Handcrafted by the Pink Martini on Etsy, these pretty baubles caught my eye: The Kate earrings feature vintage lucite flowers in moss green with Swarovski crystal in olivine green. $15
Gotta admit, I’m feeling a big St Paddy’s vibe comin’ on … hope you’re ready.
I’ve always liked the idea of transforming an everyday item, like the ubiquitous postal shipping tube – into something unforeseen – in this case a handy, utilitarian stool.
Italian designer Piero Ceratti looked at the common postal tube and envisioned a useful raw material. His stool design features 5 postal tubes and plastic end plugs held together by high performance glue.
The biodegradable, spiral wound cardboard tubes, which usually perform as economical protection for mailing or storing rolled documents such as posters, maps and charts, here become a handy portable stool.
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A green stimulus package of a different sort – our latest roundup up of upcoming earth-minded news & special events.
- Eco fashion Alert: We have 2 free all-day passes to the AFINGO Fashion Forum at FIT in NYC on April 1. If you’re interested, just leave a comment on this post and we’ll connect. It’s an exciting opportunity to attend a series of panel discussions and meet & mingle with sustainability movers and shakers – Julie Fehrenbacher of Inhabitat, and eco activist & model Summer Rayne Oaks; Fashion Designer Cynthia Rowley to name a few. Event schedule and details @ Fashion Forum. Learn more about Afingo.com.
- Whole Foods presents an environmental film fest called, DO SOMETHING: 6 films, one month, 70 cities, includes NYC. Don’t miss it – from April to mid-May. (more…)
Practically everyone is Irish for one day a year, St. Patrick’s Day. If you’re intending to wash down your yearly trough-load of corned beef & cabbage 
with a beer or twelve you may want to venture a little further into green and sample one of these organic beers.
- A brewery with a great name to accompany its tasty line of organic brews – Bison Brewery distills a nice assortment of USDA Certified organic Ales – ranging from the traditional India Pale Ale (IPA) to acquired tastes like Gingerbread Ale and Chocolate Stout. To be found primarily in California where it’s brewed.
For midwesterners, Milwaukee’s Lakefront Brewery has been making tasty and eclectic beer since 1987 and, in 1996, became the first certified organic brewer in the U.S.. In addition to ales, lagers and seasonal brews Lakefront now offers gluten-free beer.
Another Cali brewery, Eel River Brewing Company makes a mean certified organic line of handcrafted ales and lagers. What’s not to like about an outfit that makes fine tasting libations and sports the tagline and credo, “Be Natural – Drink Naked.” Eel River can be found nationwide.- Another west coast brewery – Butte Creek Organic Beer features the humble tagline, “The Official Beer of Planet Earth.” This outfit handcrafts a full line of organic ales, lager, pilsners and porters.
- For New Englanders planning on hitting the streets of Beantown, Portland or Worcester for that yearly pub crawl, you may want to search out the tasty brews of Maine’s Peak Organic Brewery. They make a full assortment of ales – our favorite – their sweet Maple Oat Ale. Peak’s brews are made with ingredients from local organic farmers – including Vermont organic maple syrup.
- If you prefer an organic pilsner or Euro beer, you can find the sweet and aromatic Bavarian organic beers of Neumarkter Lammsbräu’s (pictured above) at many of your local Whole Foods stores.
Oh, one more reason to drink….St. Patrick wasn’t even Irish, he was actually born in England, the son of a wealthy English family…
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