- TWO BETTYS AND A BROOM: Eco-friendly cleaning service. Contact: Anna Tsantir. 612-720-8768. twobettysclean@yahoo.com*Recomended by TC Green
- CLEAN THE FUNK UP: Advance your enterprise! Leaders know that actions speak louder than words. When you need to lighten your load, Clean the Funk up will do the dirty work. * Commercial * Short notice/emergency * Move in/ Move out * 100% Non-Toxic * 100% Thoughful, Experienced Cleaners For a change visit our website... www.cleanthefunkup.com Or Contact Megan @ 612-822-1740.
- CLEAN GREEN HOMES: Clean
Green Homes is a small Twin Cities based all-natural home cleaning
business offering regular weekly, bi-weekly and special occasion
service. Safe, chemical-free, non-toxic cleansers are used to get and
keep your home in immaculate condition.
Call today to schedule an estimate. www.cleangreenhomes.com
Contact: Bride Sweeney, Phone 612-216-2068
green your traveling
THE GREEN ROUTES WEBSITE is an easy-to-use tool to help you find one-of-a-kind places to eat, play, shop, sleep, and learn. Green Routes will help you discover small, unique businesses that are rooted in their communities; places to eat where the food is not only fresh from a family farm, but where you might bump into the farmers who grew it; places to have fun while helping to ensure that our natural and cultural resources will be around for many generations to come. Green Routes gives you a way to incorporate your values into your travels. It makes it easy to find fun and rich experiences and places. WEBSITE: http://www.greenroutes.org/
EXPLORE MINNESOTA: The untouched wilderness is part of what makes Minnesota incredible. These are the kinds of places where natural beauty can’t be captured in photographs. Whether you’d like to paddle the pristine waters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness or track birds with your binoculars at Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge, there are many ways to travel green. WEBSITE: click HERE to be redirected.
Independent Traveler has put together a list of five locations that not only met its criteria for unique biodiversity, but also for a local commitment to sustainable tourism. Ecological tourism, usually shortened to ecotourism, is a form of tourism which aims to be ecologically and socially conscious. CLICK HERE to check it out.
green your home remodeling
NATURAL BUILT HOME is the Twin Cities one-stop shop for eco-friendly building supplies. Their high-quality products are selected to be safe for you and your family and sustainable for the environment. NBH caries bamboo floors, non-toxic paint, recycled glass tile and much more. Their dedicated team of professionals serve homeowners, designers and building professionals in Minnesota and across the country. WEBSITE: www.naturalbuilthome.com
THE REUSE CENTER is
committed to offering the highest quality reclaimed and surplus
building products at the lowest prices! They're recognized metro-wide
for their wide array of kitchen cabinetry, doors, windows, wood
flooring, paneling and decking, granite and solid surface counters,
ceramic and stone tile, clawfoot tubs, spa baths, pedestal sinks,
vanities, toilets, carpet, lighting, mantels, millwork/trim, and
more. WEBSITE: http://www.thereusecenter.com/
green your eating out
GALACTIC PIZZA. *Very friendly, down to earth folks, they are striving to have a values-led, green-company. They recycle most of their waste, use electric cars to deliver pizza's and have hemp products in their recipes. Almost all the gourmet pizzas's are veggie or vegan optional, and they have a full organic veggie menu to create your own salad. I loved the Rasta Pasta with hemp pesto, broccoli, and roma tomatoes, and the Vegan Alamo Pizza with a mozzarella-wannabe that tastes great and a tangy BBQ sauce. The ambiance is an eclectic mixture of formica 50's style tables, antique lamps, petunias, board games and funky music. Nice place.
WEBSITE: http://galacticpizza.com
*Description from www.greenpeople.org
*THE BIRCHWOOD CAFE is a Vegetarian Restaurant, voted as one of the best in Minneapolis by Citypages in 2000 & 2003. A nice little health food cafe in the Seward nieghborhood, they are very active in the community and sponsor a bike team. They also line the walls with local artists' work and sometimes feature special shows. Their menu consists of high quality cheeses, fresh fruit, and all natural grain breads. They sell beer & wine only, but offer a good selection to choose from. The crowd is varied age, but the youngest are around 25 (not including families); most live in the area. Perhaps the best thing on the menu are their pizzas, which they offer great specials on for Saturday nights. Note: The Birchwood Cafe is more for food than drinking or a wild night on the town, but its worth a stop for the health concious. Only open until 9pm. www.birchwoodcafe.com
*Description from www.thriftyhipster.com
green your clothing
BIRCH CLOTHING sells apparel and accessories made from sustainable fabrics and recycled materials that are constructed under fair labor conditions. Located in Minneapolis, Birch is a boutique for consumers seeking to shop their values, as well as those who simply appreciate classic and contemporary styles made from high-quality fabrics. The clothing Birch carries is made from natural fibers and sustainable fabrics such as organic cotton and linen, hemp, silk, bamboo, wool, tencel and soy.
green your recyclables
Do you have something you'd like to recycle or dispose of in an eco-friendly way, but not sure what you should do? CLICK HERE for the ultimate guide!
green your vocabulary
Check out this list of GREEN terminology
green your wood and trim
"To harvest, shape and sell wood that would otherwise be thrown away." Get more information on Chuckdwood here: www.chuckdwood.com
green your death
The modern concept of natural burial has spread across the globe. The Centre for Natural Burial provides comprehensive resources supporting the development of natural burial and detailed information about natural burial in your area. Natural burial is a new idea—the idea that in choosing how and where
we are buried, each one of us can conserve, sustain, and protect the
earth… the earth from which, we came and to which we shall return. A natural burial allows you to use your funeral as a conservation tool to create, restore and protect urban green spaces. Pictured: Ecopod, recycled paper coffin.