Eco Friendly Product Guide

Have you had a chance to wear Bamboo yet?  Soft as silk and made from one of the most sustainable fibers on earth, bamboo is now being made into everything from hand towels to haute couture.  This EcoSkin dress is an excellent use of bamboo for a spring/summer ensemble.  Perfect for an afternoon event it combines sumptuous fabric with beautiful blue and white hues.  It is made in the U.S., which means high-quality, ethical workmanship and careful design.  You can purchase the EcoSkin Sassafrass dress in a range of sizes from Gretchen & Grace for $172.

Designer Sara Kirsner has come up with Doie Designs, an eco-friendly bamboo collection that is incredibly stylish and comfortable. According to her Website, each piece of clothing is made from a combination of bamboo jersey, and 100% silk trim.

One stylish item in particular is from the Harusame Collection. The Harusame Empire Cami is very sleek and form fitting, and is an excellent addition to any woman’s wardrobe. This typically runs for $62, but has recently been on sale for $43. Either way or, it’s quite the deal for something this stylish. You can also order directly off of DoieDesings.com, making it your one stop for stylish, eco-friendly clothing.

Browse from a number of Kirsner’s collections. There’s a lot of really nice clothing on the website, and it all holds true to Kirsner’s mission statement.

Let’s be honest, when it comes to environmentally friendly products, “bamboo” is a word that shows up quite often. When you think about it, this makes sense…it grows fast, and is easily renewable. It looks nice, and you don’t have to settle for a lackluster product. It’s super strong, and there are lots of stylish things made from bamboo.

Enter the Spring Chair, created by the folks over at Modern Bamboo. This mod chair comes in a cherry, ebony, or natural finish and is available from Vivavi.com for $690 (add $20 if you desire the cherry or ebony finish). It’s sleek, looks really cool, and would be an excellent addition to that home or apartment you have just growing with eco-friendly products.

If you like the style of the Spring Chair, there are many more stylish things to be found on the Modern Bamboo Website. Feel free to stop by and take a look, you might find many other items to your liking.

Christmas time and the holidays always have a feeling of warmth associated with them. Perhaps that’s why fuzzy items, blankets, or just things geared towards keeping one warm are so popular during the holiday season. For the eco-friendly connoisseur, bamboo is also very popular. Therefore, it’s a win-win situation when attributes of both are combined to result in a warm, fuzzy, bamboo blanket.

Without a doubt, bamboo is one of the most rapidly renewable resources on the face of the planet. In addition, bamboo can be used to make numerous products – from fences, to even blankets. Yes, that’s right – at only $69.99, this bamboo throw blanket can make an excellent gift. Measuring 60×90 inches, this blanket can be used anywhere – as an extra throw blanket on the couch, to a tailgating blanket, to just extra cover for the winter – if you can use a blanket, this one will fit in perfectly. It’s a nice gift to give to someone because it shows that you care about the environment, but you are also looking out for them as well.

Whatever the reason for the season – Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa – there’s always a search for a gift. At times, it can be looking for that perfect gift that can become troublesome; especially if you are searching for an environmentally friendly gift idea. This is not to say that there aren’t plenty of eco-friendly products, goods, and services available for the season, but sometimes it takes a little bit of searching to find them. However, the searching can pay off in a big way this holiday season, when you give that perfect gift to a friend, family member, or lover and see the delight in their eyes. Lucky for you, we’ve done some of the legwork for you, and found an excellent eco-friendly holiday gift idea:

The Eco-friendly Gift Basket.

There’s no finer eco friendly gift than an eco-friendly gift basket. This gift basket comes with a few environmentally sound goodies: a 27. oz Kleen Kanteen stainless steel reusable water bottle, a set of 4 reusable nylon shopping bags, and a recycled bamboo utensil kit. The water bottle ensues that water can be used over and over and bottles can be kept out of the landfill. It’s an enviro-friendly solution to having those bottles end up there – it sometimes takes up to a thousand years for plastic water bottles to biodegrade. Just say that slowly – a thousand years! The reusable shopping bags have the same effect…they help keep plastic bags out of landfills as well! The recycled bamboo utensil kit is really great as well – it’s made in India, under fair wage standards – thus allowing workers to earn up to three times what they would normally make instead! This gift basket truly is an eco friendly mecca of greatness that just keeps giving and giving.

