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Greenward's October Favorites
Recycling in Cambridge
We
are commonly asked by customers where they can recycle or properly
dispose of various items that they are ready to part with. The
Cambridge Department of Public Works has a very useful page that covers
just about anything you would want to get rid of.
Living With Ed
This
show has become increasingly popular at our house. Ed Begley, Jr.
plays a reality-show version of himself, the earliest of adopters of
any eco-friendly device on the market, much to the consternation of his
more conventional spouse. Bill Nye appears as the nutty
single-guy neighbor who is always showing up Ed with his better solar
system or tidier organic garden.
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Hello!
Welcome to the October edition of the monthly Greenward
newsletter! October is shaping up to be a crazy busy month for
us--first off, we're getting married at the end of the month, the
planning for which is of course taking up all of our spare time.
Second, and perhaps more relevant to you, dear reader, is that we have
been placing a flurry of orders for new products for our first holiday
season at Greenward.
We are pretty excited about all the new
things coming into the store, and you will be too! We will
feature some of the new things here in the newsletter as they
arrive--see below for what's already here...
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Spotlight on...Et Cetera Media
Et
Cetera Media is a Boston-based company making lots of cleanly designed
and useful items from thick, sustainable wool felt. We have
pouches in four sizes, laptop sleeves, and cases for iPods. They
are working on a line of home goods as well, so be on the lookout for
those!
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Spotlight on...Twist Sponges and Loofah Art
We have a few new products to help you green your cleaning: Loofah-Art scrubbers and Twist Sponges.
Loofah-Art
makes a huge selection of fruit- and vegetable- and animal-shaped
loofah scrubbers for the kitchen. Loofah sponges are made from
the inside of the loofah gourd. They are 100% natural and
biodegradable, gentle enough for scrubbing vegetables and non-stick
cookware, tough enough to clean up after your most tragic culinary
experiments.
Twist "set out to turn the world of cleaning
products on its head - combining design and environmental
responsibility to create functional, beautiful, and responsible
alternatives." We have their full line: the Loofah Sponge, a
biodegradable cellulose sponge with a loofah backing; and the Euro
Sponge and Euro Towel, both super-absorbent sponges. Each Euro
Towel replaces 17 rolls of paper towels! You get three in a pack,
so that's like four trips to Costco avoided right there! Plus, the
packaging can be transformed into a birdhouse just by following the
printed instructions!
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Spotlight on...DB Clay Wallets
The
folks at DB Clay got their start making wallets out of duct tape and
selling them at the Portland (OR) Saturday Market. Thousands of
"ductbills" later, they are now making their striking and unique
Version 3 wallets from a fabric they call "Tope" (sounds like
dope). "Tope is a synthetic fabric
similar (in texture) to a vinyl canvas. However, Tope does not contain
certain hazardous chemicals typically found in most vinyl-based
products. In particular, Tope contains NO PVC,
Tope is made from non-toxic raw materials (it causes no dioxin, heavy
metal or phthalate pollution), Tope decomposes when buried, Tope is
chlorine chemicals free and Tope is fabricated through a pollutant free
process. Additionally, we have engineered a tremendously technical
printing process whereby we print high resolution and full photographic
images using environmentally friendly inks."
Also, these wallets are the best looking thing to put money in since you broke that Fabergé piggy-bank!
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Pinecone+Chickadee
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The
unstoppable juggernaut of cuteness that is the Greenward stationery
selection gets a bunch cuter with the addition of cards and journals
from Pinecone+Chickadee. P+C is the family business of Amy and
Noah, who hand silk-screen their whimsical designs on recycled paper at
their base of operations in Maine.
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| Thanks for reading our newsletter. We'll see you in the shop!
Sincerely,
Scott & Simone Greenward | |
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