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Join Earth Cinema Circle - the only DVD club dedicated to increasing social & environmental awareness through entertaining films.

Many Of The Best Movies Go Unseen
Occasionally a movie like An Inconvenient Truth breaks through, but by and large, the best earth-centric movies made every year go virtually unseen. Many people don't realize that hundreds of poignant and important shorts and features are made every year by filmmakers who are passionate about the earth. At Earth Cinema Circle, we screen more than 500 films every year to find the 4 we send to you on your bi-monthly DVD. Earth Cinema Circle gives you a new and easy way to see those films you care about, and to show them to your family and friends.

Many Of The Best Filmmakers Go Unsupported
When you join Earth Cinema Circle you also support a community of filmmakers struggling to get their messages known to the world, messages that are important to all of us. The support that these passionate filmmakers receive from Earth Cinema Circle - that they receive from you - is an important contribution to their ability to continue to make a difference by continuing to make important films.

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The stores I have found during my research so far are listed below. They are different shades of Green. I have given you their philosophy in their own words for you to make an informed decision where you would like to buy. More will be added, so come back often.

1. Sign up for your own Power Mall here: My Power Mall
Choose a Personal or a Business Mall whichever suits you best. (Signing up is completely free and you will be under no obligation to buy or sell anything.)

2. Log in to your back office ("Administration LogIn")

3. In the left hand column you will find a link: "Update Favorite Stores"

4. Insert all your Green stores here like I have done: My Favorite Stores to have them all handy in one convenient place.

5. Shop ALWAYS from this page to get your rebates!

ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE
As a family-run, family-oriented business, Abt Electronics is committed to making the environment cleaner and safer for the benefit of our customers, our employees, our children, and generations to come.

To demonstrate that commitment, we continue to take steps to minimize our impact on the environment and recycle more and more renewable resources each year.

We also are closely involved in programs that promote environmental causes. Abt Electronics is proud to be a part of the "CoolGlobes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet" project, running from June through September in the city of Chicago. This exhibit uses public art-in this case, more than 100 sculpted globes, each measuring five feet in diameter-to inspire people to take action against global warming.

The globes, designed by artists from around the world, are being displayed along Chicago's lakefront, and Abt Electronics is honored to be sponsoring the Energy Star globe. Energy Star is a government-backed program that awards a star to household appliances, electronics, office equipment, and building materials to signify that they meet federal energy-efficiency standards.

To maintain our commitment to the environment, Abt Electronics takes an active, "Green" approach in the following areas:

Recycling
- We currently recycle 1.5 million pounds of cardboard and paper each year.
- We recycle about 120,000 pounds of Styrofoam per year. This enables us to save 150 loads of garbage from going to the landfill. We save another 200 loads by recycling cardboard.
- We recycle 20,000 pallets each year.
- We recycle 5 tractor-trailer loads of appliances each day.
- We are currently building a recycling center next to our main building. This will be able to recycle customers' cardboard, Styrofoam, and appliances (even those that weren't bought at Abt). We are hoping to power the building with a mixture of wind and solar power.
- We recycle all batteries and cell phones.

Building Improvements
- We generate our own power from natural gas with our own co-generators. Natural gas is much cleaner than coal burning.
- We use Pulsar lights in our warehouse. These are 17% more efficient than regular lights. Also, sensors turn off lights in areas that are not in use.
- We are using high-efficiency oversized fans in our warehouse, so less heating is required in the winter and less air conditioning in the summer.

Delivery Fleet
- We maintain our own trucks and keep them running efficiently. We do this on site so there is no need to have them driven elsewhere for maintenance and repairs.
- We allow our drivers to end their day at their homes so the delivery vehicles only make one trip to the store each day. This cuts down on greenhouse gas emissions.
- We are putting in a very efficient 90% recycled water system in our own truck wash.
- We have our own segmented fuel tanks, and our big trucks run on a biodiesel mixture in the summer months.

Employee Programs
- We offer our employees a hot lunch choice on site each day so they don't have to travel somewhere else, which helps to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.
- We provide a workout facility with weight machines, treadmills, a basketball court, a racquetball court, and showers so employees don't have to travel elsewhere to exercise, which also helps to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. They can also ride their bikes to work and take a shower if needed.
- We educate our sales people, making sure they are familiar with programs such as the Energy Star rating system. We often sell customers on the idea of paying a little more now but saving money in the long run, while at the same time conserving energy and reducing their impact on the environment.