It’s a perfect pairing of gifts, for only $69.99!

Christmas is usually identified with red and green, but this year, we’re thinking it will look best if it’s just green. We’re loving eco-friendly gifts for the holiday season, and these bamboo sheets are at the top of our list going out to the North Pole!

Thread count of sheets is often important. We all have the friend who really gets obsessive about it. However, if you really want to blow someone’s mind with the most comfortable sheets ever. These 100 percent bamboo sheets are possibly the greatest sheets ever owned. At $179.99 for a set, they may seem a bit expensive, but they are well worth it. They make an excellent gift for the holiday season, and if you are looking to buy an eco-friendly gift for your friend who is just nuts about the environment, these are a great purchase. They are so great for mother earth because there is less processing required to turn them into sheets, and when all is said and done after a few years of use – you can literally throw them into a composter and return them back to the soil. These sheets are without a doubt, a package deal. Good for the environment, and possibly the most comfortable sheets ever made – you can’t go wrong.

A handbag is an important accessory to have. As many will tell you, one can never have too many purses. There are ones to go with different outfits, ones for different occasions and handbags that were simply impulse buys while you are walking around the store.

In keeping of the tradition of unique bags, there is also one that is made from recycled material, and looks really cute, too. The Hand Bag available from Chopstick Art is (as the name may lead you to believe) made from recycled chopsticks. In addition, the lining and strap are both made from hemp, making this bag a nice, eco-friendly way to carry all your stuff.

This bag available from Chopstickart.com will only set you back $32, which is a small fraction of the price of some of the purses you see being carried around these days.

Cali Bamboo has found a great, eco-friendly green solution to that backyard fence. They manufacture Bamboo Fence Products that will spice up the look of your lawn.

While it is true that normal fences come from wood, bamboo is sustainable resource, and a little bit more environmentally friendly than that stained wood fence you have in the backyard that is just rotting away over time. Not to mention, a bamboo fence will be unique, and you will become the envy of all your neighbors.

Start the new trend. You can request a quote off of the Cali Bamboo website when you look into their fencing. It’s a green solution to that tired old fence you have wasting away in the backyard.

I can remember the Simple Shoe Company starting out when I was a kid. We were skaters, and it seemed like a great idea to have another skate shoe on the market. Since then, the Simple Shoe Company has stepped up it’s game considerably. They have come out with the Green Toe Shoe Line, which is very eco-friendly and is a perfect way to keep your wardrobe stylish, while still doing something good for the environment.

One shoe in particular that comes to mind is the Men’s Toemorrow. This stylish shoe is made from washed organic cotton and linen uppers, has bamboo linings, uses water based chemicals, has 100% post consumer recycled paper pulp foot forms, and jute shoe laces!

Lots of information is available on the website relating to Simple’s commitment to creating eco-friendly, green products. Have a look around, chances are there is a shoe that will be exactly what you are looking for.

The shoes are $90 a pair, and come in a variety of colors.

There are other styles offered by simple as well, for both Women and Men.

Would you like to own a Bamboo Mountain Bike? No, I was not sure I wanted one either until I read the specifications as they apply to this extraordinary piece of machinery. I mean, did you know that properly treated bamboo is stronger than wood? I did not know that.

So that is why CalfeeDesign makes mountain bikes with eco-friendly frames and not frames made out of fossil fuel guzzling, carbon emission spewing other materials.

As Calfee proudly says of its Bamboo Mountain Bikes: “These bikes are more crash tolerant than carbon mountain bikes which is why do not offer them to the general public.” (Carbon fiber frame bikes are the specialized racing frames made by Calfee.)

To see the full specs of the various sizes in which this extraordinary item is available, visit the Calfee website. If you decide to go for it, the bamboo frame alone will set you back $2695.00.