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It’s Time to Show Your Love Using Local Flowers

This Valentine’s Day, Slowflowers.com urges us all to support local farmers and florists by choosing sustainable, American-grown bouquets for our loved ones. Even though the retail flower market is strong ($7-8 Billion per year), stats show that only 2% of roses sold annually are actually grown in the USA. Slowflowers.com has nearly five hundred florists committed to sourcing their flowers from the USA, and they are looking to you to help them drive business away from the 1-800 tele-florists and their imported bouquets. Slowflowers.com has launched a farm-to-vase crusade and aims to make Valentine’s 2015 a flower revolution. This year, florists are turning down 1-800 orders that flow into their businesses every February – choosing instead to deliver only domestic flowers and foliage to their customers. Debra Prinzing, founder of Slowflowers.com has faith that you will make the right choice if you are given the options. “Fifty-eight percent of consumers would rather …

How to Be an Eco-friendly Beauty

From GreenGuide Being beautiful doesn’t have to be cruel to the environment. Apparently, there are a lot of women who don’t seem to care with the environment and its inhabitants as they continue to splurge on fashionable items that are either made of fur or animal skin, which are all prohibited because of the cruelty that most fur and animal skin manufacturers do to the animals. Despite PETA’s ongoing rage on such cruelty, fashion junkies never seem to give a second thought on it. On the one hand, some women love to have great skin to look beautiful, making use of products that contain microbeads and toxic chemicals that only provide temporary glow, but permanent damage to both their skin and the environment. These instances are all heartbreaking. If all women will practice how to become an eco-friendly chic, staying beautiful will surely be easy since the environment will not be as polluted as it is today. The very first thing that you should consider when wanting to loo…

Survey: 60% of Americans Resolving More Environmentally Responsible Lifestyles in 2015

from Sustainable Brands Three in five Americans say they will make a New Year's resolution to live a more environmentally responsible lifestyle in 2015, according to a nationwide public opinion poll released this week by advocacy marketing consultancy Tiller, LLC. The survey is the latest in a string released this year that point to Americans' deep and growing concern for the environment. When asked which factor posed the greatest long-term threat to their health and wellbeing, Americans chose climate change and environmental problems (45 percent) above terrorism (35 percent) and global epidemics such as ebola (21 percent). This prioritization is consistent with Americans' increasing concern over global warming and the belief expressed by more than half of all respondents (57 percent) that the condition of the environment has worsened over their lifetime. The Americans surveyed expressed a growing resolve to take personal responsibility for the environment: A w…

Your Guide to Obtaining Fresh, Organic Produce in The Middle of Winter

Don’t you love the endless array and options of fruits and vegetables you get during the summertime? It’s like a free for all and anything we want we can grab for the taking. As lovely as it is to enjoy copious amounts of veggies and fruits in the summer it tends to get a little tougher for us in the winter months. It’s especially harder to find organic and on top of that it’s more expensive. Here are a few tips for obtaining organic produce during the winter time. 1. Know when to buy organic Every fruit and vegetable that you buy does not need to be organic. There are certain fruits and vegetables that have the highest pesticide residues. These are the ones you need to worry about. They call these “The Dirty Dozen.” They also put out a list called “The Clean 15” which includes items that have very low levels of pesticide residue. These items are avocados, sweet corn, pineapples, cabbage, onions, sweet peas, asparagus, mangoes, papayas, kiwi, eggplant, grapefruit, cant…

7 Ways to Eco Your Secret Santa

The holidays are a time of joy, giving, family, and celebration - and also a time of mass consumerism. From Black Friday lines around the block to stampedes at Wal-Mart, 'tis the season of shopping, wrapping, and exchanging. For those who are sensitive to the environment and want to extend sustainability into their holiday gift-giving practices, there are some eco-friendly alternatives to consider. The Taiga Company, a sustainability consulting firm, presented this list of 7 Ways to Eco Your Secret Santa. Check it out here. For more sustainability tips, follow @TaigaCompany on Twitter.

The Noiseless, Waveless, Freaky Fast Watercraft of Tomorrow

Meet the Quadrofoil. Silent, Smooth, Eco-Friendly and Freaky Fast. This eco-friendly, electric-powered personal watercraft offers zero emissions but maximum fun as you navigate lakes, rivers and oceans at up to 40 knots…making even a James Bond escape seem sedate. The innovation is in the patented hydrofoil technology that allows the craft to float above the water as wing-like blades called hydrofoils create lift beneath the surface of the water. Quadrofoil is the first all-electric, totally environmentally friendly watercraft and can even be taken to marine-protected areas. Its patented hydrofoil steering system, automatic balancing, stabilization and airtight top module renders this two-person watercraft almost unsinkable as it cuts silently through waves up to 20 inches high. Want One? Simple. Place and order and deposit and you may just have delivery by March of 2015. You can expect to pay in the $20k range for this 2-seater, which can be pay for itself in one summer …