Top 10 Eco-Friendly Gifts for Christmas, Buy at Ecobold

Top 10 Eco-Friendly Gifts for Christmas

This is a one of a kind, top 10 eco-friendly gifts list for Christmas. I hope you enjoy our cheap shopping guide for a green Christmas! Take action. Buy Green!

In this Green Guide:
10. Tesla Roadster and Model S: The Tesla Roadster is just a fantastic all electric car that's going far and fast! Not only it goes from 0-60 mph in 3.7 seconds it's also a very, very hot sports car. I really fell in love with it as soon as I saw a picture of it. And then I was able to test drive the Tesla Roadster which made me fall in love even more with the car. Here's our test drive and interview at their showroom in Menlo Park: www.ecobold.com/tesla-roadster-test-drive-2.They're also coming up with the four door Sedan, the Model S and it's extremely beautiful! A little history about Tesla, from their website:

Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by a group of intrepid Silicon Valley engineers who set out to prove that electric vehicles could be awesome.
The Tesla Roadster hit the streets in early 2008 as a car with no equal. Two years later, over 1,000 Roadsters drive emissions-free in more than 25 countries.
Tesla's Battery Packs and Powertrains
will help lessen global dependence on petroleum-based transportation and drive down the cost of electric vehicles. By cooperating with other car manufacturers, we hope to put more electric cars on the road.
Every Tesla and EV using Tesla Technology is a step towards making increasingly affordable electric cars available to the consumer.

It's more than electric, it's Tesla. (gotta love their slogan!)

9. Recycled calendar with soy based ink by Asgard Press: this recycled calendar (made out of recycled paper) and printed on soy based ink also serves another purpose: it's a vintage football calendar that you can keep and collect over the years. Every year they have new pictures of classic college football leatherheads, and they have pretty much all colleges!

More info about them, from their website:
Asgard Press has been creating and publishing archival-quality calendars, books and stationery since 1999. Classic college football leatherheads were introduced in 2005 with “Vintage Michigan,” featuring Wolverine game day program covers from the early 1900s-1960s. Today, more than 70 of the top football colleges across the country are featured in this collector’s series of calendars and stationery.
And be sure to check out our new national titles, including Golden Age images from DC Comics, Marvel, MAD Magazine, Pulp Sci-Fi, and unpublished photos of a pre-Hollywood Norma Jeane before she became Marilyn.
While preserving history, Asgard Press also works to protect the environment by using 100% recycled paper and soy-based inks for its entire product line.

8. Recycled candy wrap purse and clutch by Eco Fashions: these recycled material purses are so cool and will definitely catch people's attention. They're exotic, different, and best of all, green!

More info about them, from their website:
Eco Fashions uses recycled candy wrappers, newspapers and magazines to make a collection of uniquely crafted accessories. Our handmade specialty line of Eco handbags are stylish, fun, durable and green.
We are involved in the design of our handbags and work with a rehabilitation center in Mexico City for young adults ages 18-28 similar to a juvenile hall. The young adults are given a choice to do rigorous work with very low pay or make these candy wrapper products and earn 5x more per week. When they get paid for their production they are able to pass this along to their families. As our business has grown it has given employment to others i.e. senior citizens, single mothers and the unemployed. It has been very rewarding to know others benefit in exposing this beautiful art that puts a smile in those who buy it and those who make it.
The stylish eco friendly handbags, with their striking colors, reflect the love of the hands that fold and weave each wrapper together to create their unique shapes and sizes. It takes one artisan a full day to make a small purse and up to five days to make a larger purse.
By making a purchase you help the environment, the lives of those who handcraft the accessories, the young adults at a local rehabilitation center and many others whose hands touch the candy wrappers. This is a fair trade business based in San Francisco, California. When you think Green think Eco Fashions.

7. Local wine: drinking local wine is green, and who would have thought about it? By drinking local wine you're not only helping our environment because your wine has traveled a few miles to get to you (rather than thousands) but you're also helping your local economy! What a great way to help two great causes at the same time. And if you can, drink local organic wine, which also is not only much healthier for you, it's also healthier for our planet and our soil. There are several organic wines popping up left and right and you shouldn't have a problem finding them. The other day I even went to an organic wine tasting in San Francisco! My favorite place to find wines is our from our loved Gary Vaynerchuk from Wine Library.

6. Organic foot lotion by Gilden Tree: our green and eco-friendly guide couldn't be out without something to pamper yourself such as this organic foot lotion by Gilden Tree. They have a whole line of organic footcare for dry skin and cracked heels. Also check out the Gilden Tree robe made out of 100% natural cotton and other Gilden Tree products at their website.

