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Go With A Green Pillow

A few months ago, I wrote about eco-friendly mattresses, and why you may want to consider one the next time that you’re in the market for a new mattress.

Well, I recently came across green pillows from the same company, Keetsa, that makes the eco-friendly mattresses that I like so much.  I picked up a few of their down-alternative memory foam pillows and I’m loving them.  If I’m being completely honest, I don’t think that buying a green pillow has any real effect on your health.  I bought my pillows from Keetsa mostly because I really love their mattresses and wanted to support the company again with a pillow purchase.  I like what the company stands for and I figured if I was going to purchase new pillows, I might as well make them as green as possible.

They actually have a while line of eco friendly pillows.  We chose the down alternative option because I’m addicted to down.

Wondering what makes their pillows green?

First, they use something that they call EverGreen.  It’s made with real green tea extract and isused mostly for odor control. They use the same product in many of their mattresses. Keetsa also uses a memory foam that they’ve developed that replaces a percentage of the oil that’s used in the production of traditional memory foam with castor bean oil, which is natural and much more eco friendly than other oil typically used.

In addition, their bio-foam has no formaldehyde and no VOCs.  Both formaldehde and VOCs have serious health risks – so that’s actually a pretty big selling point.

Green Pillow

I’m planning to purchase a few more as mine seems to end up in my 5-year old daughter’s bedroom ever single night.  Seriously, I can’t blame her for stealing it – these pillows are seriously comfortable.

For the first 32 years of my life, I only slept with a feather pillow.  It’s sort of embarrasing, but before my recent purchase, I actually had the same feather pillow since I was 10 or something (I still haven’t been able to make myself throw it away). When I bought these pillows I really didn’t expect to like it because I’m such a baby about my pillow – I used to travel for work and my feather pillow had it’s own suitcase…really.  Clearly, for me to say good things about a pillow, it’s got to be one heck of a comfortable pillow! The fact that it’s a green pillow is just icing on the cake!

Make sure to check out the pillows and the Eco Friendly Memory Foam Mattress
the next time you are in the market for a new pillow or mattress – they’re really worth every penny you’ll spend.

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Eco Canteen Stainless Steel Water Bottle Product Review

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* NOTE: We really like the Eco Canteen but have gotten a few comments about inflated shipping charges when ordering from the company. We recommend purchasing the Eco Canteen from Amazon. Click Here to Get the Eco Canteen Stainless Steel Water Bottle

About a month ago, I posted a blog saying that I’d soon be doing a review of the Eco Canteen metal water bottle as they offered to send me a few of their bottles to test. I finally have them…and I have to first say that my long wait in not the fault of Eco Canteen. First of all, I live in Hawaii and everything takes forever and two days to get here. Second, we don’t get home mail delivery in Hawaii (yes, seriously!) and the Mailboxes, Etc. where I pick up my mail is 45 minutes from my house. So, you can guess about how often I make the trek all the way over there just to pick up bills…

Last Friday when I finally stopped in to pick up my mail, the Eco Canteen stainless steel water bottles were waiting for me. As soon as I got home I unpacked the box and was thrilled to find two of the full-size water bottles. The lid has a clip attached so the water bottle can be easily transported. The bottles also come with an insulated tote bag that keeps in the moisture and keeps the water colder, longer.

In the past, I’ve talked about the importance of using stainless steel water bottles. In short, plastic water bottles are bad for your health and their bad for the environment. Plastic contains BPA, which can leach and cause health problems. The effects on the environment are even worse. Most people don’t recycle these plastic bottles and they break down incredibly slowly – it can take up to 1,000 years for plastic to break down. That’s not exactly the legacy that you want to leave. Also concerning is the amount of oil that’s used in the production of plastics. According to the Earth Policy Institute, more than 17 million barrels of oil are used each year in order to create the plastic that water is stored in – and that’s not including the cost to transport the water, often overseas.

Alright, back to the Eco Canteen review. In the past, I’ve used Kleen Kanteen’s water bottles, and for the most part, I’ve been pleased with them. However, I’ll gladly make the change to Eco Canteen, for a few key reasons.

First and most important (to me), Eco Canteen is a non-profit organization. That tells me that they are doing this for the right reasons.

Second, the Eco Canteen bottles are about 1/2 the price of any competitor’s bottles. The full size stainless steel water bottles are $9.95 and the kid’s sized bottles are only $8.95 vs. more than $20.00 for the same bottles sold by many competitors.

Third, after using these bottles for a few days, I’ve found the quality of these bottles to be just as good, or better, than that of other water bottles I’ve used. The insulated sleeve that comes with them is basically a free bonus, since the bottles that I’ve ordered in the past did not come with a holder at all.

If I have any complaint at all about the Eco Canteen stainless steel water bottles, it’s that they only come in traditional stainless steel. Now, that’s perfect for me. However, I have daughters who are seven and five and they are really attached to their decorated bottles. However, as I mentioned before, these bottles are half the price and they’re extremely good quality – so my daughters are just going to have to learn to love the stainless steel look!

If you’re still drinking from plastic water bottles, it’s time to make the switch.

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Eco Friendly Reading – The Kindle

If you love to read but hate the resources used to make a book consider buying a Kindle or other electronic devise for eco friendly reading.

The Kindle offers a lot! It is portable, stores a number of books (1,500 in one model) and convenient.

Though the price of several hundred dollars may seem a bit high at first, over the long run the costs savings on books adds up and the impact to our environment is huge.

One thing I love about this eco friendly devise is how fast it delivers your books! If you see one you like and order it, it delivers your book in under 60 seconds. Amazon has close to 400,000 books that are kindle ready.

If you love to read the Kindle is an excellent eco friendly reading choice.