New Reviews on Fancy Green

Howdy! We just posted some new reviews of natural body products on Fancy Green.  Check them out:  Lavera's shimmery clear lip gloss, Weleda's Citrus Deodorant, and hair styling products by Collective Wellbeing. 


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Buy a Bag, Feed the World

If you haven't already heard about the FEED Project, check it out.  They sell cool organic cotton tote bags and tees, and profits feed people in need around the world.  Love it!!

Here's their mission statement from their web site:

"FEED Projects' mission is to create good products that help FEED the world. We do this through the sale of FEED bags, bears, t-shirts, and other accessories by building a set donation into the cost of each product. Thus the impact of each product, signified by a stenciled number, is understandable, tangible, and meaningful.

We take great pride in using environmentally-friendly and artisan-made materials, along with fair-labor production, in creating all FEED products."

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Green Blue Jeans

From the NY Times:

In Eco-Jeans, the Green Becomes Harder to Spot
By ALEXANDRA ZISSU
Published: January 5, 2011

TWO years ago, when going green was red-hot in the fashion industry, there were plenty of organic jeans to choose from. Brands including Levi’s, Banana Republic, Genetic Denim, 7 For All Mankind, Earnest Sewn, Aristocrat, Loomstate, Del Forte and J Brand offered at least one pair made with some amount of organic cotton, which is grown without environmentally threatening chemicals (according to the Sustainable Cotton Project, a nonprofit organization, conventional cotton consumes 25 percent of the world’s chemical pesticides and fertilizers).
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Today, none of the brands do. Which raises the question: Where has all the organic denim gone?

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Recycle, Reuse

 Check out this article from the NY TIMES:

Junkyard Architecture

By ALISON GREGOR

Published: December 16, 2010 

Laura Dante Photography

A shipping container is lowered to the roof of 25 Carroll Street in Brooklyn.

How about a bay window made of an old truck body, or a closet made of red wine barrels? Or even a home framed in steel from melted-down submarines. That time may be fast approaching.

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Holiday Sales

Loomstate is one of my favorite eco fashion labels, so I'm always scanning the web for sales! I just found a few bargains on Yoox.com. They have both men's and women's Loomstate tees and jeans on sale. YEA!! Click on photo for link.



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Be Fancy, Be Clean

EO Products All Purpose Soap is one of my favorite green products from 2010! I use it for everything, every day! Click on photo for link.



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Eco Apps

Want to stay in touch with green news?  Download eco apps for your iPhone!

Eco App by AT & T - has info on recycling and eco events.

iGreenpeace - is a free app that features information on global warming and links to news feeds from Greenpeace.

Ecosnoop - is an environtmental awareness tool that helps users learn more about energy efficiency.

I don't have an iPhone, so I haven't sampled these apps.  If you have, please contact us and tell us what you think of them.

Click for: Top free apps on the App Store


Click for: Top paid apps on the App Store

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Solar Power in Africa

Check out this article from The NY Times on solar power:

African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power

IPTUSURI, Kenya — For Sara Ruto, the desperate yearning for electricity began last year with the purchase of her first cellphone, a lifeline for receiving small money transfers, contacting relatives in the city or checking chicken prices at the nearest market.

Charging the phone was no simple matter in this farming village far from Kenya’s electric grid. Every week, Ms. Ruto walked two miles to hire a motorcycle taxi for the three-hour ride to Mogotio, the nearest town with electricity. There, she dropped off her cellphone at a store that recharges phones for 30 cents. Yet the service was in such demand that she had to leave it behind for three full days before returning.

That wearying routine ended in February when the family sold some animals to buy a small Chinese-made solar power system for about $80. Now balanced precariously atop their tin roof, a lone solar panel provides enough electricity to charge the phone and run four bright overhead lights with switches.

“My main motivation was the phone, but this has changed so many other things,” Ms. Ruto said on a recent evening as she relaxed on a bench in the mud-walled shack she shares with her husband and six children.

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