Monthly Archives: November 2009

Naturally Nora Cookie Cookie Cake Mix Super Sale

A Cyber Monday sensation to sink your teeth into, this natural cake mix is due for a huge discount in Amazon’s Cyber Monday promotion. (Keep your clicking fingers nice and limber around 12pm PST to snatch up the best price) This 100% natural cake mix has no artificial ingredients, colors, preservatives, hydrogenated oils, dairy or soy, and is completely kosher. I did notice that it is manufactured in a facility that also handles … Continue Reading »

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Hey, You Put Your Beer on My Village People!

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Tune-tastic Christmas Gifts – Recycled LP Record Coasters Looking for a great gift for that music lover in your life? Check out these eco-friendly recycled Vintage Vinyl LP Record coasters from Vinylux. Vinylux has a unique selection of LP record coasters, party bowls, and even 45 rpm Record Clocks in several fun genres – Rock, Country, Crooners, Heavy Metal, Soul and 70′s/80′s Pop. These hand made 4″ recycled record coasters are fun conversation … Continue Reading »

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Black Friday Sale on FEED Bags an Eco-Friendly Life Saver

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In the true spirit of earth friendliness and Black Friday super sales Amazon offered a Black Friday Week Lightning Deal on the World Food Programme Feed Bag. The Feed Bags which are normally $35 were on sale for a whopping 71% off which made them only $10. While the big Black Friday sale may be over these eco-friendly FEED bags help support a fabulous cause – feeding school children so they can focus … Continue Reading »

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Save the Endangered Ice Cream Bean Tree – Help Plant A Billion Trees!

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I knew it – there IS such a thing as an ice cream tree (I’m still looking for the money tree, I’ll let you know when I find it). The Ice Cream Bean Tree is found in Central and Southern America. It is called the ice cream bean tree because it produces bean pods up to 1 meter long which contain a sweet, juicy, white pulp that has a soft cotton wool texture … Continue Reading »

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Warm Winter Night with Ed Begley Jr’s Eco-Friendly Life

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Last Spring I read a short little interview with Ed Begley Jr. about how to cost effectively green your home. At the time he was helping Natural Health Magazine choose the winners for the 2009 Green Choice Awards. He gave a few green tips we all hear often but procrastinate on implementing like rain water collection barrels for watering house or garden plants – (at this time of year for us in the … Continue Reading »

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Bye Bye Siggy BPA Free ThinkSport Bottle Giveaway

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Did you miss out on the free Sigg return program for their bottles containing BPA like I did? Well, don’t fret you have the chance to win an even better water bottle from ThinkSport. (plus BPA Sigg’s make a great vase for flowers) I’ve been reading about the thinksport bottles made by thinkbaby and they sound like a much better product. First off they are double walled and vacuum sealed stainless steel – … Continue Reading »

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Earth Friendly Photo Friday – Spooky Style

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Anybody Home? Welcome to another edition of Earth Friendly Photo Friday, and what better way to celebrate Friday the 13th than with a spooky iridescent photo. I love the lighting in this photo and the spooky vibrant green. It is certainly reminiscent of any number of those classic horror films like Friday the 13th. (Hello, Anybody there…) You’ll have to give some great feedback to Sylvain and check out his other earth friendly … Continue Reading »

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DIY Wood Coasters: How to Make Wood Coasters

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I was looking through a box of junk in the closet this morning and I came across several disks of a cedar branch that had somehow found their way into my possession – probably for some art project that was never finished (or started for that matter since I still had the wood disks). I though to myself “what in the world can I do with these?” Coincidentally this evening I was searching … Continue Reading »

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