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IsaBooties

09-Aug-10

IsaBooties

www.isabooties.com

Have you been searching for truly innovative pre-walker shoes for your baby? Have you been dissatisfied with what you have seen? That is exactly what happened when longtime friends Libby and Laura started looking for shoes for their babies. They only found options that they didn’t like. And, then, they started asking questions.

Why are none of the available soft-soled baby shoes animal-free? When using the leather options on the market, why does the leather crack after several washings? Why do the suede soles become slick with wear? Why does the leather become scuffed when my baby crawls? Why do all leather soft-soled shoes, regardless of the brand, look the same? Why are none of the available options made in the USA?

Soon, Libby and Laura were conducting their own research.

We started researching fabric, design, and style options. Our list of requirements grew. The shoes had to be healthy for our babies and healthy for the Earth. They had to be soft and comfy on our little ones’ feet. They had to be easy for us to put on, but hard for our kids to pull off. We wanted them machine-washable and machine dryable. They had to be breathable, durable, skid-proof, and fade-resistant. Oh, and last but certainly not least … they had to be hip and stylish! We found the perfect, 100% animal-free fabrics and started making shoes for our own kids. We mixed bright, funky colors with unique ribbon accents. Soon, our friends wanted them. Then, their friends asked for them, and so on. Before we knew it, IsaBooties was born!

All IsaBooties shoes are free of formaldehyde and are made in the US with fair labor.  The fabrics used far exceed the Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Safety.

And, IsaBooties is a socially responsible company. It has launched Project Happy Feet, “a program that provides soft-soled baby shoes to babies and toddlers of families in need.”

As mothers ourselves, we know how important having proper footwear is to both the health and safety of our kids. Through Project Happy Feet, we want to make sure that babies and toddlers who otherwise may not have shoes will have the right shoes for their developing feet.

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Peeled Snacks: Delicious and Healthful Snacks

13-Jul-10

Peeled Snacks

www.peeledsnacks.com

Are you always looking for new, delicious, healthful snacks? Do you want to avoid processed potato chips, candy filled with corn syrup, and energy bars containing 50 or more ingredients? You may wish to try the wide variety of options offered by Peeled Snacks.

Peeled Snacks are made with ingredients that you recognize. Large, easy-to-eat pieces of fruits and nuts provide a natural source of vitamins, minerals and fiber – with NO added sugar or fat. The nuts are dry roasted and lightly salted. And for the chocolate lovers, we use the finest rich dark chocolate with 61% cacao in our Shock-olate variety.

We want to make snacking easy and enjoyable whether you’re at home or on the go. We know that staying fit and maintaining a healthy diet can often be a challenge when you need a snack in a hurry… At Peeled Snacks, we use the highest quality fruit without any added sugar to help you toward achieving the five-a-day servings of fruit you need….

Peeled Snacks is also socially responsible. The company “strives to use the most environmentally sustainable business practices.”

We source organic ingredients whenever possible. When organic ingredients aren’t readily available, we buy from local farmers and growers. For our product display cases, we use recycled paper. Plus, within our daily business operations, we are committed to recycling and minimizing the use of paper.

Peeled Snacks believes that it is important to “nourish the community around us through active involvement.”

We’re committed to working with organizations that share a common desire to help people live healthier lifestyles.

For example, during the 2009 holiday season, Peeled Snacks “donated a portion of proceeds from sales of our Holiday Gift Boxes to The American Diabetes Association.” In the spring of 2010, Peeled Snacks raised money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, “an incredible organization which raises awareness about our country’s need for world-class treatment and recovery system for people with mental illness.” Partnering with the American Farmland Trust enabled Peeled Snacks “to help farmers and ranchers protect their land, produce a healthier environment and build successful communities.”

To commemorate this partnership, we have created a distinctive special edition pack called The American Farms Sampler, featuring our delicious Cherries and Apples – sourced in North America. Plus, we’re donating 10% of sales on this sampler to the American Farmland Trust.

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Baking for Good

15-Jun-10

Baking for Good

www.bakingforgood.com

Baking for Good is simply the perfect company to be featured on this Web site. Why? The business was designed and created to help support charitable causes.

Baking for Good is an online bakery with a social mission: each purchase of its delicious brownies and cookies includes a 15 percent donation to a nonprofit or community cause the customer chooses. Baking for Good is partnered with more than 100 nonprofit organizations and community causes, such as school groups and marathon teams. Customers also have the option to suggest new causes to be added to the site.

Baking for Good was founded Emily Dubner. She also serves as the CEO.

