Pistachio’s flagship Yonge & Eglinton location in Toronto. Photo courtesy of Pistachio.
Looking for beeswax crayons for the kids? Or perhaps you’re in need of unique note cards printed on recycled paper with soy ink? If your dream store carries nothing but chic, eco-friendly products, you’ll be nuts for Pistachio, a new retail store that opened in Toronto last month.
If you’ve been looking for a great reusable bag that folds in tightly on itself for easy carrying in no time at all then look no further than the keychain that turns itself into a reusable tote put out by GrowKids.
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Image courtesy of Flip & Tumble
Bringing your own bag to the grocery store/bodega/retailer/wherever is pretty much a must these days—Whole Foods has even stopped giving out bags. And well they should--bringing your own reusable bag or tote is too easy and waste-preventative not to. Flip & Tumble knows this, and they’ve come out with a bag that’s not only uber functional, but stylish to boot....
GoodGuide has already made its way onto our top lists for greening our shopping. But its newest prize proves that environmentally friendly shopping is a high enough priority to get some serious attention. ...
OK TreeHuggers - feel like reading news articles about companies and putting in your two cents about their reputation? You're officially invited to do so.
Vanno has just launched a website that puts up user-submitted news content that helps or hinders a company's reputation. Users can vote on whether or not the information in good or bad for the company, and find out where companies rank on issues of concern to customers.
Think you might want to play along? You're invited to be beta testers. Read on to find out how you can take part. ...
The Wall Street Journal ran a fascinating piece a couple of weeks ago on the emergence of the reusable bag as the go-to green choice of retailers nationwide – and the eco-disaster these bags represent.
A lot of leading retailers offer reusable bags – they’re the hip new green thing to be doing… and some municipalities (San Francisco) and retailers (Ikea) have taken the initiative to forbid the use of the ubiquitous "disposable" plastic bag.
But at what cost?
Image courtesy of Scrap Kins
A new website for kids called the Scrap Kins has just launched. It’s an innovative, fun site focused on getting kids to think about recycling via a cast of engaging, friendly monsters who live in a recycling center—the Scrap Kins. The Kins’ brainchild is illustrator and designer Brian Yinnish, who found inspiration for the characters from his own childhood drawings. ...
Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved. Photo by Joel Olives
150,000 honey bees descend and ascend in central Tokyo, and generally fly about. So, OK, I admit it, no horror story or freak-of-nature side effect of global warming here, just a fascinating example of grow local, eat local in the middle of the most populous agglomeration in the world.
The website tells us that "One summer a few years ago, Dara O’Rourke was doing what he’d done dozens of times before: putting sunscreen on his five-year old daughter Minju before she went outside to play in the summer sun. The thought occurred to Dara, "I wonder what’s really in this stuff?" So being a Professor at the University of California-Berkeley, Dara researched the sunscreen. What he found was surprising and disturbing: the sunscreen he’d been putting on Minju for years had a toxic ingredient."
There are quite a collection of cloth bags hanging in my kitchen closet - some washed so many times in the last half-dozen years the different advertising images are faded and barely legible. So perhaps it's not surprising that the bins full of designy shopping bags (mostly from Envirosax) at the Dansk Design Center store were a lot like colorful candy to me on the day I visited.
Reusable bags - how much would you pay?
Image source: Zoica Matei
We've talked about this idea before, but Zoica Matei is making slow-fashion and trans-seasonal fashion her banner. The clothing is designed with healthy, organic materials, but there is also an emphasis on keeping clothing longer and not changing out wardrobes with the changing of the seasons. She creates timeless pieces that are more than just t-shirts with sayings, but rather clothing and outfits that can be worn every day. Items are designed to be worn to work or running errands or going out to dinner, thus giving them more functionality and a longer lifespan.
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