We believe in outdoor luxury - that outdoor furnishings should meet the same demands you expect for the interior of your home. We now have the most comprehensive offering of high quality, high style outdoor furniture on the market. Each furniture piece we create is constructed of the finest sustainably harvested premium teak wood

Throughout the last few centuries, teak has been used for tasks that demand strength and durability. Virtually impervious to the elements, the wood has been used in shipbuilding for years. In fact, the first teak outdoor furniture was created using the teak from old ships. Teak's high oil content enables it to naturally repel moisture and insects while preventing it from drying out, rotting or warping. All of the teak used in Arthur Lauer's designs is top grade, sustainably harvested and kiln dried making it the highest quality and the material of choice for consumers who demand excellence in their home furnishings.

"Made in America and Employee Owned.
Quality Craftmanship from Quality Craftsmen."

"Since 1999, we've been bringing the best of modern design to commercial and residential customers.
We have great products that can't be found anywhere else-not even on the internet. We are constantly adding new designs - often for the first time in the US."

While not being entirely "Green" as an enterprise Design Within Reach has a special departmet that offers "Eco Friendly Solutions":

"Items made with eco-friendly materials and manufacturing processes have always been available in our assortment, and now it`s easier to find them."

Items include:
- Energy Efficient
- Greenguard Certified
- Recyclable Products
- Recycled Materials
- Recycling Bags
- Sustainable Materials

Earth Cinema Circle grew out of two neighbors meeting each other for the first time. Gay Hendricks and Rick Ridgeway both live in Ojai, California, a small town about 12 miles inland from the southern California coast just south of Santa Barbara. Gay and his wife Kathlyn are well-know psychologists. Gay has written over 25 books, including the best-sellers Conscious Living and Conscious Loving. He and Kathlyn are founders of the Hendricks Institute that teaches the core skills of conscious living. Rick is also an author who has written six books about adventure, exploration and environmental issues, including the widely read Seven Summits, Below Another Sky and Shadow of Kilimanjaro. He has also directed or produced over 30 television documentaries on the same topics.

When Gay and Rick first met, Gay told him that in addition to his books and the Institute, he already had experience with DVD clubs, as Gay was a founder of a subscription DVD club called Spiritual Cinema Circle. Gay explained that the service filled a need offering award-winning, quality films that inspired viewers with the joys of life's potentials. "They're the kind of films that seldom get picked up by Hollywood," Gay told Rick, "and unless you go to lots of film festivals, you never get to see them. So Spiritual Cinema Circle is great for people who love uplifting movies, and it's great for the filmmakers who otherwise have a hard time getting their films distributed."

Gay told Rick that Spiritual Cinema Circle was only three years old, but the DVD club already had subscribers in over 80 countries. That night Rick thought more about what Gay had told him. Rick also liked to attend film festivals. Each year he went to several that specialized in films about the outdoors, nature, wildlife, and environmental topics and issues. He had friends who went to even more: dozens of festivals across the U.S., Canada and Europe. They all had the same report: they were delighted in how many wonderful films they had seen, because they were the types of movies, documentaries and videos you couldn't find anywhere outside the festival circuit.

In addition to writing books and producing films, Rick is also a committed environmentalist, and his day job is running the environmental initiatives at the outdoor clothing company Patagonia. In addition he helps several environmental groups raise funds, design strategy and in general get the word out about their efforts. The light bulb came on: use Gay's success with the Spiritual Cinema Circle to start a DVD club that would allow nature lovers, conservationists, environmentalists and outdoor enthusiasts the opportunity to see the best of all the films that Rick or his friends had seen at the film festivals.

Next day Rick called Gay to see what he thought about the idea of other DVD clubs: "Interesting you should mention it," Gay said. "I've been thinking of exactly the same thing." Rick was excited because he knew that the service could do more than fill a need for winning a wider audience for films that deserved to be seen. He knew that perhaps more than any other medium, film had the ability to inspire people to get involved and to take action. In addition, as a filmmaker himself who was acquainted with many of the people who made the films he saw in the film festivals, he knew that an environmental and nature film club would be an important source of support for them.

By then Spiritual Cinema Circle had joined the Gaiam community of companies, so Gay and Rick partnered with them to launch Earth Cinema Circle in October, 2007. The mission of Earth Cinema Circle is simple: "increase awareness of environmental films that educate, entertain and inspire action that makes a difference".

When You Join Earth Cinema Circle, You Contribute To The Earth And To Organizations Making A Difference

When you join Earth Cinema Circle, you join a worldwide community that's dedicated to improving the health of our planet.

