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7 Rings Peace Bronze Bracelet

July 11, 2011 By The Green Beagle Leave a Comment

I have written about From War to Peace before but now that I actually have my hands on some of their items I had to write again.

First of all look at my bracelet! Come one don’t you love it! Besides being so beautiful I have to say my favorite part is the magnetic closure. I know who cares about closures but while I was trying the bracelet on and I held one end of the closure the other followed quickly and snapped shut. I cannot tell you how annoyed I get trying to put on my bracelets one handed. It almost forces you to constantly wear bangles. I am so in love with the 7 Rings design From War to Peace has that I even have the matching earrings. I know it looks simple but the detail where the rings intersect adds bonus decoration. It may seem simple but these pieces are so me.

I wore the 7 Rings earrings and bracelet this weekend and got a multitude of complements which was my goal because then I got to give people a heads up on From War to Peace’s mission. I think how From War to Peace’s products are made is part of the appeal and if I can get more people out there made aware of what From War to Peace is doing it is better for everyone.

Let me not forget to add another extremely important aspect to how awesome From War to Peace is they are an American business. The peace bronze, designs and products are made right here from the mining process to the making of the jewelry!

Product Info:
Our flagship design and our most popular. In ancient times, 7 circles meant perfection. In our filagree piece, the rings of peace form a 7-pointed star, representing the peaceful unity of all nations and faiths. An original design by Jason Main.
The magnetic clasp is very strong and robust. Easier to put on with one hand than a regular ‘Lobster-Claw’ clasp.
The Bracelet is 7″ round, perfect for most wrists.

About From War to Peace
Founders Paul and Sandee Ogren shared a dream of a world without war. They dreamt of a world where bombs are turned into beauty, hate into love, and war into peace. From War to Peace is their attempt to help make that dream a reality.

The story of From War to Peace is a story of transformation:
We recycle copper from disarmed nuclear missile systems to create Peace Bronze, the most precious metal in our world. We use it to make glorious art and jewelry for those who share our commitment to a world without war.
From War to Peace is a green company. We recycle everything, making the old newly useful. Our silver- and gold-plated pieces are created entirely from recycled metals. Our printed paper is all recycled. All plastics we use are biodegradable. Our Peace Bronze itself is recycled from missile system cabling. Even the server hosting our website uses solar technology to power its computers.
From War to Peace is a uniquely American company. The copper we use was originally mined in Montana, then used in the Midwest as wiring in nuclear missile systems before being disarmed. After recovering the copper, the Peace Bronze is made for us at a California foundry. We use casting foundries in New Mexico & CA for our casting. Local artisans turn it into jewelry and art objects here in the U.S.A.
From War to Peace is a giving company. We donate 20 percent of all FWTP profit to deserving peace and social justice organizations in the U.S.A. and around the world.

Filed Under: Product Reviews Tagged With: american, carbon foot print, eco-friendly, Educational, environmentally conscious, from war to peace, green gifts, made in the usa, peace, peace bronze, recycle, recycled products, reduce, reusable, reuse, socially responsible

Ditto Ecological Hangers

July 6, 2011 By The Green Beagle Leave a Comment

Ditto Ecological Hangers

I love clothes! I love my closet but the one thing I don’t love is running out of hangers. I hate when they are mixed with plastic, decorated, wire, or store hangers. I need uniformity!
Hangers are one item, I think, no one really thinks about in terms of green. You think “Hey they are plastic I will recycle them” or wire or which ever ones you may have but in reality does that ever really happen?
I was cleaning out my closet the other day and realized I wanted all new hangers and even more so I wanted “green” hangers. I assumed some kind of green hanger must exist at this point and if so they are probably way cooler than regular old hangers anyway.
When I found eco-hangers at BuyGreen.com I was completely right! They are way cooler than regular hangers. I found Ditto Ecological Hangers, which take up less space in my closet than most other hangers and Ditto Ecological Hangers are as awesomely green as can be!
You can write on them, they don’t get tangled together and you can even decorate them if you want, which you know I do!
Now that I have used my Ditto Hangers my closet looks uniform and I have space increase my wardrobe! I don’t have to put 3 or 4 shirts on one hanger anymore. Ditto Hangers are quite sturdy for paper hangers, even my heaviest sweaters didn’t bend or break them! If you want to get your own Ditto Ecological Hangers click here and get them ASAP!