Growing up in Chelmsford, MA, Emily developed a passion for baking by helping her mother and grandmother in the kitchen. Sugar cookies were young Emily’s favorite baked treat, and she fondly recalls baking batches of creatively decorated flower sugar cookies for her 2nd grade classmates. As a teen, Emily began getting creative, developing and re-creating recipes, and she frequently organized bake sales to raise money for the school orchestra, cross-country team and parent teacher organization. Emily’s love for baking continued through college where she would whip out new treats to the pleasure of her dorm mates.

After graduating from Harvard in 2006, where she had a concentration in social studies, Emily became a management consultant for Katzenbach Partners in New York. There she was exposed to the world of business innovation. Then, in late 2008, Emily’s mother sent her baked goods. That gift “sparked Emily’s idea of Baking for Good.”

Incorporating her love for baking, experience with fundraising as a child and the desire to start a business of her own, it was in January 2009 in her cozy Manhattan kitchen that Emily honed her baking skills and began plans for a company that is not only dedicated to providing premium gourmet treats but is also committed to helping great causes raise money.

Baking for Good uses the finest all-natural, organic, local and seasonal ingredients to make its delectable treats. Baking for Good also offers healthy granola and nut snacks as well as dairy free and gluten-free treats. Customized gift boxes make great gifts for friends, family, colleagues, and clients. Hand iced sugar cookies can be personalized for birthdays, anniversaries, new baby arrivals, weddings and more. Every purchase of cookies, brownies and snacks is baked fresh to order, wrapped in eco-friendly packaging, and promptly delivered to the recipient’s door anywhere in the U.S.

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WoodSprite Organic Baby

26-May-10

WoodSprite Organic Body

www.WoodSpriteOrganicBody.com

We are living in such difficult times. And, they are not only economically challenging. They are truly emotionally exhausting. As a result, each of us must find our own way to reduce our levels of stress – to find some true balance in life. Consider buying an unbelievably aromatic organic soap or body product at the Web site of WoodSprite Organic Body.

We use only the finest whole or organic herbs and herbal extracts, distilled pure essential oils and cold-pressed, exotic organic fruit and nut oils and butters in our products. We choose to let our ingredients lists speak for themselves. We like to rely on our happy customers to spread the word about us, and prefer to invest in the quality of our ingredients rather than in wasteful packaging or marketing gimmicks.

We pay special attention to the details; every one of our organic soaps, spa & beauty items or soy aromatherapy candles are lovingly made ‘from scratch’ and entirely by hand in small batches, enabling us to maintain our high standard of purity. Real people make our products, not machines. And you can tell. When it comes to handmade organic spa products, there is a difference, and we strive to set the standard by which all others are compared. We excel in quality, performance, service, and style.

But perhaps what truly sets WoodSprite apart is our unwavering commitment to ecological sustainability. It is at the root of all our efforts and the heart of our business…. We use only botanical and certified organic ingredients; never chemicals or other harsh fillers. We utilize recycled materials for our simple packaging. We use and reuse whenever possible, minimizing our impact on landfills and the waste stream.

WoodSprite is very socially responsible.

We also tithe a percentage of our company’s pre-profit income to grassroots organizations working to promote sustainable living, conservation, preservation and protection of wild or endangered creatures and places. We want the difference we make to be a positive one

So each time you enjoy one of our organic soaps, or soak up some of our organic whipped shea butter, or take in the uplifting scent of our soy aromatherapy candles, you can rest assured that it is made of the purest possible ingredients, with a great deal of love and mindful attention. Our products may smell wonderful, and they may feel even better, but most important of all, they’re good for you and the planet we share.

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Skip Hop

03-May-10

Skip Hop

www.skiphop.com

Now that we have grandchildren, I spend a good deal of time looking at sites that sell children’s items. One newly found site is a New York City company known as Skip Hop. It is, “devoted to designing groundbreaking products for a new generation of parents.”

At Skip Hop, we truly understand today’s moms and dads because that’s who we are too. We’re in tune with the cool person you were before parenthood, and know that you’re even cooler now that you’re a new mom or dad. Yes, you spend tons of time online, but now it’s on your favorite parenting Web site. You still blog, but now you blog your baby photos. You love your iPod even more with lullabies in it. And baby’s first steps are up on YouTube for everyone to see. So really, nothing’s changed, yet it’s also a whole new world.

At Skip Hop, we get it. So we strive to create products that are smarter, more innovative, and safer. Products that appeal not only to your heart but to your modern sense of design. Iconic objects that beautify the living space, simplify parenting and make day-to-day living easier as a new mom or dad. That’s the ultimate goal in everything we do. To make parenting better.

In 2003, Skip Hop designed the world’s first diaper bag that converts into a stroller bag. Ever since, we’ve been creating new parenting products that are original and transformational. Our team continues to bring design to life, introducing exciting, innovative essentials for new moms and dads all over the world.

