recycled materials: eco greenhouse construction

This greenhouse looks like an easy enough build. Check your local recycled architectural materials yard.
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floracopeia: aromatic medicinals

Floracopeia's offers traditional medicinal plants and the highest quality essential oils while promoting ecologically sustainable projects. Founded by David Crow, the goals of Floracopeia include economically supporting and uplifting ecological farmers around the world by purchasing their high-quality aromatic products, to preserve rainforests by purchasing aromatic products from sustainable agroforestry projects and to promote the use of ethnobotanical medicines as solutions to the widespread ecological destruction taking place in the world.
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solar led leaf streetlights: botanical illumination

Gorgeous led concept lighting by Jongoh Lee’s: the Invisible Streetlight is a solar-powered alternative to unattractive street lamps. The lighting wraps around existing branches, blending into the environ. The Invisible Streetlight stores the sun’s energy throughout the day creating a non obtrusive and beautiful solution to nighttime lighting. Lee was awarded with an IDEA award for excellence in design for this creation.

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japanese eco design: namba park

This urban design in Osaka where an old baseball stadium used to stand, this complex called Namba Park houses a 30-floor skyscraper, tower, and a shopping mall with eight floors of terraced gardens. The sloping park connects to the lower street so that pedestrians can enjoy the lawn, trees, streams & ponds.
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nature inspired jewelry

I love jewelry! Especially jewelry inspired by botanicals, trees, etc... These lovelies are all from Etsy:
Chrysanthemum pendant
Sweet Horse Chestnut hoops earrings
Gingko ring

dark ferns pendant
sprout pendant
pine cone pendant

tree root necklace
tree with aquamarine necklace
woodgrain cuff bracelet
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egyptian magic: humectant moisterizer

I love this stuff- made with olive oil, bees wax, honey, bee pollen, royal jelly, bee propolis.
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