Please note that all Earth Cinema Circle shipments are carbon offset through contributions we make to the Go Zero program.

How It Works:

1 Subscribe Now
Support environmental filmmakers with only $17.95 +$4.95 S&H every other month. There's no risk. You may cancel at any time.

2 Watch The Films
Every other month you receive a carefully selected collection of full-length and short films.

3 Take Action - Build Community
Share with family and friends! You don't have to send anything back. The films come in eco-friendly packaging and are yours to keep.

Visit Earth Cinema Circle here: My Power Mall

"Gaiam is a health-conscious, environmentally responsible lifestyle company whose goal is to bring LOHAS to the mainstream. The Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) concept is centered on the idea that our own health and happiness is connected to the health of our planet. Taking a holistic approach to our content and product selection, we encourage wholesome lifestyle choices with healthy, green products for your home and body.

Gaiam's Yoga and Green Living Store
From yoga supplies and fitness videos to complete solar power kits, Gaiam is your source for green living and fitness lifestyle products. Browse our Outlet for the best deals on yoga, fitness, and eco-friendly household products, or shop one of our catalogs online:

Gaiam Mind Body - yoga, Pilates, meditation, fitness clothing, exercise...
Gaiam Living - green household cleaners, organic cotton bedding, home decor...
Gaiam Real Goods - off-grid living, solar power kits, renewable energy, eco gadgets..."

Special: GO SOLAR!

"Rebates and tax incentives currently available in many states have made solar power more affordable than ever. There has never been a better time than now to go solar. In most cases, we can provide you with a system that will cost the same or less than what you currently pay for utility power and in many cases solar will pay for itself almost instantly.
Congratulations on making the decision to solarize your home using clean, reliable and efficient solar power!"

Gardener's Supply was founded in 1983 by a handful of enthusiastic Vermont gardeners. Today, we serve millions of gardeners nationwide, offering everything from seedstarting supplies and garden furniture to flower supports and garden carts. Though our company has grown, we remain passionately committed to providing garden-tested, earth-friendly products that will help our customers have more fun and success in their gardens.

A Company of Gardeners
Gardener's Supply is proud to be employee-owned. We are gardeners ourselves and have earned our customers' trust by providing high-quality products, expert information and friendly, personalized service.

We understand the products that we sell because we use them in our own gardens. Regular product training sessions and a gardening certification program for our staff help us to provide the best service and support in the business.

At our headquarters in Burlington, Vermont, you can check out the Gardener's Supply store and stroll through our display gardens. We also offer seminars and special events throughout the year.

Innovative Gardening Solutions
Working with customers, market gardeners, universities, manufacturers and suppliers throughout the world, we provide smart, garden-tested solutions for most every gardening challenge. Over the last 25 years, Gardener's Supply has designed and introduced dozens of innovative gardening products, including self-watering planters, a complete line of flower supports, composters, grow lights, professional growing mediums, organic fertilizers and more.

We have our own research and development team and maintain a half-acre test garden. We also have our own manufacturing facility in Georgia, Vermont, where we produce garden carts, raised beds, light gardens and many of the other products we offer.

A Partner in Your Gardening Success
Many of our customers have shared their Success Stories.
Gardener's Supply is in business to help you experience the joys of fresh, healthy food, colorful, fragrant flowers and a yard and garden growing in harmony with nature. If you need help identifying a pest or choosing the right support for your perennials, we are always happy to help. We'll make sure that you get the right product and all the information you need to use it most effectively.

The Learning pages on our web site are packed with tips and techniques that we've gleaned from years of experience serving gardeners from Maine to Arizona. If you have specific gardening questions, you can e-mail our team of gardening experts for a fast, personalized reply.

Improving the World Through Gardening
Gardener's Supply actively promotes gardening as an important way for people to make the world a better place in their own backyards, in their communities, and in the world at large. We donate 8 percent of our pre-tax profits to gardening-related initiatives and organizations working in the areas of sustainable agriculture, the environment and hunger.

Our Garden Crusader Awards recognize people across the country who are using gardening to improve the quality of life in their communities. This year Gardener's Supply will award more than $12,000 in cash and prizes.

We also provide major gifts to a number of non-profit organizations through our national donations program. Recipients include the American Community Gardening Association, the American Horticulture Therapy Association, and Plant a Row for the Hungry.

In Vermont, our local donations program helps fund more than 50 community organizations. We also founded, and continue to be a lead sponsor for the Intervale Center, which oversees the land and farming activities in the 700-acre floodplain adjacent to our offices in Burlington.

