Shopping All Green Style
We've established that I love me the online shopping...and so much the better if it's shopping for all things green and eco-fuzzy. There's this fab shopping site, specializing in home decor, dubbed BranchHome.com that stocks not just products crafted from sustainable materials but also cutting edge in style.
Witness if you will the snugly, hand crafted "Family Pillow No.1" featuring a one-of-a-kind rendering of you, your family and your fuzzy friends on a shell of 100% organically grown hemp. (Alternate style "Family Pillow No. 2" is similar, but rectangular.)
Or the sexy lines of full-length chaise lounge fashioned from cork, a.k.a. reclaimed waste material from the bottle-stopper industry. I'm picturing myself all stretched out chaise-style on the sun porch already.
I beseech you to go and poke around the site. You'll find treasures big and little...bits like towels made from 100% sustainably harvested beech wood fibers, the elephant puppet hand-knit by women who belong to a collective of knitters in rural Kenya and organically grown bamboo bowls. Be sure to check out the full line of wacky, yet stylish furniture.
So says the folks at BranchHome: Just as the willingness of a once-small number of consumers to seek out (and occasionally pay a premium for) organic produce is now changing the face of food production and consumption, we believe that we - and more importantly, you - can drive meaningful change in the world's product-consumption habits, purchase by purchase.
So says me: if you're compelled to buy, buy responsibly.
About this blog
Roxanne Kotzman is a Daily News Photo Department veteran of nine years. When she and longtime friend Stacy Long
discovered their love all of all things environmentally responsible, they launched Happy Monkey Planet and jumped head-first into the vibrant eco-community.
Wow, so much to learn! But initially the idea is a pretty simple one: Let's change the world through information, education and action.
Rox & Stacy are a lot like you: ecologically minded but sometimes just plain overwhelmed when charged with the task of making a far-reaching difference in the environment. They have jobs, families, homes, lives and pets.
But what if doing better was a simple as a light-bulb change, a reusable canvas grocery bag, recycling that soda can or a cold-water wash?
These eco-chicks just hope to have a little fun, learn a little more, share a lot of information and maybe make the planet a happier, greener, cleaner place.
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