Here are the ingredients for their nourishing foot cream:
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract*, Aqua, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil *, Stearyl Alcohol, Glycerin, Cetyl Alcohol, Sorbitol, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil *, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter)**, Stearic Acid, Isopropyl Palmitate, Citrus Medica Limonum Peel Oil*, Ascorbic Acid, Fragrance, DL-Panthenol, Phenoxyethanol, Sorbic Acid, Symphytum Officinale (Comfrey) Leaf Extract*, Rosmarinus Officinalis Leaf Extract*. *Certified Organic **Wildcrafted

5. Eco-friendly golf balls by Dixon Golf: this is a high performance green golf ball that will keep your performance and playability up to par, especially when compared to non-performing and non-green golf balls.
According to their website, they do not use harsh heavy-metal pollutants like tungsten, cobalt, lead or contain non-renewable synthetic materials and compounds; all balls manufactured by Dixon Golf are "green" to the core. They are 100% recyclable and made from reprocessable materials. Even the packaging is made from 100% recycled material. Lastly, they have a recycling program to recycle golf balls, you can recycle any brand of used golf balls at a participating Dixon Golf retailer and Dixon Golf will give a credit of up to $12 per dozen toward the purchase of Dixon EARTH golf balls. So take a peak at it and next time you give a golf fan a gift, remember of Dixon Golf!

Quick cool fact: it is estimated that over 300 million golf balls are discarded in the United States each year. That is more than enough golf balls to make a solid line of golf balls from LA to London.

4. Organic chocolate by Theo Chocolate: you can never go wrong with organic chocolate. Theo Chocolate is an organic chocolate company that has been growing a lot in the past few months. They make delicious organic chocolate bars and they have all kinds of flavors using organic cacao, and this is on top of the basic organic milk chocolate and organic dark chocolate. One of my favorites is the coconut curry flavor, it melted in my mouth and it was a great combination.
The only thing I haven't seen at Theo Chocolate is a raw organic chocolate, hopefully they'll be adding it to their collection. The good news is that they do have vegan organic dark chocolate for all vegans and vegetarians out there!
As of 2010 they say that they're the only organic, fair trade, beans-to-bar chocolate factory in the US.
Available flavors: mint chocolate, orange, cherry and almond (yummy), hazelnut, bread and chocolate (interesting!), coconut curry, chai, fig fennel & almond, vanilla and coffee. They also have 71% dark chocolate from Madagascar and 91% dark chocolate from Costa Rica.

3. The Food Revolution by John Robbins - How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and the World. This best seller book changed my life, it talks about how meat and livestock is "produced" here in the United States, the benefits of veganism, becoming vegan, why vegetarian is a healthy way of life, in between other things related to our health and being or becoming vegetarian or vegan. I guarantee you it's a page turner and you'll LOVE it! Promise. No doubts. No kidding.
Here's a little more info, from their website:
THIS BOOK CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE: Find out the truth about popular diets, genetically modified foods, mad cow disease, and the health effects of what you eat. In this long-awaited and provocative book, best-selling author John Robbins exposes the dangers behind many of today's foods and reveals the extraordinary benefits of healthy alternatives. The Food Revolution will show you how to extend your life, increase your vibrancy and vitality, and take a stand for a more compassionate and sustainable world."
Other best sellers by John Robbins are: Diet for a New America, Reclaiming Your Health, The Awakened Heart, and Choices For Our Future.

2. Reusable glass bottle by Love Bottle: Love Bottle makes really neat reusable glass bottles with adorable designs. You can also customize a bottle by drawing on it, putting stickers on it, or placing wrist bands around it to help on the grip. Love Bottle is made partially with recycled glass and saves you money and saves our environment from nasty plastic bottles. It's dishwasher safe and you can also easily clean it with a bottle cleaning brush. You can put water, juices or even wine in your reusable bottle. Well I'd put wine on mine, that's for sure! It's one of the best reusable water bottle you'll see! They also have wholesale pricing for larger orders.
It's great for your home, office, your car or even the gym. According to their website you can bring your glass bottle with you on the airplane, just make sure there's no liquid inside. You can also custom design your bottle for special occasions, weddings or for a company event.
There are 14 bottle designs to choose from, on top of their blank bottle.
Available sizes are 500 ml or 1000 ml

1. Recycled bike chain bowl by Resource Revival: this is one of the first green products I fell in love with, Resource Revival makes very cool bike chain bowl that makes an unusual gift idea.
Their bike chain art also includes bike chain picture frame, recycled clocks, bike chain bottle opener, key chain bottle opener, bike part candle holder, recycled bike chain luggage tags, recycled custom key chain, custom recycled magnet and cool recycled business card holder.
All products at Resource Revival are made with recycled bike parts. What a great way to make a difference!
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