Earth911 and Eco Etsy: A Perfect Pair

May 6, 2012 by ecokaren
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We have been recycling long before it was fashionable or mandatory but when we are not sure if an item can be recycled, there is a trustworthy ‘go to’ place called Earth911 where we can always get the answer. Earth911 is also on selected Sprint’s Android app called “Green ID Pack” with Eco Etsy and [...]

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Team Eco Etsy at Dreamers into Doers by Martha Stewart

March 11, 2012 by ecokaren
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I had the pleasure of being asked to give a talk on “How to Green Your Business and Save Money” at Dreamers into Doers Annual Conference sponsored by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) in NYC last week. It would be an understatement to say what an honor to be asked, as there are thousands of [...]

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Team Eco Etsy Partners with Practically Green

March 4, 2012 by ecokaren
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Team Eco Etsy is so excited and proud to announce our partnership with the most amazing online site that helps you green your life. It’s called Practically Green. You might wonder, “You are an eco-friendly team; why do you need help with greening your lives?” Well, in short, to be greener! Being green is an [...]

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Eco Etsy on The Green Divas Radio Show

February 19, 2012 by ecokaren
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Team Eco Etsy is on F.I.R.E!! I was a guest on The Green Divas Radio Show yesterday to promote Team Eco Etsy and announce a big news! I met Green Diva Meg from The Green Divas Radio Show last week over Vegetable Pad Thai in Union Square, in NYC. You know the famous farmers market [...]

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{Team Eco Etsy News} Workshop for Martha Stewart Dreamers into Doers

February 5, 2012 by ecokaren
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If you are a Team Eco Etsy member – and unless you’ve been away from the computer last few weeks – you know that I am speaking at Martha Stewart’s Dreamers into Doers Annual Conference on March 6th. Yeah, I am! Booyah!!  And trust me, this is a HUGE honor and an incredible opportunity for [...]

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Meet the 2012 Blogging Team

January 29, 2012 by DrinksToDesign
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The New Year is getting off to a great start and we are excited to add nine new bloggers to the EcoEtsy team!  Starting this week, we will be adjusting the weekly schedule and the new bloggers will start posting.  Below is an introduction of what you can expect on the blog this year and [...]

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2011: Eco-Friendly Year in Review for Team Eco Etsy

December 30, 2011 by ecokaren
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I thought 2010 was spectacular for Eco Etsy but let me tell you….2011 was even better…!! When we weren’t busy recycling and upcyling in 2011, we were making our eco-friendly shops more successful than ever. We were being featured in magazines, Etsy newsletters, newspapers, and being voted to be top featured sellers and bloggers. We [...]

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The environmental impact of our holiday celebrations

December 19, 2011 by Beth Revels
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In the midst of the giving season it is often easy to forget the impact we have. To give also means to take away. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However we should keep in mind the impact that our actions have on others, ourselves and our environment. You might be surprised by some of [...]

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Eco Etsy Green Holiday Specials Day Five

December 11, 2011 by DrinksToDesign
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Have a Green Holiday and Support Green Handmade! Shop: Recupe Fashion Discount: 10% off (XMAS10) Start: Now End: Dec 31st Shop: Eyemagination Discount: 40 -50% off jewelery 50-70% off gemstones; Free shipping and expedited shipping till Christmas – customer has to pay minus first class mail costs Start: Now End: Dec 25th Shop: Curly Monkey Discount: 10% off [...]

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Eco Etsy Green Holiday Specials Day Four

December 10, 2011 by ecokaren
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Have a Green Holiday and Support Green Handmade! Shop: BeJeweledNH Promotion: 20% Off Sale Start Date: Dec. 9th End Date: Dec. 11th Shop: The Wooden Bee Promotion:11% off your order when using: RECLAIMED2011 Start Date: Saturday Dec. 10th End Date: Saturday Dec. 17th Shop: Herban Lifestyle Promotion: Free First Class or Priority Shipping within the [...]

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Eco Etsy Green Holiday Specials Day Three

December 8, 2011 by ecokaren
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Have a Green Holiday and Support Green Handmade! Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/juan1 Promotion Type: free domestic shipping Start Date:12/1/11 End Date: 12/15/11 Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/lorigami Promotion Type: 15% off with code greenchristmas Start Date: Dec 1st End Date: Dec. 16th Shop’s LINK: http://www.etsy.com/shop/antiquetochic Promotion Type: 25% off with code COOPER25 Start Date: Dec. 8th End Date: Dec. 14th Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Herbfriend Promotion: 10% off [...]

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Gratitude

November 23, 2011 by ecokaren
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{DIY Lavender Sachet by Ecomonster} Gratitude Whether you are busy traveling or cooking for the annual family feast today, take a moment to contemplate the abundance that the Earth provides you every day. We are blessed in so many ways that words can’t describe how grateful we should feel, about every aspect of our lives, [...]