Product Info:

The Ditto Ecological Paper Hangers replace the toxic, non-recyclable for consumers, retail and dry cleaning businesses. Strong and long lasting, the Ditto Paper Hanger can hold over 20lbs, strong enough to hold the heaviest leather jacket or winter coat. DittoPaper Hangers can fit twice the amount of clothing in the same closet space! They’re great for travel, kids camps or storing clothing.

Features:

- The same heavy-duty, recyclable hangers used on the retail floors of major clothing companies around the world
- 100% non-toxic, 100% recyclable in all paper recycling systems–can even be composted.
- Fits 50% more clothing in small closet spaces
- Non-tangling
- Perfect for college dorms, traveling, vacations, cruises, summer camps and business trips
- Write on them for organizing your clothing or seasonal storing
- Certified to be lead, chlorine, formaldehyde, azo dye and heavy metal free
- Uses only soy-based inks and starch-based adhesives

Buy Ditto Hangers and help to keep 8 Billion toxic hangers from going into landfills every year. With your help, we’re saving the planet one hanger at a time.
Ditto’s award-winning and revolutionary hangers are manufactured from the world’s most recycled materials, Recycled Paper.

Filed Under: Product Reviews Tagged With: buy green, ditto ecological hangers, eco-friendly, eco-friendly hangers, eco-hangers, environmentally conscious, going green, green activities, green closet, green hangers, green home, green living, green retail, green shopping, product reviews, recycle, recycled products, reduce, reusable, sustainable

Is Your 4th Going to be Green?

July 1, 2011 By The Green Beagle Leave a Comment

Green Fourth of July

I understand that the 4th is all about the red, white and blue but let us not for get the most important color in our pallet GREEN! As with many holiday’s the 4th of July is full of over indulgence. You may not be able to keep fireworks from going off but you can do your part to make your 4th of July as green as possible.

1. Don’t use disposables. If you are having a party or going to one please make sure to use reusable or biodegradable utensils. If you prepare ahead of time you can keep the dish use to a minimum and there are plenty of kinds of drink cup markers to keep everyone from using every cup in the house.

2. Purchase your menu as locally and organically as you can. No need to go crazy with your food. BBQ menus can be simple and healthy. No one wants to eat a ton of food on a hot summer day anyway.

3. Keep the noise pollution to a minimum. Fireworks are going to be loud enough so there is no reason to have music blasting at every house on the block. Be considerate of your neighbors, animal and people alike.

4. Get active! It is nice outside go swimming, bike riding, or for a walk. Set up a volley ball or badmitton net. There are plenty of activities you can do on summer days and since the days are longer you have alot of time to stay out and play.

5. Use solar lighting or candles once it gets dark. I know everyone wants to stay out long enough to see the fireworks but don’t leave a million lights on outside it is just plain wasteful. The sun shines much longer in the summer so let solar lighting gather as much as it can to save up for the evening festivities!

6. Don’t use fireworks! There are plenty of community/town shows to see. Fireworks are really harmful to the environment so the less they are used the better. Not only are they dangerous and illegal in some states they are just for vanity. Create your ownhome made light crafts or watch other peoples. You don’t need to celebrate America’s independence with fireworks, create your own less harmful celebrations and traditions. After all that is what we wanted independence for anyway right?

