Sony is selling some very stylish and colorful laptops that have eco friendly features. The Vaio FZ series are slim in design and come in four designs. There is a pink laptop and a leapard print laptop that will surely turn heads.

Eco friendly features include
-Slim design for minimum use of natural resources
-Easy to recycle materials
-Packaging for recyclable materials
-Laptop and battery are eligible for future recycling through sony.
-1% of sales go to Environmental charities through the program “1% for the planet.

Its a good start and these initiatives are something every computer maker should be doing. It seems like the average laptop owner goes through a laptop every 3 years. Most of these end up in the basement storage and then the landfill.

Prices start at $1400 for the
- Spotted Life
- Clay Earth
- Caribbean
- Bloom

Via Engadget

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Nordstrom has embraced the organic style. While its just the beginning, its great when you see a major retailer go eco friendly. They have a variety of apparel made with organic cotton including

-womens dresses
-cute womens t-shirts
-womens long sleeve shirts

the men finally have some selections with many
-dress and casual long sleeve cotton shirts
-organic cotton hooded cardigan
- organic cotton pajamas
- organic cotton sweaters

Organic cotton is said to be softer, and more comfortable to wear than regular cotton and there are many environmental benefits. Did you know that globally 25% of all insecticides and 10% of all pesticides are for the growing of cotton for clothes. Where do you think they go?? Back to our earth! And a lot of people are needlessly affected by it including workers and local peoples…

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Super Green Boards is a company that makes eco friendly skateboards made out of bamboo. You’ll find a lot of fun facts on their website like it only takes 5 years for a bamboo stalk to grow to a mature stage, while it takes a maple tree about 100 years. Furthermore, bamboo is 17% harder than maple, making it great for skateboards since they go through a lot of punishment on the pavements.

The Green Boards are also constructed with low volatile organic compounds, and the company is research soy polymers and are looking for alternatives for fiberglass with bamboo too. Also keep in mind that bamboo can be sustainably harvested and can grow fast like a weed…

Via ecofriend. Check GreenBoards.com

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An MP4 player. Its like an MP3 player only with advanced features. This MP4 player has 2 solar panels built in. The solar panels either charge the Li-on batteries inside or they can even be used to charge other devices through USB ports. It can charge devices that are 4.5V, 5V, 6.3V or 9V.

The screen is 3.5 inch color and even includes a built in flash light. It also has a built in MIC, and can also read txt files out loud in either Chinese or English. Supposedly it can read other romance languages, but the pronunciation might not be great…

Only $144 for this solar powered MP4 player through ChinaVasion

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Every little bit helps. In the future all trash will biodegrade, but for now we need more green pioneers… Gift cards are popular nowadays but they always end up in the landfill useless. Why not invent them as biodegradable.

Theses biodegradable plastics are made out of plant materials and don’t contain toxins like regular plastics. Anyways these plastic gift cards are made of a bioplastic called Mirel made of core. They are said to decompose after only 40 days. See the before and after pictures here.

Lets hope these bioplastics gain in popularity. It does cost 3x more to produce bioplastics but you can’t put a price on being eco friendly. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says only 6% of plastics are recycled in the U.S. With bioplastics we can take advantage of the lazy U.S. consumers unwillingness to recycles as these plastics biodegrade in the landfill.

Via Sustainableisgood.com

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Proving you can make beautiful jewelry out of trash is Gueto Studio, a jewelry design studio out of Brazil. They have gotten together with Brazil’s biggest petrol company, Petrobas to design products from recovered petroleum byproducts.

This jewelry line is made of rubber coming from the auto industry. Materials were selected that were not toxic to people who would be working with them manually.

Via Treehugger

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A supermarket chain of stores in South West England, M&S, plans to add a ‘bag tax’ on plastic bags. The aim is to do it in the whole country of England. The program has been tested in Northern Ireland and it showed a 66 percent reduction in the use of plastic bags.

It would be great if a store would do this in the United States. Surprised Whole Foods has not done such a thing like this yet. It seems the consumer will use less plastic bags only when their is a financial incentive. There is a huge plastic bag lobby in the United States that wants use to be addicted to these environmentally unfriendly trash.

The supermarket chain M&S plans to give out free re-usable bags to consumers for 3 weeks prior to the plastic bag tax.

You can do your part and get some reusable bags. Its the right thing to do even if you are the only one!

Flora Series Pouch - Envirosax® Bags (FL.01)

Via UK Hippyshopper

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There are only a few places you can get thermals made out of organic cotton and one of them is Rawganique. These are made out of 100% organic cotton. They can be worn as pajamas or as a layer underneath. Thermals also can save on house heating costs if you turn that thermostat down.

This thermal set costs $135 or get the thermals as separates $69…

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Eco friendly Google merchandise available at the Google Store. You can find a variety of things from a Ladies Bamboo shirt, to a an organic cotton baby hat, or an eco friendly duffel bag.

This ladies cotton t-shirt is made out of 70% bamboo. Bamboo wicks away moisture from your skin and feels soft like a blend of cashmere and silk. The Google logo is on the sleeve…

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The set of the hit show Grey’s Anatomy has banned plastic bottles. Something every production should be doing. It’s sets a good example and its something very simple we all can do to go green. Each cast member was issued a thermos. You would think they could buy one on their own, but they are so busy just like real hospital workers (yea right

The thermos says ‘Grey’s Anatomy Season 4′. I bet they can sell these too and make more money off the hit show too…

Via Ecorazzi

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