If you have read a newspaper, turned on the television, or browsed the internet, you know it is cool to be green. Resolve today to be a Green Goddess. Make ecologically friendly choices as you plan your party.
Join the sustainable food movement by creating a menu based on seasonal foods, grown or produced locally. The fewer miles the food needs to travel to get to your table, the fresher it will taste and the less carbon footprint you will leave. Likewise, use flowers and plants grown organically and locally. Local Harvest is a wonderful source for regionally grown flowers and foods
Buy eco friendly products. Plum Party has two pages of what they call Eco + Green + Environmental including biodegradable tableware, bamboo utensils,corn based plastic ware, and handmade fairly traded napkin sets. Or better yet, skip the disposables altogether — consider renting glassware and china or use your own. Don’t worry about it all matching — one of today’s hottest trends is to mix and match!
Umi green Shweshwe fabic napkins are handmade entirely of natural, 100% South African cotton, and is fairly traded.
Consider giving earth friendly party favors such as seeds, starter herbs, or reusable bags
Personalized “share and blossom” seed cards<
Place your emergency kit items in a bag made from recyclable materials such as candy wrappers, juice boxes, plastic bottles or choose natural and renewable fibers.
Eco-handbag
Use a digital invitation — it is easy, fast, and paper free. However, sometimes, a beautiful paper invitation still works best. Consider using only invitations printed on tree- free or recycled paper with non toxic ink.
Bella Figura not only donates a portion of their annual revenues to environmental organizations, they reduce our carbon footprint by using only wind power, print sustainably, and use environmental papers. Plus, their invitations are gorgeous.
Use water bottles manufactured from renewable resources and consider using only organic wine and vodka. Again, the less miles a product needs to travel, the lower the carbon footprint.
Biota Spring Water
Organic Wine
Vodka
Even kippot (Jewish ritual head coverings) come in eco-friendly designs!
Eco-Suede Kippot
Carry the health and wellness concept beyond the party and into your home … be a trend setter. Demonstrate that environmentally friendly can be chic too.
Organic Cotton Towels
Bath Tissue
Bike-Blended Soap
Organic Cotton Fiore Sheet Set
Oriental Pattern Reversible All-Weather Floor Mat
Large Flip-Flop Doormat
Market Basket
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Gaiam invites you to live consciously, in harmony with the environment, the planet and the people who share our home. From yoga & fitness DVDs to nontoxic cleaners, we bring you eco-friendly products and healthy living solutions to help you live your best life. Discover tools and products for health & wellness and green & sustainable living from our catalogs and online collection:
Health and Fitness – yoga and Pilates mats and equipment, workout clothing, exercise DVDs… Green Living – green household cleaners, organic cotton bedding, natural fiber clothing, fair trade home decor… Personal Development – meditation, spirituality, holistic wellbeing, alternative therapies…
Coming Soon …. a green theme party decor package.
Party Hearty!