Gardener to Gardener
Your feedback is important to us. We're eager to know about the challenges that you face in your own garden; the products that you like, and those that you don't. Is there a tool you're looking for that you just can't find? A gardening problem that needs solving? We encourage you to e-mail us: info@gardeners.com

Visit the Gardener's Supply Company here: My Power Mall

Gardens Alive! is one of the country's leading mail order companies dedicated to biological control of garden pests. Sales are nationwide and the company traces its roots back to the early 1980's and the kitchen and garage of founder and President, Niles Kinerk.

Environmentally Responsible Products That Work

And it's on that ground that I urge you to try some of our products on your lawn or garden. Not because they can help slow the turning of our groundwater into a toxic chemical soup (though you can consider that a bonus); and not because they're healthier for you, your family, your pets, and the birds and animals that share your little corner of the ecosystem (though most people would consider that a pretty potent added value); and not even because many of them will help you build a living, vital soil that helps your garden vegetables, flowers and lawn shrug off insect pests and diseases. No, we want you to try them to prove to yourself that they work, that quality, tested, environmentally sound products can match the chemical alternatives penny for penny and result for result. If you do, and prove to yourself that you can "do well by doing good," we all (including humans, plants, beneficial insects, pets and wildlife) come out on top.

And There's More

I've only touched upon a couple of items in the line of Gardens Alive! "environmentally responsible products that work." Whether you want to control fleas in your home, pests in your garden or moths on your fine woolens; whether you want to keep deer from destroying your landscape plants or want to raise spectacular roses without chemicals; or whether you're growing bulbs or vegetables or fruit trees or grass seed, Gardens Alive! has a product that will help you succeed without turning your garden, yard or home into a minefield of chemical worries, a product that can save your peace of mind and soothe your budget.

Environmentally responsible products that work? You bet, and it's about time!

Visit Gardens Alive! here: My Power Mall

The Home Depot Introduces Eco Options

As a company, The Home Depot is committed to conserving and preserving the earth's natural resources. We're dedicated to making communities a better place for generations to come. The Home Depot is continuing its environmental presence with the introduction of Eco Options: products that make it easy for you to make a difference, one choice at a time.

Eco Options is designed to give you environmentally friendly product options for your home and home improvement needs. Every product with the Eco Options label has less of an impact on the environment than conventional products. Specifically, Eco Options products offer one or more of the following benefits:

- Sustainable Forestry
- Energy Efficiency
- Clean Water
- Clean Air
- Healthy Home

The Home Depot is working closely with vendors and independent experts to bring new and innovative environmentally friendly products to our customers. Continuing through 2007, products that meet the criteria will be tagged with the Eco Options logo, making it easy for you to spot these environmentally friendly product options.

Eco Options labeled products have less of an impact on the environment than conventional products and provide a positive environmental change through their use.

Sustainable Forestry: Sustainable forest products are those that have been produced from eco-friendly resources such as wood harvested from responsibly managed forests.

Energy Efficient: Energy-efficient products use significantly less energy than traditional products, reducing the amount of electricity that needs to be generated and also saving you money by lowering energy bills!

Healthy Home: Contribute to a healthy lifestyle and indoor environment by reducing sources of contamination in and around your home.

Clean Air: Includes products that improve air quality and reduce the emissions that contribute to climate change

Clean Water: In and around your home, this means choosing products that use water efficiently.

Visit The Home Depot here: My Power Mall

When Rob Brandegee and Ava DeMarco founded Little Earth Productions, Inc. in 1993 they had a simple but revolutionary idea: design and make fashionable, unique and trendsetting purses and belts by reusing and recycling materials that would otherwise be overlooked or thrown away. Not only did the idea work, but it introduced the world to a new term: ecofashion.

In proportion to its popularity, Littlearth has grown from a small company working out of a suburban home into a multi-building design and manufacturing complex in the SoHo district of Pittsburgh. Now in its 15th year of business, Littlearth products from the Littlearth family of brands are starting conversations all over the United States and all over the world with distributors in Australia, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Today, Littlearth is based in the Hill District of Pittsburgh and employs more than 40 people. Their employees also are a "little earth" - they represent people from all over the world.

Today, Littlearth has established itself as "designers of the coolest recycled accessories on the planet." Littlearth's brand of hip fashion accessories and gift items, created from recycled materials, has enormous appeal to a wide range of people, from fashion-conscious teens to eco-conscious baby boomers. Littlearth has established a loyal following by offering products that appeal to this group's design aesthetic, sense of individuality and concern for their world.

