Earth and Body Friendly

Thank you to everyone who signed up to the Earth and Body Friendly newsletter for a chance to win the new Envirosax bag.
Congratulations to the winner, R.D!
I’ve sent an email to let the winner know and will be posting the prize out shortly.

The draw to win an Envirosax reusbable shopping bag is happening tonight, so if you haven’t subscribed to the newsletter yet, make sure you do it now! Remember that you can double your chance of winning if you tell someone else about it and then let me know. See more details at the original post [...]

Excess packaging is something that bothers me. (Especially so after readingGarbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, by Elizabeth Royte.) Some products have more packaging than product. Not all products are so encumbered with packaging, yet some we might have to buy a lot of in a lifetime and there doesn’t seem to be [...]

Okay, so I suppose it’s not as dramatic as the title suggests, but I was just trying to catch your attention.
Using real butter is just one more way to limit and reduce your use of plastic. Using real butter, and I mean real butter in block form, means that you’re buying something with [...]

I received this gorgeous reusable shopping bag from Envirosax to do a review. It’s one of the new Candy bags in the geometric series. You can read the review here.
As much as I adore it, I already have quite a few of my own Envirosax bags, so I’ve decided to share the love by [...]

Increasingly, there are more and more options out there for reusable shopping bags. I’ve personally tried four different types, but in my search for the perfect bag, Envirosax makes it to the top of my list.
I already own at least a dozen Envirosax bags, including one for kids (or perhaps the young-at-heart) which I bought [...]

Another way of limiting and reducing your use of plastic is to use your bread bags again for more bread. When the loaf is finished, simply turn the bag inside out to get rid of the crumbs and put it inside your resuable shopping bags so that you won’t forget it when you return to [...]

I’ve added a couple of buttons/links to the top of the right column for Twitter and Facebook. You can now follow me on Twitter and join the Facebook group.
Thanks to the lovely Sheri for creating the Facebook group!

From all reports lately, it would seem that plastic is just about one of the most evil things ever invented, but perhaps it’s not the invention of plastic which is bad, but the way that we, as consumers, encourage the excessive production of it. Plastics certainly have a place in our lives and they perform [...]

The environmentalist inside me feels a small surge of joy when I see that there are so many options available for reusable shopping bags. One of my personal favourites is Envirosax. But what about bags actually made from recycled products? Lemon Ink makes such a bag, made almost completely from recycled materials.

I was fortunate enough [...]