Category: Green news

If you’re buying for that green birthday celebrant in your life , consider Fair Trade, locally-made or organic products. Donate to that person’s favorite charity. If you’re crafty, you can even make your own presents or birthday cards. Or look for greeting cards made from recycled materials. Use recycled gift wrapping paper. If you’re not…

If you’re still scrambling to buy holiday gifts, check out the following sites for gifts that keep on giving. And you don’t even have to drive to the mall, find a parking spot and stand in line to check-out. Changing the Present Green with Envy Toms Shoes Global Giving Global Exchange, A GreaterGift World of…

Want to avoid using pesticides in your home? Seventh Generation offers the following tips: For ants, sprinkle boric acid or ground cloves along baseboards, in the back of cabinets, and other “edge” areas. Or spray a solution of two teaspoons of peppermint oil in two cups of water in the same areas. Cockroaches can be…

If this perfume were available sooner, this would be the perfect Christmas gift for the eco-friendly males in your life. Nautica is releasing Nautica Oceans in March 2009, a new water-based fragrance that comes in biodegradable packaging.

Stepping out for the holidays? If you’re in LA, NY, San Francisco or Boston, Ozocar can get you to that holiday party in an environmentally conscious fashion. The hybrid cars feature wireless Internet access, an Apple iBook and Sirius satellite radio stations. For more information, click here.

FSC-certified Christmas trees will soon be available to the residents of Olomouc and Brno. It’s a huge step for the country, hopefully one that other towns and cities will be able to take pretty soon. Christmas trees in the country are generally “grown on special farms or imported from various countries such as Denmark,” according…

We’re particularly fond of water bottles over here at Green Unlimited and we’re always thrilled to find out about how other people make them better and more eco-friendly. The latest water bottle we’ve stumbled upon is the 360 Paper Bottle, a water bottle with a totally unique look and one quality that makes it stand…

Superheroes like Batman are always zipping around in some pretty sexy and hardcore vehicles, but how eco-friendly are they? Matus Prochaczka has come up with a concept car for The Toon Studio of Beverly Hills, and this car will be featured along with their superhero characters. The car is a hybrid, powered both by electricity…

Can your font selection really make a difference in the amount of ink you use? It sure looks like it. After all, thicker, bolder, more solid fonts can use up more ink when you print out documents using these fonts. The team behind Ecofont has come up with a font that’s more eco-friendly. The font…

I adore luggage and would probably buy even more if I had the money, never mind that I already have quite a lot of ’em already. So it’s quite pleasing to hear about eco-friendly luggage lines every now and then. The latest to come out is Samsonite’s Terrea, which consists of products made mostly out…