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Eco Etsy Meet Up Journal Giveaway Winner

June 27, 2011 by ecokaren
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We have a winner for our Meet Up Journal Giveaway! It is…… Congratulations Mariana!! You beat out 234 entrants to win this beautiful journal made by one our Eco Etsy Team members at our Meet Up on June 24, 2011. Please contact Myra within two days to claim this beautiful journal! And the Twitter Giveaway [...]

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Eco Etsy Meet Up

June 26, 2011 by ecokaren
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Pictures are worth a thousand words so here are some photos from our inaugural Eco Etsy Meet Up that was held at Etsy Headquarters on Friday June 24th. Myra (Herban|Luxe), Tia (Primrose Press), Katherine (Reiter8) and Corey (Sansmap) were amazing in organizing the event and putting up with me and my bazillion e-mails. Thank you [...]

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Sprint’s Replenish Review

May 2, 2011 by ecokaren
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If you haven’t heard the news about Eco Etsy partnering with Sprint, you must have been away from the internet – perhaps too busy rescuing our planet? I thought so. But if you heard, that means you also heard about Sprint’s eco-friendly phone, Samsung Replenish™.  (I’ll hold off the adjectives until I tell you the [...]

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Eco Etsy on Sprint’s New Green ID Pack for Android

April 16, 2011 by ecokaren
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We are very proud and excited to announce that we have partnered with Sprint, one of the highest ranked green telecom companies, to link our site to select Android devices for easy green handmade shopping experience for their customers, right at their finger tips. Today, Sprint announced its newest ID Pack called, Green ID Pack [...]

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Earth Day Green Share and Handmade Auction

March 28, 2011 by ecokaren
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Earth Day is 41 years old this year. As our annual celebration, we will be sharing seed packets in our “Green Share” efforts with our community. What is Green Share? Green Share is sharing of a gift of seeds and a starter planter that is given freely to classrooms, local businesses, neighbors, friends and family. [...]

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We are getting better and better

February 17, 2011 by ecokaren
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We are excited to announce some great changes to our humble abode here on Eco Etsy’s site. We have added some new tenants and moved the furniture around a little so that you can appreciate the comforts of our home better. As you have probably noticed, we’ve added a new feature called, {Tuesday Treasury} where [...]

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2010: Eco Friendly Year in Review

December 31, 2010 by ecokaren

2010 has been an amazing year for Team Eco Etsy. We started the year with new leaders and new editors in March, along with a new home for our awesome blog. We’ve had some changes along the way with even newer editors joining us for the blog and changes in some leadership positions too. I [...]

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Eco Etsy Green Holiday Giveaway

October 27, 2010 by ecokaren

Eco Etsy’s first Green Holiday Giveaway! There you have it! Our biggest and most fantastic Green Holiday Giveaway EVER!! Make plans for this huge giveaway! Details will be posted when the giveaway starts next week!

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Green Share from Brasspaperclip

April 17, 2010 by ecokaren

Cindi from Brasspaperclip sent me these darling pictures of her daughter making seed packets to share with her neighbors. She recycled mis-printed wedding invitation envelopes from her shop to use as packets. …and even attached a little pot to plant the seeds! What a great idea! Do you have any “Green Share” pictures you want [...]

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New Team Leaders

March 13, 2010 by ecokaren

Photo: Flickr Commons Spring is finally here and as the new seedlings are edging and pushing their heads out of the ground, shoving aside the hardened earth that has been protecting them throughout the harsh winter and being anxious to start a new life, we are excited to announce the following awesome news. We are [...]

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Glamcycling Giving Prom Dresses New Life & New Memories

March 3, 2010 by Kate @ KnitStorm

It’s Wednesday and I know you may be expecting to find a new Featured Member posting. With prom season on the way, we thought this would be a great post to share. Let me start with a brief introduction. I’m Myra Roldan, the Makeup Doctor on FunkeyMonkeyCompany I’m also a blogger and serialpreneur. You can [...]

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Team Eco Etsy Holiday Mega Sale-A-Thon #4

December 12, 2009 by ecokaren

Many items, vintage, handmade, upcycled at reduced sale prices and various items withfree shipping within the USA. RubysUpcycleDesigns.EtsyRubysUpcycleDesigns.Blogspot Free shipping on certain items and free quirky recycled gift wrapping!Free super strong magnablob with any purchase. (See sold items for examples.)Start Date: Already startedEnd Date: 1/2/10Worldwide or Domestic: Domestic free shipping, free unique gift wrapping foreveryone. [...]

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Team Eco Etsy Holiday Mega-Sale-A-Thon #3

December 10, 2009 by ecokaren

Buy 1 Art print, get 1 Art print free. You choose your prints! Start Date: 1 Dec End Date: 31 Dec Worldwide or Domestic: Everywhere! http://www.etsy.com/shop/littlemoandfriends http://www.littlemoandfriends.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/Little-Mo-and-Friends/122914503178 http://www.twitter.com/little_mo Put CODE: “teamecoetsy rocks!” for extra fun gifts from me inside the packages:) BOGO – 25% off 2nd item and Free domestic priority shipping and 1/2 [...]