Filed Under: Holiday, Top Story Tagged With: 4th of july, carbon foot print, eco-friendly, Educational, environment, environmentally conscious, green 4th of july, green activities, green holiday, green living, Lifestyle, reduce, reusable, socially responsible

Vers iPod Classic Cases

June 14, 2011 By The Green Beagle Leave a Comment

I love these!! Vers has bamboo cases for your iPod, iPad, iTouch, iPod Nano & iPhone. These are way prettier than any bling-ed out case you could have. You can even decorate them yourself if you like. The natural bamboo look is always the most appealing to me. There is something about bamboo that is so clean and classic. It can’t go out of style. Since bamboo is one of the most renewable resources on the planet you are doing us all a favor by purchasing and using one of these cases.

Bamboo iPod Case

Product Description:
Every Vers wood case is steel reinforced and comes with a soft, scratch resistant lining, and depending on the case design, there are openings for the headphone jack and the charging port.
As with all of their wood sound systems and accessories, for every tree we use in production, we plant 100 through our long-time partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation.
Specifications
- Hand-crafted from solid hardwoods or Bamboo
- Steel pin reinforced corners for added strength
- Soft, scratch-resistant lining
- Durable UV & moisture-resistant clear coat
- Large radii for easy pocket & bag access
- 2.8″ (70 mm) W

Filed Under: Green Home Tagged With: bambbo, bamboo case, bamboo ipod case, carbon foot print, going green, green, green home, green living, green shopping, recycled products, reduce, renewable resource, renweable, reusable, reuse, sustainable

Confettii Wallpaper

May 27, 2011 By The Green Beagle Leave a Comment

As if I couldn’t love Ecoist anymore they have seriously stepped up their game! They have made recycled candy wrapper Confetti Wallpaper! Another super cool added bonus it attaches and detaches with velcro! Omg do I love this store!! I would certainly be the person who would do entire walls in my home with these but the accent shown below is super hot! I cannot wait to see what other colors and designs of Ecoist Confetti Wallpaper are to come!

Confetti Wallpaper

Another thing I love about Ecoist is they are always doing something new. I know for many green businesses it is difficult to constantly produce new items because they are small businesses and products are usually handmade but Ecoist really makes moves. Every time I go to their site they have something new and more creative than their last creation. If you haven’t checked them out yet you are seriously missing out!

Filed Under: Green Home Tagged With: confetti, eco-friendly, ecoist, going green, green home, green living, recycle, recycled products, recycled wallpaper, reduce, reusable, reuse, wallpaper

Recycled Candy Wrapper Spice Rack

April 21, 2011 By The Green Beagle Leave a Comment

Recycled Candy Wrapper Spice Rack

I absolutely love recycled candy wrapper everything! This is the super cutest candy wrapper concoction I have seen yet! The design is beautiful, the colors are fun and your green purchase preserves 1,145 sq. ft of land!

Product Description:
Spice up your culinary arsenal with exuberant colors and sweet, candy-wrapper pizazz. A treat for the eyes, deliciously eco-friendly.

•Iron & recycled plastic wrappers
•16.5″ H x 10.75″ W x 2.75″ D (42 x 27 x 7 cm)
•Handmade in and fairly traded from India

Filed Under: Green Home Tagged With: eco-friendly, fair trade, green gifts, green home, green kitchen, recycled candy wrappers, recycled products, recycled spice rack, recycled wrappers, reduce, reusable, reuse, socially responsible, sustainable

Re-furr-b’d Bunnies

April 6, 2011 By The Green Beagle Leave a Comment

Re-furr-b'd Bunnies

Supplies:

Spoon or funnel
Dried lentils
Sock (even old ones with holes in them you can patch them up later)
Rubber band
Ribbons
Scissors
Felt or fabric from around the house
Pom-poms or cotton balls
Eco Glue

Instructions:

1. Use a spoon or a funnel to add dried lentils to a sock, filling it up just past the heel.

2. Close the sock with a tightly looped rubber band.

3. For the head and neck, tie a ribbon around the sock just below the heel.

4. Add more lentils but don’t completely fill them. Then tie off the head with enough left at the top for ears.

5. Cut the sock’s cuff into two ears, rounding the edges to give them a bunny ear shape.

6. Cut a nose, teeth, and eyes from fabric or other items you have from around the house.

7. Attach the facial features and pom-pom or cotton ball tail with glue.

* Don’t for get to make these bunnies your own! Add hats or jewelry or anything you have that can decorate these bunnies! You can color them with markers or give them patches with old fabric. Make them clothes anything you want! Be creative. They can make excellent toys or projects for parties! Use your imagination!

