Featured Seller: MarthaHaskins

Today's featured seller Alex Whatton owner of MarthaHaskins. She is located in Milford, CT.

Her shop is MarthaHaskins. Her blog is http://MarthaHaskins.blogspot.com.

Items Sold: Fine Art, Photography, and Surface Design

What makes your shop eco-friendly or organic based?:
I use 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper made with hydroelectric power and/or found paper for all of my ACEOs and since my mother started her own art school, I use-up the left over paints that students were going to throw away!

What do you do everyday that is green?:
Turn off the lights whenever I leave a room (or even use a candle), take quick showers or shallow baths, reuse my shopping bags (I NEVER take plastic bags from stores), and I read the news online!

Favorite Book: "Craft, Inc." by Meg Ilasco
Favorite Movie: "Serenity"
Favorite Color: Orange (at the moment)

Favorite item in your shop: Sally Robot...or the carrot tote!

My Favorite Item in your Shop: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11492989

An Etsy Shop that you think should be featured that is not your own:
ponyup - I love the idea of bringing your flatware with you!

Thanks for being Green Alex!

Featured Seller: Momma Earth Herbal Gifts

My next featured shop is Momma Earth Herbal Gifts who is located in Pittsburgh PA.

Their Etsy shop is iansmomma.etsy.com and her other site is mommaearth.com.

Items Sold: Natural Herbal Packs, Eye pillows, Dream pillows

What makes your shop eco-friendly or organic based?:
I use natural ingredinets in my products. All of my herbs and essential oils are organic. I use bamboo fiber fill in my pillows and dream pillows.

What do you do everyday that is green?:
What don't I do? Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!! Recycling is a big one for me and my family. We unplug appliances that aren't in use. I use natrual cleaning products, buy organic food, buy local food when available. We just renovated our kitchen using eco friendly products

Favorite Movie: anything funny
Favorite color: Pink

Favorite item in your shop: New Bamboo filled Pillows

My favorite item in her shop:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11249404
An Etsy Shop that you think should be featured that is not your own: Luxe.etsy.com

Thanks for being Green! Momma!

Featured Seller: Kephri

The next featured seller is Kephri from Dallastown PA. Their Etsy Shop is www.Kephri.etsy.com.

Their myspace other sites are www.myspace.com/Kephri and www.Kephri.com.

Items Sold:
I just started my etsy shop and haven't sold anything, but have my products carried in Holistic Spas, Yoga Studios and local small businesses.

What makes your shop eco-friendly or organic based?
I use Fair Trade, Organic and wildcrafted ingredients sourced from responsible suppliers. I also recycle!

What do you do everyday that is green?
I am vegan, eat only organic foods (gotta loove organic food!) , and prefer locally grown whenever possible. I walk my shipments to the post office rather than driving, and whenever i can I choose to walk or ride a bike instead of driving. I make my own cleansers for both my family and my home. I recycle EVERYTHING, do most of my shopping at secondhand stores and buy in bulk to reduce extra packaging.

Favorite Book: wow! only one? :( "The Essential Rumi"
Favorite Movie: The Painted Veil
Favorite color: They are all so useful :)

Favorite Item in Your Shop:
My "Meditation" Herbal Body Polish with Fair Trade Sugar

My favorite item in their shop: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10248966

An Etsy Shop that you think should be featured that is not your own:
Vegan Honey Bake Shop

Featured Seller: AutumnRoseDesign

I'm going to add more images to my blog. So this is the first feature with pictures!


The next featured seller is Rosemary. She is located in Grafton, NH.

Her Etsy shop is http://autumnrosedesign.etsy.com. She has another site as well,
http://www.autumnrosedesign.com.

Items Sold:
Skirts, dresses, shorts, pants, capris, gauchos, petticoats, handbags, messenger bags, shopping totes

What makes your shop Eco-friendly or organic based?
I sell handmade hippie patchwork clothing and accessories for the whole family made from sustainable eco-friendly fabrics.

What do you do everyday that is green?
I use hemp shopping bags, I compost, I reuse, I use energy saving light bulbs
I buy organic when possible, I recyle.

Favorite Movie: Pretty Woman
Favorite Color: olive

Favorite item in your shop: hemp kid's clothing (hemp is a great natural resource!)

My favorite item in her shop: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9882607

An Etsy Shop that you think should be featured that is not your own:
http://ecojess.etsy.com



Thanks for being green Rosemary!

Buying Local is very Green!

If you want to try and reduce CO2 emissions and cut down on waste, try buying local. This means buying things that are produced withing your state, city, town or local community. Many of our favorite shopping places ship large quantities of products across the country and world with no thought of the impact that the fuel it takes to make these long journeys has on our environment.

Not only are there problems with upholding US product codes producing items in other countries but it takes a huge amount of fuel to get these products to our stores. The cost on the Earth as well as the finacial cost of this use of fuel is stagering.

Buying local can cut those costs and enrich your own community. It also envokes pride in ones own state, city or town. Pride is something our country is lacking right now. We need to spread our pride in our hometowns like wildfire.

Etsy has a great tool thaht I urge all to use. It is the "shop local." http://www.etsy.com/shop_local.php

All you need to do is enter your city and state and it will show you an abundance of sellers in your area! Go ahead and try it! Its fun to see how many creative people live around you!

Design to Save the World

I'm sure I have talked about it before but I have another blog.

www.designtosavetheworld.blogspot.com

I have been trying to turn it into a resource for people to find Eco-friendly, organic and green products. Each day I have posted a different seller in a spotlight to share their work. It is not a length feature just something for people to check out and get an idea about teh seller and what they offer.

It is important to me to share sellers that have similar values as I do about the environment. Please stop by my other blog and fill out the survey if you feel you are an eco-seller. I'm trying to be able to do it everyday and will notify you when I post a feature.

If you are not an etsy seller please fill out the survey and add the information you think I should share about you and your eco products. I welcome all to fill out the survey.

Thanks so much!