Valentine's Day
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One mom and blogger tried our idea of giving her kids one high quality organic chocolate bar instead of a handful of conventional candy on Valentine's Day and here's what happened: I wanted to share with you some praise I have for the chocolate that I bought the boys for Valentine's Day. I took the advice that Lynn and Corey from Celebrate Green gave me when I interviewed them for MNN, and bought the boys a small amount of really good, Fair Trade chocolate.
I bought them each a small bar of Divine milk chocolate. That was it for the candy. We gave it to them mid-morning Saturday. About a half hour after we gave it to them, my nine year old came up with one of the four small squares from the bar.
"Mom, you've got to try this. This is the best chocolate I've ever had." He gave me a piece. He took another piece to his dad.
A few minutes later, my six year old came up with a piece of his bar for me, and took a piece to my husband, too. He thought it was so good, he had to share it. They each gave away half of the best candy bar they ever had. My boys are awesome.
It was really, really good chocolate. I've had various fair trade and organic chocolates before, but this was by far the best.
I'll be writing more about fair trade in the weeks to come, but for now, if you see this chocolate on a shelf, grab some. The small bar only cost $1.45 - certainly pricier than a Hershey Bar but worth every penny more.
Thanks to Robin Shreeves, the eco-friendly food blogger from Mother Nature Network, who wrote this on her personal blog. Check out her bogs for more great, eco-ideas.
Celebrate Green with romantic Valentine's gifts you haven't thought of including gorgeously green lingerie
- Custom artwork of you or your love (or you and your love) made with recycled junk mail www.SchimmelArt.com
- Organic wine and spa collection or organic and Fair Trade wine and chocolate set, www.EcoExpress.com
- St. Valentine gift box from www.LarrysBeans.com with organic, fairly traded, shade grown coffee, three bards of organic Fair Trade chocolate and a "Coffee is like kissing" brew guide.
Lingerie
- Looks like our friends across the pond (in England that is), are way ahead in developing new fabrics for lingerie. There are a couple of designers who've come out with bras made of Lenpur®, a biodegradable fabric made from white pine tree clippings. Sounds rough on the skin, but its silky texture wins raves. Take a look at www.g98.fr
- Once again, England is tops for tops and bottoms. www.Enamore.co.uk offers the sexiest sustainable lingerie to be seen organic hemp and silk, soya and recycled fabrics-pricey, but luxurious
- Knickers is the word for panties in England and www.GreenKnickers.org has some cuties handmade from hemp and silk that they will mail to the U.S.
- WWW.Eco-Boudoir.com another UK lingerie company with a conscience, sells chic, Earth-friendly under-duds and even gives you the opportunity to offset your carbon emissions when shipping to the US.
- WWW.Patagonia.com offers cute shorts and sporty bras made from materials that can be recycled by returning the worn garment directly to the company
- American Apparel sells sporty and affordable organic cotton undergarments
- For more frisky choices, try www.Buenodesign.ca or www.UrbanFoxEco.com
Make some natural rose petal tea using a heart-shaped tea infuser from www.ThisNext.com, in a heart-shaped cup from www.BitsandPieces.com