Skip Hop has designed items for the home, nursery, bath, and grooming. They have created truly innovative toys and zoo packs. There is even an Central Park outdoor blanket with cooler bag. Skip Hop seems to have an endless number of inspired ideas. 

Moreover, Skip Hop is philanthropic.

We recognize that we are part of a larger world and its important to all of us at Skip Hop that we help make it a better place. A portion of all Skip Hop profits go to charities benefiting parents and children. In particular, we contribute to three organizations that we’re honored to be able to help support. Whenever you purchase Skip Hop products, you are also helping to support the work of these great organizations.

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

The foundation has spent more than two decades funding pediatric research and raising awareness about children’s fight against HIV/AIDS. Thanks to this research and awareness, as well as the advent of combination antiretroviral therapy, many children born infected with HIV/AIDS now have the opportunity to grow up healthy.

Baby Buggy

Baby Buggy is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing New York City’s families in need with essential equipment, clothing, and products for their infants and young children.

Ovarian Cancer Research Fund

The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund exists to fund research to find a method of early detection and ultimately a cure for ovarian cancer. In support of this mission, they help patients and their loved ones understand the disease and its treatment, and provide outreach programs to raise public awareness.

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Clear Conscience

19-Apr-10

Clear Conscience

www.clearconscience.com

For decades, I have worn glasses for reading. And, as I have grown older, reading the fine print without them has become increasingly more difficult.

However, since I do not need glasses for driving, I have never worn contacts. Still, I find myself very impressed with Clear Conscience, which sells contact lens solution and contact lens cases.

Clear Conscience was established in 1998 to provide quality, safe products for contact lenses that are cruelty-free. Company policy ensures that all suppliers are also committed to product safety testing without the use of animals. Ten percent of all proceeds [are] donated to non-profit animal welfare and environmental organizations.

The contact lens solution, which is designed for soft (hydrophilic) contact lenses, is sold in  12 ounce and 3 ounce (travel) recyclable spill-proof plastic bottles. FDA approved, the lens solution is cruelty-free, thimerosal-free, and chlorhexidine-free.

Clear Conscience Multi-Purpose Solution is a sterile solution for daily cleaning, rinsing, disinfecting and storing soft (hydrophilic) contact lenses.

Then, there are the contact lenses cases.

Help the conservation of endangered species worldwide by purchasing Clear Conscience contact lens cases! For every contact lens case sold, a contribution is made to the Born Free USA, in addition to the Clear Conscience policy of donating ten percent of all proceeds to various animal-welfare organizations.

The cases contain a small mirror “to assist in insertion and removal of lenses.” They also have a “special screw-top lens case that fits inside the outer case.” When ordering, buyers select from over 12 different endangered species designs – leopard, tiger, cheetah, panda, dolphin, orca, wolf, sea otter, elephant, lion, polar bear, and rhino.

Cases are made from premium plastics perfectly suited for the use with Clear Conscience Multi-Purpose contact lens solution and various types of contact lenses, and are FDA approved.

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Larry’s Beans

02-Apr-10

Larry’s Beans

larrysbeans.com

Like millions and millions of other people, I like to begin the day with a cup of coffee. Generally, I drink the Newman’s Own organic coffee. It has a bold, strong, taste, and as with all of the Newman’s Own products, the profits are all donated to a host of great charities.

Recently, however, I found Larry’s Beans, another source of a wide variety of great coffees.

We’re out to prove we can sell awesome-tasting beans in a way to make the world a better place. Here’s how we do it.

We build fair trade relationships with family farm cooperatives.

We buy organic, shade grown coffees whenever possible and support our farming partners to practice sustainable farming methods.

We cultivate relationships that benefit people, animals, and the environment.

When Larry founded Larry’s Beans, his goal was, “to find the best coffees in the world and roast them with precision and artistry.” Then, the company became a founding member of Cooperative Coffees, “the first and still the only group of independent coffee roasters that buys green beans directly from Fair Trade co-ops.”

Once our eyes were opened to Fair Trade, we saw that it was more than an equitable way to buy fantastic coffee from farmers who put their hearts and souls into growing it – it was an alternative economic model. A way to connect people from all corners of the world.

We run two delivery vehicles on waste vegetable oil. We’ve just ‘green-o-vated our warehouse to include natural daylighting, low flush toilets, reclaimed timbers and edible landscaping. We’ve developed state-of-the-art-bio-bags for our coffee that biograde in your home compost, or even in landfill.

Larry’s beans is very actively involved in the Raleigh, North Carolina community. Among the local causes the business contributes to are the following:  Coffee Kids, March of Dimes, Best Friend Pet Adoption, Habitat for Humanity – Wake County, Raleigh Rescue Mission, and Operation Catnip!

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