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Ecostore USA Giveaway Winner is….

Carmen !!!! Your comment #25 won! Congratulations Carmen!! I am going to forward your e-mail to ecostoreUSA so that they can send you the discount code for the $25 gift certificate. I am grateful that so many of you wanted to try all natural products from ecostoreUSA. I really believe it’s important that we eliminate nasty chemicals from our lives, starting with detergents, soaps, cleansers, and all the other household [...]

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World Series Baseball is going GREEN!

Remember my recent post about sports that are NOT so green? Well, read this article from Mother Nature Network about how this year’s World Series is going green! Short excerpt……. “Working with the MLB’s “Team Greening” Program, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) will be out in full force at Game 2. Clad in NRDC T-shirts, these hardy and apparently cold-resistant environmentalists will be roaming the aisles of Yankee Stadium [...]

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Fabulous Friday Featured Seller – Melissakate

Melissakate is owned by a printing artist who makes linoleum prints by carving out the designs and block printing on note cards, stationery, tags, and any paper forms. Many of her artwork is done on eco-friendly paper and card stock and uses biodegradable plastic sleeves to ship her artwork. Cats or dogs? Dogs Star Wars or Sleepless in Seattle? star wars definitely!!! Fruit or chocolate? both at the same time [...]

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Apple Hill Cake

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I don’t think I posted a recipe on ecokaren before. But I wanted to share this recipe with you because I just made this cake today with Honey Crisp apples that my mom gave us and it was goodelicious – a word my daughter made up. We couldn’t possibly eat all these apples so I decided to make this cake and “use up” some apples. (I ended up using only [...]

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NYC is the most eco friendly city in the country!

I had an unexpected opportunity to walk around NYC  last Friday when I visited Ecostore’s launch at Duane Reade.  I lived in and around NYC for the last thirty years and honestly, I never paid attention to what the big deal was about my city. I mean, why would people be jealous that I lived in NY? OK, so we have theaters, museums, restaurants, shopping, landmarks, and millions of eclectic [...]

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Ecostore’s Launch at Duane Reade in Herald Square, NYC

I don’t usually meet the people behind the products I review but I had a great opportunity to meet the wonderful people from Ecostore last Friday. Ecostore joined forces with Duane Reade in New York City (NYC) and it launched its line at the newest store on Herald Square, opposite from Macy’s on 34th Street and Broadway. Ecostore products will be in all Duane Reade stores in Manhattan beginning of [...]

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Fabulous Friday Featured Seller – Twlight Visions

Twilight Visions is owned by an environmentally conscious jewelry artist who gets her inspiration from mother nature. Rachel grew up in the wildest, most untouched state of Alaska, so it’s only natural a lot of her pieces reflect such raw beauty. Recently, she has gone back to school to pursue a degree in Biology with a concentration in conservation. This life changing decision was roused by her profound affection for [...]

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Couch surfing; eco-friendly sport?

My husband loves college football and last weekend was his weekend of non-stop college football madness. At one point, he didn’t know which channel to flip to and which game to watch. But as he screamed with every passe and touch down, all I could think of was all the toxic plastic that went into making the astro turf that these kids were rolling around in and all the plastic [...]

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