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In honor of the new President-Elect, the economy not doing well at all and just to greenwash a little, We have a bunch of goodies here to giveaway. ... A Guayaki t-shirt, a Go Appetit t-shirt, a hemp bag from HTnaturals, many Very Super Cool Greeting Cards, Smart Spice Flash drive, stickers, a few Leafygreen.info pin, a handmade Record Bowl made my me and maybe some other fun stuff just for the hell of it! So leave a comment here, the contest ends December 30 and winners will randomly be selected.

What I like most is that you can recycle the bottle and in most places you can’t recycle juice boxes due to their waxy paper. All three of my kids (ages 5, 3 and 1) have liked both flavors of bot we tried (lemon and orange). ... In other news, Zinio is giving away millions of free subscriptions to digital magazines, including Outside, Yoga, Green Source, Vegetarian, and more, and I thought you might be interested in letting your readers know about this opportunity.

However, in today’s mail were six different flavors of organic hard candies by Hillside Candy’s Go Naturally brand . ... What was especially nice was you could actually taste the unique honey flavor – it was not some generic sweet taste. ... The cherry and pomegranate were fruity and sweet but did not necessary taste like their respective fruits.

Talking Rain ’s Twist produces water that has organic fruit additives in the mix. The West Indies Lime is very good and I enjoyed the water, but I could do it myself and I wouldn’t waste a plastic bottle. Yes, the bottle’s recyclable, but it’s water with lime.

Two word sum up this product. ... The green tea is subtle, the cane sugar is sweet and the mango brings it all together so nicely that I threw down the bottle in roughly twenty seconds. I want more, but don’t just read this review, go get to the store and buy Sweet Leaf Tea’s Mango Green Tea.

I tend to keep a pile of them in my trunk, and on my frequent shopping trips, I simply grab and go. ... If it weren’t for this convenience, my spontaneous shopping trips would end up with an overflow of double-bagged plastic hell. ... They must be cool if they are being sold at Urban Outfitters... one of my favorite stores.

If I had to choose between last year’s camping trips bug spray of choice, All Terrain Bug Spray, and Bugger Off by aS, I’d go with All Terrain. ... Some fun and useful features include; the pocket at the foot that lets fresh air in all the time, unless you close it of course; the mummy/hood area and the hanging straps for both drying it out and packing it tightly. ... In fact, the candles are positioned so they are actually in a holder mounted on a spring so when the candle burns down, it moves up and appears to be a the top of the lantern the entire time.

Blueberries and khaki pants do not match, but Greensleeves Garment Care in Long Island, NY did a mighty fine job cleaning the pants in a green, toxic-free way and left no trace of the blueberry incident. ... I said that they removed ther blueberries from my pants, but they also cleaned my favorite argyle sweater. This sweater is light and delicate, so I was nervous, but the cleaners did a great job.

If I had to choose between last year’s camping trips bug spray of choice, All Terrain Bug Spray, and Bugger Off by aS, I’d go with All Terrain. ... Some fun and useful features include; the pocket at the foot that lets fresh air in all the time, unless you close it of course; the mummy/hood area and the hanging straps for both drying it out and packing it tightly. ... In fact, the candles are positioned so they are actually in a holder mounted on a spring so when the candle burns down, it moves up and appears to be a the top of the lantern the entire time.

Pinot Grigio, shiraz, merlot and more, are carefully paired with the ingredients, and they end up succeeding in providing a great, and very different, taste. ... The second was that as opposed to many jarred puttanesca sauces, which are ridiculously spiced, the heat of this one was slight and subtle. ... I realized later that the added spice was provided from the wine, like a good Pinot Grigio would, as opposed to hot pepper flakes.

The System Preferences for the new MacBook and MacBook Pro's have gone green. Here's our extra Leafygreen.info version of what they look like.

Solay Simple Laundry Soap It is hard to talk about Solay Simple Laundry Soap with Himalayan Salt as It does in fact clean the clothes but does not leave any sort of smell at all. ... Solay Simple Multi-Purpose Cleaner Solay Simple Multi-Purpose Cleaner with Himalayan Salt was a little different than the laundry soap as you can definitely smell the salt in the mix. On small clean up jobs you only need a little spray but on thicker stains you need to spray a lot and let it sit for a minute.

Reed’s Apple Cider is naturally brewed from fruits, herbs, roots and spices, which are aged like wine. With its sparkling filtered water, apple juice, fresh ginger root, lemon juice and cinnamon you would never know it is non-alcoholic. For Apple Cider fans Reed’s Spiced Apple Cider could give others a run for their money.

She had a really cute reusable bag but it was stolen hence the review of Flip & Tumble. I particularly like that the Flip & Tumble 24-7 bag is so easy to roll into a ball. The ball I keep in my purse when shopping and in one easy step it becomes a shopping bag when grocery shopping.

I felt, however, that I wouldn’t be able to provide an accurate, if not coherent review on my own, so I enlisted my buddies John, Chris and Chris to do a group taste test over a friendly Friday night card game of High Low Jack. ... Here are our results: Drink 1 – Vodka & Blueberry Martini Mix I thought the blueberry mix was awesome, and the Square One blended well with it. ... John was indifferent, Chris K said there was no doubt that the organic was better, while Chris S said if he had to choose, he’d choose whatever was cheaper.