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Weekly Blog Theme : Vegitation

March 30, 2008 by Kate @ KnitStorm

This week’s blog theme is ‘Vegitation’. Each week either me or Letitiah will post a theme. It’s your job to search our team tag, teamecoetsy, to find items that match the theme in some way. Be creative

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Eco Etsy Team Sale: Donna Pool

November 30, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

Donna Pool is our last feature for the Eco Etsy Sale and by fare no the least. Her shop is filled with

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Eco Etsy Team Sale: Project Felt, Kae1 Crafts, and Kae1 Supplies

November 29, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

When you think of felted items, you think delicious colors and awesome texture, and Project Felt’s items do deliver on those fronts–and then adds something extra with her eye for clean, modern shapes and her leanings towards functional design. She’s been selling quite a few items that are part of the Eco Etsy Team Sale. [...]

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Eco Etsy Team Sale: Tomatedepingles, Hiphugger,

November 29, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm
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Eco Etsy Team Sale: Lapomme and Rikrak

November 26, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

I had the pleasure of smelling one of Lapomme’s wonderful Lavender Sachets when it was donated for the last contest we held. I’m sure the cuteness of the Sweet Heart Baby Scented Sleep Pillow is nothing short of a great smell as well. Detailed sewing is used to create this fabulous pattern of a baby [...]

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Eco Etsy Team Sale: Crafty Yarn and Shutter Kate

November 21, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

Architect by day, sweater-puller by night, Crafty Yarn sells some of the most eco-friendly products on Etsy: yarns recycled from gently used, high-quality sweaters. With products such as bubblegum-pink silk, lavender lambswool, and bright teal cashmere, her shop is a green knitter’s candy shop! One of her items selling at 20-percent off until 30 November [...]

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October 28th Chat Minutes

November 1, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

Hello all. Sorry so late posting chat minutes on the blog. Letitiah is on vacation so I’m filling in when I can. Our member list has reached about 60 members so far. Each day we are adding new Etsyians to the team. This past Sunday I headed a team chat meeting in which only four [...]

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Eco Etsy now on facebook!

October 23, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

Join the group!

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AVAST! There be contests!

October 22, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

Not another Eco Etsy contest, though – this is an environmentally-themed contest by etsy’s VAST street team. It’s called GREENING UP and you can find ou more info in the GREENING UP contest thread in the forums. Tell ‘em eco etsy sent ya.

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felicitations!

October 13, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

A big ecoetsy congratulations to Lucy of fantazya for her winning photo contest entry! Here’s what some of the judges had to say about her winning entry: Kate says … ” The composition is very appealing and the way the people in it are posing, it’s almost as if they’re a part of their surroundings, [...]

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Everyone Vote For Your Favorite Website

October 11, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

Ellen DeGeneres is running a contest on her show right now, giving everyone a change to vote for there favorite website. We need to spread the word to as many people as possible about Etsy! It will only take 2 minutes of your time. Click Here to vote. What an exciting oportunity to get Etsy [...]

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family portraits: knittergirl and Crea8tiveMama

October 3, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

As the Eco Etsy street team’s first-ever contest draws to a close, I’m noticing a bit of a trend: family portraits. Sure, yeah, everyone takes lots of pictures of their loved ones, but what I love about these portraits are the unique angles and atraditional perspectives they take on the classic portrait shot. Take, for [...]

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don’t stop the huggin’!

October 1, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

Oh my gosh, guys, the end of the Tree Huggin’ photo contest is only six sleeps away! Get snapping! New to the flickr contest photo pool are these two shots. Our first photo is from towhee: Says towhee: “i wrapped myself around this 100 year old oak tree for five months while i worked on [...]

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Tree Huggin’ Competition spotlight: fantazya and incraftwetrust

September 30, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

The Tree Huggin’ photo contest entries have come flooding in for the past few days, and our poor little blog-bot (aka me) has been sniffley and thus fallen wa-a-a-ay behind on the entrant spotlight features! Yikes! Now that I’ve returned to some semblance of health, I’ll try to make it up to you by posting [...]

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The Storque Article

September 25, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

I submitted an article to the Storuqe about the Tree Huggin photo contest. They just posted it today. Click here to view the article. I’m so excited about this and I hope it brings lots of photos to the Flickr pool for judging. Remember, if you are a member of the team and want to [...]

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ladies and gentlemen, the competition has begun.

September 25, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

The Eco Etsy street team’s first contest, Tree Huggin’, has been kick-started by two entries posted in the contest’s flickr pool. The first entry is from visual artist sheridesthelion: Says sheridesthelion: “This is an artist portrait of Sonia Romero and her painting, “Tree Full of Life” from her Tree of Life series. This photograph was [...]

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Welcome From The EcoEtsy Street Team

August 28, 2007 by Kate @ KnitStorm

It’s been a tough couple of weeks getting everything off the ground for the new EcoEtsy Street Team. We still have a long way to go. For those of you who are interested in joining the team, please send an email to ecoetsy@gmail.com with the following informationReal NameEtsy User NameEmail AddressLocation ( optional) As our [...]

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