Littlearth´s products are sold in more than 1,000 stores nationwide, and around the world. Littlearth has been featured on Oprah!, in the Wall Street Journal, CNN and Inc. Magazine. Their accessories have been worn by the stars of such TV shows as Party of Five, Melrose Place, ER, MTV's VJ's, and the band members of Van Halen, and have been seen on celebrities everywhere, from Chelsea Clinton to Brooke Shields to Jay Leno.

Last year, Littlearth actively recycled-among other things-more than 30 tons of rubber, 40,000 license plates and 1/4 million bottle caps.

Plow & Hearth is a trusted national catalog, retail, and internet company specializing in unique, enduring home and lifestyle products that are quality-built and guaranteed to meet our customer's expectations.

Our Products
By offering products with practical, sustainable uses and eco-friendly attributes, we encourage our customers to be environmentally responsible. Our buyers strive to find unique, enduring products for the home, hearth, yard and garden that are quality built and responsibly produced. We give special consideration to those products made with environmentally friendly materials. We provide our customers with practical products that help them live a sustainable lifestyle. Some of the environmentally friendly products sold at the original Plow & Hearth store in 1980 are still popular and just as efficient today. Products that promote sustainability and environmental awareness include composting products, non-invasive pest control, energy-saving insulated curtains and wood burning accessories.

Environmental Policy
We also work closely with artisans and manufacturers around the world to develop innovative products created from uncommon materials and crafted by hand whenever possible. Our product development initiative has resulted in dozens of distinctive products exclusive to Plow & Hearth, from Turkish-inspired trellises to unique braided rugs to enchanting quilt designs.

Travelling by train (instead of by car or plane) is in itself a "green" activity so I have included this Railway Agency here.

"Railpass.com helps you choose the perfect rail pass or train tickets for your trip and helps you learn about the best ways to get the most out of your rail journeys.

Railpass.com is the largest single rail pass outlet in the U.S., hundreds of thousands of satisfied rail travelers have purchased train tickets, rail passes or other travel products from Railpass.com. With over 60 types of Rail Passes (including Eurail Pass, Eurail Select Pass, Eurail Flexipass, Eurail National Pass, Eurail Regional Pass, BritRail Pass, Rail n Drive Passes and many more) and over 70,000 City to City Rail Tickets available to book online, it is no surprise that we have been recommended by the best-selling guidebooks, Europe by Eurail and Britain by BritRail. Railpass.com's experienced agents have been helping fellow travelers for over 20 years.

The Railpass.com call center and exclusive online help tools such as RailSaver cut through the confusion of over 5,000 pass combinations, and rail passes can be shipped out the same day. In addition to unmatched experience and service, Railpass.com offers the choice of free stuff such as free iTunes or free shipping for all online orders over $349 US."

DIATECT® International is becoming a market trendsetter in providing natural, bug-killing products

Company Information
Over the years, DIATECT® International has worked to create environmentally friendly yet extremely effective insect control products. During that time DIATECT® International has established a line of EPA registered products that have proven to be the answer to safely solving most insect control problems at an affordable cost. DIATECT®'s approach to insect control is the application of effective and natural ingredients, producing "Safe Insect Control That Works!".

The Natural Choice
upurea.com offers the largest selection of organic & natural skin care, hair care, body care and home fragrance products on the web. Over 500 products from more than 25 diverse lines.

Upurea`s Philosophy:

"UPUREA - BY NATURE. FOR LIFE.

Welcome to upurea, your virtual destination offering the purest, most effective natural and organic products derived from nature for mind, body and soul.

In the 21st century we undertake to care for ourselves by consuming organic products, practicing yoga, and cleaning our homes with non-toxins. Our skin, the body's largest organ, absorbs a significant amount of what is placed upon it; why, then, continue to poison ourselves with harsh, non-natural synthetic chemicals found in conventional beauty care products? At upurea, we recognize that gorgeous, healthy skin and hair is best achieved by what nature offers, naturally!

Nature provides us the most powerful anti-oxidants, healing compounds, and nourishing detoxifyers. It is this limitless bounty that upurea strives to offer, through the careful procurement of the purest, most indulgent products made on our planet.

All products promoted on the upurea site are staff reviewed, and guaranteed free of harmful ingredients. upurea now carries over 30 brands from all over the world, and will launch more before the end of 2007."

Earth Cinema Circle
Gaiam.com
Gardener`s Supply Company
Gardens Alive!
Home Depot

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