Filed Under: Activities Tagged With: Activities, carbon foot print, easter craft, eco-friendly, eco-friendly children, Educational, environmentally conscious, green easter, green easter craft, green living, recycle, recycled products, reduce, reusable, reuse, upcycle

TerraCycle Elmer’s Eco-Product Design Contest

March 8, 2011 By The Green Beagle Leave a Comment

Eco-Product Design Contest

Elmer’s® Products, Inc. and TerraCycle®, Inc. challenge students to use commonly discarded materials to create new products. TerraCycle is on a quest “To Eliminate the Idea of Waste&trade,” and the Eco-Product Design Contest has the same goal. Participants will design upcycled products using Elmer’s packaging and/or used classroom materials, and email photos or drawings and descriptions of their design to TerraCycle. Entrants do not have to be part of Elmer’s Glue Crew or TerraCycle’s Elmer’s Glue Crew Brigade© to participate.

http://www.terracycle.net/eco-product-design-contest

Eco-Product Design Contest is open to Schools in the United States. Teachers or Parents may submit entries on behalf of children under the age of 18. Participants may enter by emailing photos or drawings of their designs to TerraCycle to contests@teams.terracycle.net

Contest Summary

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT ENHANCE YOUR ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE OR WIN.

THIS CONTEST IS INTENDED FOR ENTRY IN THE 50 UNITED STATES AND D.C. ONLY AND WILL BE GOVERNED BY U.S. LAW. DO NOT ENTER IF YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE AND LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE TIME OF ENTRY.

OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (“D.C.”), 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AS OF DATE OF ENTRY.

The Contest entry period begins on March 7, 2011 at 12:00:00 a.m. (“Midnight”) Eastern Standard Time (“EST”) and ends on March 28, 2011 at 11:59:59 p.m. EST. Completed entries delivered and checked in at TerraCycle’s facilities between those times will be eligible.

Four finalists will be announced April 4, 2011.

Voting will begin on April 6, 2011 at 12:00:00 am (“Midnight”) Eastern Standard Time (“EST”) and end on April 20, 2011 at 11:59:59 p.m. EST.

The Winner will be announced on Earth Day 22, 2011.

The Official Rules can be found at:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5915891/elmers/elmers_design_contest_rules.pdf
The Sponsors of this contest are Elmer’s and TerraCycle, Inc.

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: carbon foot print, eco-friendly, eco-friendly children, eco-product design, Educational, elmers glue, environmentally conscious, recycle, recycled products, reduce, renewable, reusable, reuse, terracycle, waste

Flipee Polka

March 4, 2011 By The Green Beagle Leave a Comment

Simple Women’s Flippee Polka Flip Flops in Black : Simple Women’s Flip Flops

As I sit and dream of spring the thought of wearing flip flips all spring and summer long makes me happy. I know everyone buys the $5.00 Old Navy flips but here is a much better vegan-friendly alternative. The Flippee by Simple Shoes! The Flippee is made with recycled materials and has no animal products or byproducts in it. The coolest thing about The Flippee is after the warm season, if you are done with it, it biodegrades. The Flippees come in a biodegradable bag with a biodegradable hanger. The sole of The Flippee is also biodegradable! This is some serious Eco-Fashion right here and just in time for the fabulous warm weather! Don’t be left out they come in men’s and women’s styles. Check them out ASAP!

