Here is a beautiful and eco-friendly gift for Mother’s Day, a Japanese Maple in a Biodegradable pot from Delight.  The pot is made from Rice Hulls and contains the seeds to grow this stunning little tree right in your own home.  It is also available in Heirloom Lavender for $16. 

If your mother is the Jewelry type there’s a number of responsible jewelry options that will satisfy any tastes. Here are just a few…

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Rather than sending a paper card that will travels by truck and by plane to ultimately end up in a drawer until some distant spring cleaning, go paperless!  A fun way to do this is with VIDiGREET’s video greeting cards.  VIDiGREET has greeting you can send for free, or you can sign up for a subscription, $15 a year, and send unlimited VIDiGREET greetings.  They are cheap (or free), eco-friendly, and will make mom laugh!

Addition (5/5/08): 

VIDiGREET’s MILLION MOMS FOR MOTHER EARTH PROMO:

When one million of you sign up, not only will you be able to send unlimited VIDiGREETs to your Mom (or heck, even our Moms) we’ll pass the net proceeds directly to the Energy Action Coalition and their project ClimateChallenge.org. Our goal is one million. But regardless of the final number, we will be donating whatever the total net dollar amount is to this environmental advocacy organization. Click here to view full details. So do it right now. Or we’ll have to put you on time out.

Thanks for the heads up Jeff!

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What mother doesn’t love gift baskets? And what mother doesn’t love it when you put a little time into the gift? Try putting together your own eco-friendly gift basket. Start by getting a cool fair trade and recycled basket from Original Good. Now fill it with fun Green gifts! Here’s a few ideas…

Flip & Tumble Bag $12	Tree Free Journal $13	Organic Lotion $3+
Handmade Necklace	Solio Charger $99	Eco Chocolate $5
Beeswax Candles $6+	Organic Sauce $6+	A Going Green Book

We know not everything you buy is going to be Green but here’s a great site that allows you to give back with every purchase, without spending anymore than you normally would have. The site is NonProfitShoppingMall.com (NPSM). NPSM has partnered with large online retailers like Dell, Staples, Amazon, GAIAM, Macy’s… who have agreed to pay a sales commission to any sales that are made through NPSM. NPSM then give that commission to a charity that you choose from their list of approved non-profits like the Sierra Club or the Rainforest Alliance. Each retailer determines their contribution level which is published on the site. Just flipping through I saw contributions as low as 0.5% for The Apple Store, and as high as 7.5% for the Ecoist. With Mother’s Day coming up if you didn’t find anything in our Green Gift Guide and you are going to resort to buying mom a gas powered chain saw at Home Depot to level the tree’s in the back yard amidst the noise and gas fumes :o( at least you can make the purchase through NPSM and have a portion of your purchase go to the Sierra Club.

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For wine loving moms try the Ceago Sauvignon Blanc gift box. Ceago is truly memorable estate grown, certified organic and Biodynamic wine. It is paired with roasted, organic pistachios and our freshest, sweetest-of-the-season, organic pears to set off the notes of melon and green apple in the Sauvignon Blanc. Combine this with some beautiful wine glasses made from recycled wine bottles for an elegant, eco-friendly Mother’s Day gift.

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Moms with a green thumb will appreciate this pre-seeded indoor/outdoor garden-ready heirloom tomato pot. All mom has to do is stick it in the ground or in her kitchen to grow delicious, juicy heirloom tomatoes. This eco-friendly container garden is made from renewable & biodegradable rice husks. it is freeze and thaw resistant, has built in drain holes, keeps its shape and texture for about five years. You can get this for only $20 at Uncommon Goods!

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For a truly unique and enjoyable gift, give mom a Numi Organic Flowering Tea set. Each set comes with bouquets of flowering tea and a Numi glass tea pot. Here is Numi’s description of flowering tea…

Flowering Tea is a new tradition that celebrates the tea leaf. Hand-picked, organically grown, premium white tender tea buds, top two green tea leaves, and golden-tipped black tea are hand sewn into bundles or rosettes with cotton thread by artisans in various regions of China. When steeped in hot water, these rare Leaves of Art slowly blossom into breathtaking shapes. The tea liquor releases a myriad of flavors from sweet and subtle to rich and bold.

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While we prefer flowers that you can plant, if you’re going to get her some she can’t, why not at least get her some from Organic Style. Organic Style is a company committed to sustainable practices. These beautiful flowers are French Tulips. They are Veriflora certified which means they came from grower that have sustainable crop production, fair labor practices, eco-friendly practices, and support the local community. Organic Style has a variety of other stunning and organic flower arrangement that are available for overnight delivery.

This Mothers Day send her an eco-friendly card and flowers all in one. Bloomin’ Flower Cards sells a variety of greeting cards printed on 100% post-consumer paper, and printed with soy-based inks, and organic pigments. Plus these cards have flower seeds built into the paper, so mom can plant the card and it will bloom into beautiful flowers she can enjoy for months!