Bee Condo
October 13, 2009 by anthony · Leave a Comment
Do you love having a great garden or flowerbed in your backyard? Some people have massive, beautiful gardens that include brightly colored flowers and gorgeous plants. However, to really get the most out of your flowerbed, you need your flowers to get pollinated. Bees are a great method for this, but how can you attract bees to your backyard? Easy—set up a bee condo.
The bee condo is a very inviting place to the orchard mason bees. These bees can be found just about anywhere in the United States, and they will help pollinate just about all types of flowers and other plants. Now, if you’re scared of being stung by bees, you may be thinking that a bee condo is the last thing you want around your home. However, the good news is that the orchard mason bees are non-stinging. In fact, they are very gentle insects and won’t cause you any harm at all.
The bee condo is made from recycled wood, specifically reclaimed fir, so it’s very ecologically friendly. On the off chance you don’t have any orchard mason bees in your area, the bee condo also comes with information on ordering bees (yes, you can actually order them). It also tells you how to attract bees to the condo and gives you information about various companies that can help you order your bees.
Having a great garden is possible without bees, of course, but having a number of orchard mason bees in your garden to help pollinate flowers is an easy way of boosting your garden’s appearance. It makes it easier for your flowers to grow and reproduce, and that means less work for you as a gardener.
Eco-Friendly Personalized Coffee Mugs - ECOMUG
May 24, 2009 by Jay Valente · Leave a Comment
EcoMug is based out of California. They personalize ceramic 15 oz mugs and 20 oz EcoBottle's using organic water-soluble inks. Water bottles are clean-tasting and made from a ZERO BPA, non-leaching polypropylene, known as pp#5. These products are reusable, and 100% recyclable.
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Order one mug today with your name and logo and get a FREE ECOMUG with your co/workers name. (Includes full color logo and personalization, no minimum, and no set up charge.)
The Pacific Garbage Patch, is a garbage stew twice the size of Texas floating off the coast of California
Green personal "name" branding on coffee cups
Recycled Gift Wrapping Paper
May 24, 2009 by Jay Valente · Leave a Comment
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Buying Green Gifts
May 9, 2009 by anthony · Leave a Comment
It seems like there’s always some occasion we need a gift for. 
If it’s not Christmas or a birthday, it’s Mother’s Day, graduation, a wedding, Valentine’s Day, a get well gift, a housewarming…the list of occasions seems to go on and on. While all of these gifts will, obviously, do some damage to our bank accounts, they can also cause some damage to the environment if we don’t carefully examine the gifts we buy.
There are many different gifts out there that are environmentally friendly, however. The most obvious is to buy someone a plant, and that’s a very appropriate gift for many occasions (housewarmings, get well gifts, Valentine’s Day). However, you can only purchase someone so many ferns and violets before they start to wonder about you. There are many other gifts that you can purchase that are green. Here are just a few of them.
Buy someone a gift certificate to a spa. Most spas are environmentally friendly, and they’re very relaxing.
Concert tickets or a pass to an art museum or history museum create very little waste.
For those who love to talk on the phone, the solar powered Bluetooth cell phone speaker from Scosche takes no batteries and works in the car so the driver isn’t distracted by trying to hold their phone and talk at the same time.
For the crafty types, take used paper and turn it into origami. Make a string of a thousand cranes as a wedding gift (it’s considered good luck in Asia) or create some crafty puppets and other toys for kids. As a bonus, this type of gift requires your time and creativity but not a lot of cash.
Finally, many places are now selling tumblers and other glassware made from reclaimed and recycled glass. These tumblers are great for housewarming gifts.
Greener Home Ideas - Recycled Glassware
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Recycled Material Footwear By Terra Plana
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Eco Friendly, Energy Efficient iPod Speakers: The Vers 2X
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The Katadyn Pocket Microfilter Endurance Series
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Green Patagonia Atom Shoulder Bag
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Patagonia Eco Rain Shell Jacket
September 7, 2008 by Jay Valente · Leave a Comment
One of the original pioneers, and darlings of the eco-set for their all-weather gear and environmental activisim, Patagonia took a major step forward in accountability this year with the launch of the Footprint Chronicles. Read more
