This is the best of the online green shopping malls. We've tried to give a broad and balanced selection of eco shops and services, (more to appear soon) with an ability for you to do some comparison shopping, but each has unique environment responsive merchandise showcasing its own eco definition. There are a very few not-so-green, strictly speaking, offerings. They are included because either they help protect our most valuable natural resource--our children--or the health advantage vastly outweighs any environmental issue. They may be termed 'natural' rather than 'organic'.
As a rule, the word 'natural' has no official place in the jargon of ecological responsibility. It is used by some of the businesses included in YGBP, and in some of YGBP's own commentary, as an indication of a site's goods having no added 'unnatural' ingredients or components such as chemicals, growth enhancers, pigments not 'naturally' occurring macrocosmically (chemical dyes vs. botanically sourced colors), and being for the most part greener and genetically closer to original components rather than heavily processed or convolutedly manufactured and a more estranged and distant relative of their original parts. These products, however, cannot be termed 'organic' because of components being cultivated with non-organic ingredients. The word 'natural' has led, in some cases, to nonclarity about just how 'real' and 'pure' an item might be, due to very liberal applications of the word. (Everything, broken down to its elements, is, afterall, 'natural'. It is our fiddling with some of these elements that nature's provisions become toxic when they shouldn't be. There is no regulation on where that fiddling needs to stop before we can no longer call it 'natural'.)
As a rule, the word 'natural' has no official place in the jargon of ecological responsibility. It is used by some of the businesses included in YGBP, and in some of YGBP's own commentary, as an indication of a site's goods having no added 'unnatural' ingredients or components such as chemicals, growth enhancers, pigments not 'naturally' occurring macrocosmically (chemical dyes vs. botanically sourced colors), and being for the most part greener and genetically closer to original components rather than heavily processed or convolutedly manufactured and a more estranged and distant relative of their original parts. These products, however, cannot be termed 'organic' because of components being cultivated with non-organic ingredients. The word 'natural' has led, in some cases, to nonclarity about just how 'real' and 'pure' an item might be, due to very liberal applications of the word. (Everything, broken down to its elements, is, afterall, 'natural'. It is our fiddling with some of these elements that nature's provisions become toxic when they shouldn't be. There is no regulation on where that fiddling needs to stop before we can no longer call it 'natural'.)
The pages in YGBP contain information and links to websites that offer green lifestyle products at reasonable prices. We take pride in bringing you green merchants and their eco shops in one of the best of green shopping malls. We offer a wide range of sustainable shopping for a sustainable ecology, from organic clothes and food to organic health and beauty. You will find eco home accessories to compliment eco sustainable homes and be able to clean them with an environmentally friendly cleaner. We can help with healthy pet raising and provide means of raising a garden with biodynamic planting. It's eco design for your life--an online shopping experience to enhance an ecologically responsible way of maintaining a healthy cohabitation with Planet Earth.
Whenever and wherever possible, the integrity of a product's "greenness" goes all the way back to its birth in production, on through to its packaging. When available, the products are USA-made, and as close a descendant of their natural components as possible. If made outside the US, environmental sustainable development and ethical trade is the rule.
We think you'll enjoy our range of ecosafe product offerings.. After extensive research we feel we have selected some of the finest companies offering fair trade and organic products allowing us all to live our lives with a nod toward a healthy nurturing relationship with our environment.
Quick, easy, CONVENIENT is what Eco Shopping Online at YourGREENBluePlanet.com means. We offer you ways to help make your shopping enjoyable and expedient, at the same time a means to a Good Green Earth.
Stores are presented here with examples of what they offer along with a few links. Once 'inside' a store the entire store is open to you. Please explore their links and enjoy the place.
Enjoy Our 'Eco Mall Square'
Our eco shopping mall can be thought of as your hometown shopping square, but with everything in an environmentally sustainable design--like in the good old (really old!) days. And, conveniently, online. What could be better? With everything conveniently located and easily accessible, and planet- and people-friendly, you have the best of all worlds right at, literally, your fingertips.
