Dear book worms, are you having trouble reconciling your love of the written word and your good environmental conscience? Still, the first answer you’d give to the question “what would you take with you on a desert island?” is “a book”? You might have already been driven to switch to recycled paper books and/or are part of a local book club. You might also be the proud owner of an e-book. Giving up the familiar book created from dead trees for a device similar to a PDA with no keyboard sounds quite tempting. The two most popular are the Amazon Kindle 2 and the Sony Reader. Click here to read more

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Do you know Nimli? Since 2003, this hip New York online retailer has been providing you with organic, natural and sustainable lifestyle products. Its founder Rajat Arora knows what he’s talking about. Vegetarian and advocate of an organic way of life, he’s been choosing the best green products and services so you can easily adopt a sustainable lifestyle. Eco-conscious fashionistas behold! On April 17th, Nimli opened an eco friendly pop-up store for Earth Month at 2 Great Jones Street in Manhattan. Don’t miss the sales of your favorite organic products! If you want to shop organic, you must run to this NOHO innovative eco friendly store!

BONUS: There are going to be surprise giveaways at Nimli’s pop-up store. Beware this is a spoiler! For any purchase made at their eco friendly store, Nimli is giving away free exclusive Greenzer bracelets! Show the world you shop green by proudly wearing organic products, including our eco-friendly bracelet. Besides, until May 17th Nimli will also offer exclusive promotions and special events will tale place at this eco-friendly store. For example, each weekend of the month will include a unique sweeping eco sample sale!

Indeed, Nimli has a wide range of green products: from clothing, jewelry & accessories, to home décor, organic beauty products, and more to shop green! Find environmentally friendly brands such as The Bubble Roome, BYOB, Cheeky Monday Jewelry, Beau Soleil and many others. All these sustainable products are made by designers at the forefront of green design. Whether you already buy organic or have never tried to shop green, Nimli’s pop-up store is for you! Come to this eco-friendly place of mutual exchanges were you might drop by out of necessity rather than personal virtue.

NIMLI POP-UP STORE
2 Great Jones Street
(Between Broadway & Lafayette)
New York, NY 10012
t. 888.847.9997 – store@nimli.com

Store Hours: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Open Every Day
Ends May 17th

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Meet Barbara Walmsley, a sweet English grandmother famous on the Internet for… going green! If you’re worried about climate change or confused about how your grocery shopping impacts the environment, this “Green Granny” can help. Indeed, Britain’s “Green Granny” has lots of green tricks up her sleeve. Each week, she stars in a new green video. Relying on the experience she acquired during the Second World War, she knows how you can save money and live a better, greener life.

The green videos of our favorite “Green Granny” are hosted by Oxfam International, a confederation of thirteen organizations working to find lasting solutions to end poverty and injustice. Barbara Warmsley is the living proof that the small changes you can make in your everyday life have a real environmental impact. These are a few simple things this eco-friendly grandmother advises you to do:

• Buy one more fair trade product - By buying fair trade products, you’re guaranteeing producers a good price and ethical working conditions. Producers must meet minimum social, economic and environmental requirements to be certified.

• Get involved by buying green products – Eco-friendly products make a difference. The small changes you make at the cash register can have a real impact on climate change while saving you money.

• Buy one less meat or diary product – Cows generate more harmful emissions than the transport on the entire planet! These gassy animals emit large amounts of methane, i.e. 25 times stronger than carbon dioxide. We’re not asking you to go vegan. If you switch once a week to veggie lasagna instead of beef ones for example, you’ll be doing the earth a favor.

• Buy one more thing from a developing country – Did you know that buying local does not necessarily mean buying the product with the lowest environmental impact? Emissions from transporting food equal to only around 12 percent of the total. Besides, developing countries are being hit hardest by climate change which costs lives, homes and livelihoods. Keep in mind that millions of poor farmers in Africa depend on the international market to make a living. Don’t forget to check the label next time you shop for rice or beans!

• Throw one less thing away – Think before you buy so as to not throw away good food. “Green Granny” knows what to do with leftovers. Plan your meals ahead and ask yourself “I am really going to eat that?” Try Green Granny’s recipes or check out the website Love Food Hate Waste. Save money by wasting less food. Also remember you help the environment when you recycle!

With these easy green tips, let’s work together towards a greener and fairer world for everyone. In the following video, she explains how buying more fair trade and wasting less can help working towards sustainable development. So listen carefully to Green Granny, she knows what’s cooking!

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Tomorrow, Friday April 3, is National Walk to Work Day. The event is endorsed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services because Americans can turn their commute into a healthy opportunity to exercise, but the eco-friendly advantages shouldn’t be forgotten either. Think of all the pollution and fuel that could be saved if everyone across the country participated. So get ready to hoof it in style with some eco products made for walking.

Start with a cute pair of Satire ecoSNEAKS from Simple Shoes. After all, just because you’re doing your part for the planet, it doesn’t mean you have to look like you just stepped out of an 80s movie wearing clunky white Reeboks with your skirt suit! Simple Shoes made this sustainable pair out of black and white checkered silk, a natural protein fiber created by silk worms. But the green details don’t stop there: these shoes have Certified Organic cotton linings, laces made from recycled plastic bottles and 100% post consumer paper pulp foot forms. Click here to read more

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What is more important: looks or sustainable development? We are all worried about our looks, but it’s hard not be concerned by environmental issues these days. When going shopping for clothes, why should you have to choose between your green conscience and fashion? If you want to raise eco-awareness don’t go throwing yourself at a tree. Greenzer found a solution for you to reconcile guiltless shopping and eco-consumption. Ripple Junction – “the arbiter, creator, and supplier of cool” – recently launched their Tee Hugger line. A ton of humorous t-shirts ($25) with an ‘eco-edge’ to choose from! Eco-products are in, what are you waiting for? After all, how can you go wrong with a nice pair of jeans and a cute organic t-shirt?

These cool tees are the ideal green product for fashionistas gone green. Made from 100% organic, chemical-free cotton, these fun Tee Hugger tees also bear eco-friendly humorous messages. The “top sellers” read “Solar power turns me on,” “Run, forest! Run!” or “Green is the new black.” We like these hip eco-products with style and wit. What more can you ask for? Tee Hugger has Click here to read more

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