Shiny Suds, Shiny Suds ~ in your cleaners

Bog Action Day 2009

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Green Garters! Environmentally friendly, mix-n-match wedding garters

The first-ever, green garters are environmentally friendly (and chic) wedding garters made from recycled plastic bottles. the background and accent colors can be mixed and matched to find your perfect style. so, be you and be green!

Check out Juliann Smith's Green Garters HERE

GUERRA DE LA PAZ

Cuban born artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz are the creative forces behind the name GUERRA DE LA PAZ and through a common aesthetic create works with a universal message.

"Using recycled objects as our medium and the guidance of the unrelenting amounts of information that fuel today's mass consciousness and it's subversive parallels. Allowing us to explore ways to reinvent historic themes and classic icons while still commenting on contemporary culture.

. . .Gaining access to an overabundance of discarded clothing - relics that once helped define an individual's personality and communally speak of environmental issues, mass consumption, and disposability - opened the doors for us to working with garments as a material. We often see ourselves as vehicles guided by their essence and silent histories."




They also have a blog

Happy Birthday Plantable Card

from RetroWhale

This plantable card is made from recycled paper and is embedded with wildflower seeds. Card comes with planting instructions, an envelope, and is packaged in a 100% biodegradable clear bag. Card is blank on the inside so you can write your own personalized message.

10% of proceeds from plantable cards go to a wonderful charity that is definitely worthy of your help.
Ace of Hearts-www.aceofheartsdogs.com/index.html

Miss Rio Ottoman

Tthe Miss Rio Ottoman (2003) is an eco-friendly design crafted out of a soft rubber made from recycled flip flops. In addition to keeping industrial leftovers out of landfills, Miss Rio repurposes the soft rubber without any further manufacturing. The raw material is used as is.

A smart, ecological design, Miss Rio provides comfortable, firm seating and is suitable for outdoor use (although colors may fade if exposed to sunlight for extended periods).

Together with the Gueto Company, Karin Wittmann Wilsmann's design is manufactured by social organizations that provide work for otherwise unemployed craftspeople from the local community.Honored as a finalist for a 2004 Premio Planeta Casa, or Home Planet Award, granted by Casa Claudia, a leading Brazilian magazine for architecture and interior design. Miss Rio was also recognized as a finalist for IF Design Award 2004, as well as the 2003/2004 Ecodesign Award sponsored by Fiesp/Ciesp, which encourages the use of design as means to conceive environmentally friendly products. Because the strips of EVA can be pulled out, caution is recommended for use around small children. Made in Brazil.


I love this! ...and it's on sale ...from $350 to $175 Here @ Design Within Reach

TreeLife Australia - Summer 2010

We are excited to announce that our first offline event, TreeLife by The Cool Hunter, will be unveiled in Australia before touring the globe.

This event will showcase innovative and creative sustainable architecture, and illustrate that green can co-exist with urban city life.

The world's first major public exhibition of 'green design' treehouses, TreeLife will bring the biggest names in international architecture, design and art into the one public place for the first time, showcasing cutting edge green and sustainable design.


TreeLife launches in Australia - Summer 2010 >

Eco-Friendly Cascade House | Paul Raff

The multi-Award winning Eco-Friendly Cascade House by Canada-based architect firm Paul Raff Studio, is equipped with solar design systems.

"We always start from first principles of human scale and flow, and in search of opportunities to engage light and landscape, once we began to work with glass and slate, the house became characterized by a powerful material presence that is activated as these materials come alive in response to natural light.

Architect Paul Raff

VERTICAL VEGETABLES ~ A Shoe Pocket Garden!

Amazingly Clever.





Vertical Veggies: Grow a Garden in your Shoe Organizer

''How to solve a problem like cats digging and toileting in the vegetable patch, and growing veg in a very small garden. I needed a solution and the answer occurred to me after watching The CheIsea Flower Show on TV and seeing walls of flowers and herbs. The only thing I had to hand was a hanging pocket shoe store and I decided to use it to grow my plants in. I have included the dates I took the photographs to give readers an idea how quickly the veg grew.

Happy Earth Day 2009!

Ali G on the Environment - watch more funny videos

What easy steps have you taken since Earth Day 2008 to help erase your carbon footprint and make a better world for our children?

* Earth Day Tote Bag Giveaway *

In honor of Earth Day 2009, which falls on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 this year, I am delighted to try to get more of you to use canvas totes instead of throw-away retailer bags ...on every shopping trip, not just the grocery store ...by giving away beSmart beGreen eco canvas totes bags.

There will be THREE WINNERS!!

FIRST WINNER RECEIVES 3 TOTE BAGS OF CHOICE

SECOND WINNER RECEIVES 2 TOTE BAGS OF CHOICE

THIRD WINNER RECEIVES 1 TOTE BAG OF CHOICE

Contest ends on Wednesday April 1st {lol} ...so I have enough time to get the bags to you so you can at least use them on Earth Day {but I'm hoping you'll use them year round!}

* RULES *

YOU CAN ENTER AS MANY TIMES AS YOU'D LIKE!
Entries I will include:

1. Followers {on ...love Maegan}
2. Comments
3. Comments on SmartGreenBlog.com
4. 5 extra entries for anyone who steals this image, blogs about it and links to either www.loveMaegan.com or SmartGreenBlog.com

There is no need to include your email addresses in the comments, if you win, you can email me your info then ...{if you prefer anonymity, you may comment anonymously but include something you can remember yourself by if you win.}


* Good Luck *