of the products you need to keep your baby organic. Some of their cutest products include knit veggie rattles, wooden animals (alligator, ram, bear, etc.) and lion dolls. Their toys are visually stimulating, and they can be handed down to your next child or donated to a second hand store. Also, OrganicGreenMommy has a ton of information, articles, recommended products, and videos about raising baby green and keeping mommy green too. There’s a blog for mom and one for green daddy too.
Handmade Goodies are Better for Planet Earth
Do you enjoy making or buying homemade crafts? Maybe you look forward to a local craft show. Items with a homemade touch seem more endearing, and they are certainly more unique than anything you can find at brand name stores. Cut+Paste sells homemade products such as totes, necklaces, tunics, slippers, etc. These are one-of-a-kind pieces that can accessorize your eccentric or simple wardrobe. If you are a crafty individual who makes environmentally friendly creations, consider selling your products here too.
Healthy Happy Hour
What’s your poison? To help you keep celebrating the New Year, Cocktail Organico can enhance your Happy Hour with more organic options. Whether you like tequila, vodka or wine, there are many types to choose from. If you are a vegan or vegetarian, you might enjoy Casal Dos Jordoes Tawny Port, which is vegan and made from certified organic grapes in Portugal. Don’t know much about alcoholic beverages? Read their reviews and you will be a connoisseur in no time.
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Paper or Plastic
Paper or Plastic?
By Christie NashApril 16, 2009File under: Environmental Concerns, Health, Products
If you haven’t already converted to the reusable canvas bag, you may still be pondering the old question: Is it better to use paper or plastic?
Unfortunately, the answer is never clear-cut (no pun intended), as the excess use of both of these resources can be detrimental to our environment.
While one may be more biodegradable or easily recyclable than the other, the amount of resources and energy it takes to produce the product may negate that argument. For instance, not only are we having to cut down trees to make paper cups, but in fact, more petroleum is used to make paper cups than polystyrene cups. However, polystyrene does not biodegrade and can therefore be potentially harmful in the long run.
There is no question that both paper and plastic are used prolifically, and in many different forms, in the packaging of products. And although most forms of paper and plastic can be recycled, both of these products are still found ubiquitously in landfills.
While it may be easier for some to have an “out of sight out of mind” mentality when it comes to the disposal of the waste we produce, if we looked a little closer at the chemicals used to produce most packaging from its natural state, and the potential harmful consequence they could have on our health, we may reconsider that canvas bag.
If you deem paper the lesser of two evils, be sure to look for paper packaging that can actually be recycled. Many paper products cannot be recycled for various reasons, including the binding glue, which is difficult to breakdown, and prevents the product from being reused. Also, the chemicals that are used in the glue, and the pollutants emitted through the processing of the woods can contaminate soil, water, and the air we breathe.
However, if plastic is the packaging of choice, be sure to avoid, wherever possible, the following two chemicals:
1. Bisphenol A can be found in many items that we use everyday, such as hard-plastic water bottles, baby bottles, and food jars. Bisphenol A is acutely toxic, and the toxins can leach from the plastic into liquids, especially when the containers are heated or scratched.
2. Phthalates are chemicals used to make vinyl and other plastic materials soft and flexible. Phthalates are present in many different commonplace items, such as toys, food storage containers and wrappers, carpets, car interiors, and anything made of PVC. Phthalates are classified by the EPA as a probable human carcinogen, meaning they most likely cause cancer at certain concentrations.
Like Bisphenol A, many foods contain phthalates that leech from their plastic packaging, especially when food and plastic are heated together.
By Christie NashApril 16, 2009File under: Environmental Concerns, Health, Products
If you haven’t already converted to the reusable canvas bag, you may still be pondering the old question: Is it better to use paper or plastic?
Unfortunately, the answer is never clear-cut (no pun intended), as the excess use of both of these resources can be detrimental to our environment.
While one may be more biodegradable or easily recyclable than the other, the amount of resources and energy it takes to produce the product may negate that argument. For instance, not only are we having to cut down trees to make paper cups, but in fact, more petroleum is used to make paper cups than polystyrene cups. However, polystyrene does not biodegrade and can therefore be potentially harmful in the long run.
There is no question that both paper and plastic are used prolifically, and in many different forms, in the packaging of products. And although most forms of paper and plastic can be recycled, both of these products are still found ubiquitously in landfills.
While it may be easier for some to have an “out of sight out of mind” mentality when it comes to the disposal of the waste we produce, if we looked a little closer at the chemicals used to produce most packaging from its natural state, and the potential harmful consequence they could have on our health, we may reconsider that canvas bag.
If you deem paper the lesser of two evils, be sure to look for paper packaging that can actually be recycled. Many paper products cannot be recycled for various reasons, including the binding glue, which is difficult to breakdown, and prevents the product from being reused. Also, the chemicals that are used in the glue, and the pollutants emitted through the processing of the woods can contaminate soil, water, and the air we breathe.
However, if plastic is the packaging of choice, be sure to avoid, wherever possible, the following two chemicals:
1. Bisphenol A can be found in many items that we use everyday, such as hard-plastic water bottles, baby bottles, and food jars. Bisphenol A is acutely toxic, and the toxins can leach from the plastic into liquids, especially when the containers are heated or scratched.
2. Phthalates are chemicals used to make vinyl and other plastic materials soft and flexible. Phthalates are present in many different commonplace items, such as toys, food storage containers and wrappers, carpets, car interiors, and anything made of PVC. Phthalates are classified by the EPA as a probable human carcinogen, meaning they most likely cause cancer at certain concentrations.
Like Bisphenol A, many foods contain phthalates that leech from their plastic packaging, especially when food and plastic are heated together.
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