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Beans72 Herringbone Buckwheat Bears
Teddy bears made with 100% cotton cover, filled with 100% natural triple air cleaned USDA Organic buckwheat hulls or a buckwheat and dried organic lavender mix. (Adorable lavender-filled sachet bears with lavender-colored covers also available).
Pompeii Organics
More than 70 USDA certified organic essential oils and carriers. “We are a small company in central Pennsylvania that meticulously sources Certified Organic, unsprayed, and wildcrafted essential oils, carriers, infused oils, and hydrosols. In 2015, we completed the USDA Organic Certification process. We offer over 60 Certified Organic essential oils, hydrosols, and carriers. We source Certified Organic products whenever possible. You will see that many of our oils are unsprayed or wildcrafted. Because it is important to source the oils from their native lands, some oils can not be sourced as Certified Organic…We label each bottle with the batch number, country of origin, cultivation method, distillation method and the distilllation date.”
Jacobsen Salt Co.
“Harvested from the cold, pristine waters of Netarts Bay on the Oregon Coast, Jacobsen Salt Co.’s flake and kosher sea salts have gained much critical acclaim for their beautiful and pure taste, texture, and appearance, and are used by chefs and home cooks around the world. We are proud to be the leader in the emerging vanguard of American Saltmakers, as well as first company to harvest salt in the Pacific Northwest since Lewis & Clark. In addition to an extensive assortment of pure sea salts and infused sea salts, Jacobsen Salt Co. also produces a line of salty confections, cocktail salts, seasonings and spice blends.” Also various prepared food products that use this salt as an ingredient.
BeeThinking
In our world where last year beekeepers across the United States lost 44 percent of their honey bee colonies, maybe more of us need to consider backyard beekeeping. Here on this site, home beekeeping has been simplified. Everything you need to be a beekeeper is here. “All of our beehives are crafted at our mill in Portland, Oregon using kiln dried Western Red Cedar from the Pacific Northwest. We use these same products in our own apiaries and we love to pass on our knowledge of natural beekeeping to beekeepers new and old.”
Carved Wooden Spoons
Woodenware items you can’t find anywhere else…wooden spoons of all shapes and sizes. From tablespoons, to teaspoons, the wooden spatulas, to the more exotic shaped kitchen utensil, there’s a wooden cooking utensil for every kitchen and occasion. All of my utensils are handcrafted and with proper care can last to be passed down generations. I use sustainably harvested wood and I’m dedicated to making a 100% all natural wood product that will be enjoyed for a lifetime.
Arbor Teas
Our daily mission is to find the world’s most fantastic organic teas and deliver them to you as sustainably as possible. From our exceptional collection of organic and Fair Trade Certified® teas, to our Carbonfree® business practices, to our backyard compostable package, our passion is steeped in a desire to do worldly good, and our vision is to remain organic to a tea.” They have a wide variety of teas, plus teaware, and lots of information about tea and how to enjoy it.
Lalune Naturals
Natural and organic ingredients for making your own skincare products, plus instructions and how-to videos.
Millstores
Ready-to-finish wood furniture for every room in your home, made from a number of different types of wood.
Seventh Generation Sells Out to Unilever
Well, the world is changing.
Pioneering green products company Seventh Generation was just purchased by Unilever for $700 million.
It was actually an emotional shock for me to get this news
I remember when Seventh Generation was started in 1988. It was just before Earth Day 1990 and the book 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth, which brought awareness to the mass market that what we do in our homes every day has an effect on the environment—for better or for worse.
Seventh Generation really was the first company to develop products with health and environment being the guiding star. And they did Read more about Seventh Generation…
For Seventh Generation to sell to Unilever…it’s the end of an era. Seventh Generation was an innovator, they were visionaries who changed the marketplace. And now decisions will be made based on mass market values instead of life values.
All I can say is thank goodness for all of the small businesses that are independently producing toxic free products. Please support them.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Unilever Buys ‘Green’ Products Maker Seventh Generation
France Bans Plasticware
France has become the first country in the world to ban disposable, plastic cups and dishes.
The new law, which passed last month, requires all single-use cups, plates and other dishware sold in the country to be compostable and made at least partly of bio-sourced materials. Businesses have been given until Jan. 1, 2020 to comply.
A ban on plastic bags has been in place since July.
The decision to do this was made based on environmental considerations—France currently throws away more than 4.7 billion plastic cups every year. But it will also reduce exposure to toxic chemicals in plasticware as well.
Manufacturers, of course, are opposing the law, asserting that lower-income families regularly use disposable tableware because they can’t afford reusable tableware. I can’t agree with that argument. I once was living in a rented apartment by myself and I had one fork, one spoon, one knife, one plate, one bowl, one cup, and one glass. That’s all one person actually needs. Anyone can obtain these for practically nothing at any thrift store.
I think this is a good move, but we also need to consider the use of disposable products altogether. It is possible to have a society where everything is reusable and biodegradable. We don’t need plastic at all. Indeed, as a species we survived perfectly well without it until the twentieth century (the first plastic was bakelite, invented in New York in 1907).
ASSOCIATED PRESS: France to bid adieu to plastic dishes with controversial ban
