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Friday, December 4, 2009
The Tampa Bay Green Gift Guide: Fabulous eco-friendly gifts from local Earth loving vendors
Posted by Katie Machol on Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Forget going to the overcrowded malls this year, fighting your way through throngs of other frantic holiday shoppers. Why buy the same overpriced, over commercialized gifts that everyone else will be putting under their trees? Go green this year with your gift giving - not only giving to someone else, but giving back to the Earth.
Check out some of these standout items from these eco-friendly purveyors that will surely make quite an impression on all of the recipients on your list.
Tampa Street Market sells one-of-a-kind furniture and housewares from vintage and repurposed items. Owners Charles and Amy Haynie also design eco furniture from salvaged wood and steel. Their Seminole Heights store features green housewares and gifts, like locally made Papergeist notebooks, Tweeprints stationery, and Second Line frames made from salvaged wood. 4715 N. Florida Ave., Tampa. 813-236-4900 www.tampastreetmarket.com
Zen Glass Studio and Higher Self Gifts, owned by artists Joshua Poll and David Walker, sell hand blown glass, art, paintings, and photography from local artists as well as organic teas and natural gifts from eco-friendly businesses. Zen Glass: 900A Dr. Martin Luther King St. S., St. Petersburg. 727-894-2371, www.zenglass.com; Higher Self Gifts: 6030 4th Street North, St. Petersburg. 727-329-6488, www.higherselfgifts.com
Indigo Bee offers organic, animal-free soaps, salts, lotions, and essential oils. 3205 W. Bay to Bay Blvd. Tampa, FL 33629. 813-374-2273 www.indigobeesoap.com
Healthy Being Wellness Boutique is a full service, natural health and wellness business providing gentle healing therapies, high quality wellness products and natural health education. They also offer natural products for people, pets, and homes - green cleaning products, too! 425 33rd Ave N., St. Petersburg. 727-502-3464 www.healthybeingllc.com
Second Line Frames takes authentic wood siding salvaged from homes destroyed during Hurricane Katrina and turns it into unique picture frames. This local business donates at least 20% to assisting in the rehabilitation of affected neighborhoods in New Orleans. You can find them at Tampa Street Market and their Etsy store: www.etsy.com/profile.php?user_id=5540567
Papergeist notebooks are one-of-a-kind spiral bound notebooks, journals, appointment books hand made from vintage record sleeves and reclaimed office paper. Pick them up at Tampa Street Market or from their website: www.papergeist.com
Green With Envy Organics is a locally based company that offers 100% organic cotton canvas totes with various 'green' sayings and pictures. These bags are a great substitute to those boring reusable grocery bags, plus, they're bigger and a lot sturdier. The company also offers organic recycled totes and will even take custom orders. To find them locally, check them out at Sunken Gardens' gift shop, or at their website: http://greenwithenvyorganics.com/
Be sure to check out the guide to Tampa Bay's Green/Farmers' Markets to visit some of these vendors and to shop from other local vendors.
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