Product Description:
•Women’s The Flippee Polka sandal with recycled PET polka dot webbing straps
•Vegan shoe! No animal products or even animal byproducts
•The foot form inserts are made of post consumer recycled paper
•Water based glue is used to hold the shoe together, not petroleum based. Just another way to reduce our dependence on petroleum, and it also means no nasty smelling glue for the people who put your shoes together
•The sole of the shoe is biodegradable! The midsole is made of EVA with Eco-Pure and the outsole is made of 30% recycled rubber and 70% natural rubber with Eco-Pure added
•The Eco-Pure additive makes the EVA and rubber biodegrade in 20 years in a landfill or compost heap

If you don’t know about Simple Shoes or have never heard about the brand here is a piece of their about us section:

With all the over-built, over-hyped products out there, it’s pretty hard to ﬁnd sustainable shoes that you can live with. So we started Simple, your stereotypical, anti-stereotype brand offering good shoes and a big dose of reality. About a gazillion pairs later… give or take a few… we’ve managed to learn a few things. Well, actually a lot of things. And none more important than this: HOW we make our shoes is just as important as WHY we make them. That means finding more sustainable ways of doing business so we can make a gazillion more.Which pretty much is where we are today… at the crossroads of here and now, aware of our responsibility to the planet while trying to pay the bills. The nice little shoe company getting in touch with its inner hippie.

Filed Under: Eco-Fashion Tagged With: biodegradable, carbon foot print, eco-fashion, eco-friendly, environmentally conscious, green shopping, Lifestyle, recycle, recycled materials, recycled products, reusable, simple shoes, sustainable, the flippee

TerraCycle is Even Cooler Than I Thought!

February 23, 2011 By The Green Beagle Leave a Comment

TerraCycle

I have heard of Terracycle before and even written about some of their products. What I didn’t know is how absolutely cool this company is. I was at work and someone brought in Rainbow Chip Cookies and immediately I noticed the Terracycle logo. Terracycle has a Brigade network which allows you to recycle everything from food wrappers to computers to health and beauty packaging! The best incentive for you less than green individuals is the proceeds are donated to a charity or school of your choice.
TerraCycle was started by a 20 year old Princeton freshman who decided to start reusing empty bottles to ship his organic fertilizer and is now a major up & recycling business that collects from different countries around the world. Anyone of us could be the next Tom Szaky!

About TerraCycle:
TerraCycle’s purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. We do this by creating national recycling systems for the previously non-recyclable. The process starts by offering collection programs (many of them free) to collect your waste and then convert the collected waste into a wide range of products and materials. With over 14 million people collecting waste in 11 countries together we have diverted billions of pieces of waste that are either upcycled or recycled into over 1,500 various products available at major retailers ranging from Walmart to Whole Foods Market. Our hope is to eliminate the idea of waste by creating collection and solution systems for anything that today ends up in our trash.
Founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, then a 20-year-old Princeton University freshman, TerraCycle began by producing organic fertilizer, packaging liquid worm poop in used soda bottles. Since then TerraCycle has grown into one of the fastest growing green companies in the world.

You can start your own Brigade and start earning money towards your charity right here:
http://www.terracycle.net/how-terracycle-works

Filed Under: Green Business Tagged With: Activities, brigade, carbon foot print, charity, donate, eco-friendly, eco-friendly children, Educational, environment, environmentally conscious, going green, green education, green living, recycle, recycled products, reduce, reusable, reuse, socially responsible, terracycle, upcycle

7 Rings Peace Bronze Bracelet

Ditto Ecological Hangers

Is Your 4th Going to be Green?

Vers iPod Classic Cases

Confettii Wallpaper

Recycled Candy Wrapper Spice Rack

Re-furr-b’d Bunnies

TerraCycle Elmer’s Eco-Product Design Contest

Flipee Polka

TerraCycle is Even Cooler Than I Thought!

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