The Budget Ecoist links you to the best eco buzz from around the web:
Top Ten Recycled Sandals – Eco Friendly Footwear for the Summer via Great Green Goods: It’s getting to be sandal weather…time to add a cute shade of purple to your toe nails and prepare to show off those tootsies…eco style. This top ten list features shoes made of recycled jeans, tire, bicycle inner tubes, post consumer paper pulp (the orange juice of the eco world???), sustainable wood and more.
Virgin Coconut Oil – Moisturizing Beauty Panacea via Eco-Chick.com: To go along with our post this week on great DIY beauty products, this post from Eco-chick shows us how we can use virgin coconut oil for a variety of beauty-related purposes. Virgin coconut oil is loaded with antioxidants and protects against free radical damage – but the best part? It’s inexpensive.
Why I Switched to Cloth Napkins via Low Impact Home: For Earth Day, Low Impact Home posted about easy changes that could be made around the home (a lot of these changes are cash-savers as well). Although we use only recycled paper towels, the idea of switching the cloth napkins has really appealed to us, and this post may have just sealed the deal! Tip: get your cloth napkins at second-hand stores. Let’s face it…they’ll be picking up lots of spills so there’s no need to get fancy.
Native & Inavsion Ornamental Grasses via Earth Friendly Gardening: Because it’s spring, we’ve been gardening all weekend long. We’ve noticed the “going native” trend when it comes to gardens, and we love the idea. Water-intensive grass lawns are so yesterday. Not only do native grasses save on water consumption, but they also provide home gardens with nesting sites, food, and cover for birds and other animals. And they’re pretty. It’s like having your own little meadow.
Capping Emissions Would Cost 1% of GDP via EcoGeek.org: And because it is Earth week, we decided to end with an important post…while the government keeps telling us that capping emissions would effectively ruin our economy, those of us who have calculated the cost of a war compared to say, capping emissions, are a little suspicious. Enter the Environmental Defense Fund. They recently funded an analysis that suggests that the truth may be quite the opposite. Surprised? Reducing global carbon emissions will cost just 1 percent of our GDP in 2030, slowing our economic growth by only two to seven months. Read this and be enlighted.
