The iLand is a portable solar-power system designed by iLand Green Technologies. This green gear is perfect for camping in the great outdoors. It’s only 20 pounds and can separate into two pieces that fit perfectly in a backpack. If you’re someone who loves camping with different electronics, the iLand is perfect for you. The iLand generates 200 watts of electricity directly from the sun. It features 2 USB ports, as well as the universal cigarette lighter port for an array of different electronics. (more…)

Very crunchy-granola indeed. Green Waves creates these earthy-looking bracelets from upcycled sea glass and leather. Each bracelet features a lovely piece of aqua blue or sea foam colored glass – uniquely-shaped and polished by the ocean’s waves and mounted on a rugged one-of-a-kind leather bracelet.

$16.50 @ green wave’s etsy shop

The Compassionate Diet: How What You Eat Can Change Your Life and Save the Planet by Arran Stephens with Eliot Jay Rosen published by Rodale. $17.99 (All net proceeds from this book will be donated to charities that support a positive, vegetarian lifestyle.)

The Compassionate Diet is a beautiful little book, packed with useful info, bound to change the way you look at food and how it impacts your health and the health of the planet.

Author Arran Stephens is the founder of Nature’s Path Foods, North America’s largest organic breakfast foods company — he should, and does, know plenty about nutrition and health. He’s been active in the holistic health movement for the past 45 years, and as he says, “I’ve witnessed many dietary fads come and go, but a balance and natural vegetarian diet is neither a fad, nor a passing trend.”

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