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Our Mottainai Furoshiki Video, Sustainable Carry Cloth

Our Mottainai Furoshiki Video, Sustainable Carry Cloth

Upgrade A couple days ago we wrote about Mottainai Furoshiki, the use of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth as a sustainable alternative to disposable bags, wrapping paper, you name it…  We loved this idea so much we started using it right away.  We made this video to show how easy and fun it is…

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Veja Sneakers - Organic, Natural, Renewable

Veja Sneakers - Organic, Natural, Renewable

Upgrade: $125 Organic fair trade cotton, ecological leather (chrome free tanned with organic compounds) and natural latex are the ingredients to Veja shoes. Based out of France, Veja is on a mission to aid our ill earth. Their rubber is renewable and biodegradable, their cotton has been tediously restricted to the most ethical criteria, and their [...]

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1Hotel - Seattle’s Green Residences, Spa and Hotel

1Hotel - Seattle’s Green Residences, Spa and Hotel

Upgrade: $250+ If you are in the beautiful northwest part of the US in the Seattle area there is an urban paradise worth its weight in gold. 1Hotel is Seattle ’s premier residence, spa, and hotel featuring many prominent green attributes. With an on sight grocer carrying organic produce and open air design this is just [...]

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Qwerty Hairband by Greenergrass Designs

Qwerty Hairband by Greenergrass Designs

Upgrade: $14 When I was in college I took apart my roommates keyboard and nailed the keys to his door to give him a friendly greeting. Maybe not the best use for someone else’s electronics but Secco has a creative idea with the Qwerty Hairband. Taru Norberg is the designer behind this product. Even better [...]

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Rayskin Nose Rider Wood Surfboards

Rayskin Nose Rider Wood Surfboards

Upgrade: $4800 Investing in a surfboard that is beautiful, finely crafted, high performance, unique, and made of rich wood veneer is a perfect way to compliment the beauty of a perfectly pealing wave. Rayskin surfboards offer an unreal alternative to the cookie cutter punch out foam/glass boards that bob in our seas these days. Although the [...]

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Greener Tobacco, Plasencia Reserva Organica

Greener Tobacco, Plasencia Reserva Organica

Upgrade: $50 Ok so we all have our vices. If perchance you do in fact enjoy your tobacco it doesn’t mean you can’t be green about it! Since being more green is a process following a spectrum towards improvement (like any human being must do herself) each choice we can make towards the positive makes a [...]

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The New Water Power with HydroPak

The New Water Power with HydroPak

Upgrade: $TBD The HydroPak give you and your tech gear the power boost it needs, when you need it, wherever you are in need. Using fuel cell technology by Horizon this power pack can recharge a laptop, cell phone, and yada yada yada. Why is this a better alternative? Using the Hydropak, which also incorporates technology [...]

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Plumen Luminary - Low Energy Light Bulb

Plumen Luminary - Low Energy Light Bulb

Upgrade: $TBD We all know the three mundane shapes the high efficiency light bulbs come in these days. They are rather unsightly and are often hidden as best they can be by shades. Plumen is throwing conventional design to the wind and making the bulb itself the attraction point with their sweeping, wispy, and alluring [...]

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8" Go Green Stoplight Pendant Lamp

8" Go Green Stoplight Pendant Lamp

Upgrade: $240 Go green literally with a reclaimed traffic light lamp. Green Light Concepts has delivered a creative use for piles of trashed traffic light lenses that were on their way to the landfill. Made of solid glass and fabricated into beautiful fixtures, both hanging and standing, these lights come in the three basic traffic light [...]

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Sushi Hyacinth Daybed

Sushi Hyacinth Daybed

Upgrade: $3,600 Hyacinth is a renewable and fast growing material that can be woven together creating marvelous fabric like coverings. The Sushi Daybed uses woven hyacinth over a rattan frame to create a mellifluous structure. Like bamboo, the growth rate of hyacinth is astounding and is adapted to perfect functionality and beauty with the Sushi Daybed. [...]

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