Tree-free Wedding Invitations

Coming from a great site: Invitesite.com , who's invitation kits are starting to make news, features invitations like the photo below made out of milkweek recycled cardstock. It comes with a matching envelope and is 100% post-consumer recycled material. The company has a wide selection of recycled cards and envelopes. Invitesite lets you print the cards yourself or they can print them then send it to you to fold and finish as a kit. Sounds like a neat idea for people who want to get away from the normal looking paper invites!

Blackle: Google's Green (or Black) Alternative

I just happened to stumble across this website. Deemed the 'green' alternative to regular Google searches, Blackle is basically the Google search page with a black background.

ecoIcon writes:

"[A]n all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts...Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let's assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background [on a CRT monitor!] will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year."

According to their website, if people used this black background instead of the normal white Google page, then we could save 750 Megawatt-hours a year. That is basically saying we could save (as a society) about $75 000 per year in energy by just using a black background.

Blackle uses a custom Google search, so you're basically searching Google, just from a different screen. The website also gives some pointers on how to be more eco friendly.

Finally! A meat company who doesn't use styrofoam!

I've been waiting for a company to get on this! Every year millions of of styrofoam meat trays are left in our garbage dumps with no chance of decomposing. There is now a company who is thinking of our future and getting into the eco way of packaging! Murry's Chicken, based in New York, is now supplying eco-friendly packaging for their chicken products. Set to be released on April 22 for Earth Day, this packaging developed by Reiser Equipment and is freezer safe and leak resistant. "As a company that takes its social responsibility seriously, the foam tray was always a thorn in our side and we have long been exploring options," said Steve Gold, Vice President of Marketing for Murray's Chicken. "We're excited to now offer a smart and environmentally-responsible alternative."

The packaging also includes a 'Farm Verification' label which allows the buyer to use an online tracking tool to find out the actual farm that the poultry came from! I'm pretty impressed with this company. Hopefully this type of packaging and technology can come up to Canada soon.

Earth Friendly Ivory Wedding Rings

I didn't know that walrus ivory was eco-friendly, but according to thecarrotbox.com, it is! Made by designer Monique Pean, the rings are made out of walrus ivory crafted by Native Alaskans, 100% recycled gold and conflict-free diamonds. She is also giving 10% of each sale to thte Alaskan Native Arts Foundation. See her entire collection here: moniquepean.com

360 : Eco Friendly Vodka

Want to help the environment??? Buy some Vodka!!!




McCormick Distilling (American), just launched their brand new product: 360 Vodka. The company's new division, Earth Friendly Distilling Co., hopes to establish new sustainable product development and packaging standards in the alcohol industry.

Claiming the title ‘World’s first eco-friendly premium spirit’, 360 Vodka is shipped in a bottle made from 85% recycled glass. The whole product incorporates other sustainability “features” like the 360 logo blown directly into the glass, New Leaf 100% PCW paper label, and also using water-based inks vs. petroleum-based inks for label/packaging printing. In addition, the bottle comes with a postage paid envelope hanging around the neck that lets customers mail back the recyclable flip-top closure for re-use, in turn helping lessen landfill waste.

All impurities are removed by distilling the vodka four times using the column distillation process and later it is filtered five times though granulated charcoaled coconut shell filtration system. The state-of-the-art distillery meets or exceeds all EPA air and water quality standards for distilleries. The production process reduced its volatile organic compounds output by 70% and sulfur dioxide emissions by 99% and the company states that it uses 250% less fossil fuel energy during production process. [source: inhabitat.com

Moving the Earth Friendly Way

Earth Friendly Moving provides a great new concept for people who want to move but don't want to find cardboard boxes that they'll just scrap later. the RECOPACK [REcycled ECOlogical PACKing solution] is an earth friendly, reusable, DIY pack and move solution that can save you time and also help the earth. The RecoPacks are stackable moving containers that are made out of 'hard-to-recycle' plastic bottles, like detergent, cleaning products, bleach, etc.



A skid of them (packed on a skid made of recycled materials) are delivered to your house(in a truck that runs off of veggie oil and bio fuel), you just pack them, ship them to the new destination, unpack then reload on the skid and its taken away to be used again. They cost about $0.15 per day per container and come in 5 different sizes. There is also the option to buy the containers, if you plan to use them for other things in the future and don't want to rent.

They also supply a packing padding called RecoCube, which is made from recycled paper sludge and it totally biodegradable (unlike its Styrofoam predecessors).


Right now they're only located in California, but the company plans to be across America in the next few years.

See more of their story and products on their website: earthfriendlymoving.com

EternalCoil is finally back!

After basically a month of hiatus, partly due to things changing in my life, as well as a small part of just laziness, I'm back blogging again. I hope to keep this updated as much as possible with new products and ideas that are eco-friendly, to keep everyone fully informed of the massive future market that is 'GREEN'.



I'm also starting in a few months to post some products on here that I have created from recycled materials. These I'm deeming as 'Use-able Art', because they're basically products that are art, but are also something you can use in everyday life.



I'm also looking for someone from the London ONtario area who has a passion for green products and would want to contribute (when they can, with no limits or requirements) to this blog, to inform people of new products coming out in the market. Email me if you want more info or just want to chat about something you've seen!