Make your Valentine’s Day dinner party extra special this year by decorating your tableware with edible paint & glitter. It’s super easy, completely edible and eco-friendly. All you need are a few ingredients that you most likely have in the pantry and some plain jane dishes to dress up.

Let’s get started…

DIY Edible Sugar Glitter

Mix 2 tablespoons of sugar and a few drops of liquid food coloring until the color is evenly distributed. (You can also substitute salt for sugar, however the grains of salt give off less sparkle than the sugar.)

Line a baking tray with aluminium foil. Pour the colored sugar onto the baking tray and spread the sugar thinly and evenly on the tray. Preheat your oven to 300ºF. Place the baking tray with sugar in the oven and bake for 10 to 12 minutes.

Remove tray from oven and let the sugar cool completely. Use a fork to break up clumps of sugar that may have formed.

DIY Edible Paint

Mix 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon of water, and 2 drops of liquid food coloring.

Apply with a paintbrush to plain dishes, mugs or even glassware.

Sprinkle your homemade suger glitter on the paint while it is still wet to add a little extra sparkle and shine to every dish.

And when it’s time to clean up, just wash your dishes like normal. The paint and glitter will just melt off in hot water.

Have fun! Get creative! The sky’s the limit to color scheme & design.

Chicagoland just got a little better with Door to Door Organics, a unique delivery service that brings good food right to your doorstep.

Door to Door Organics has partnered with organic farmers to offer the freshest seasonal, local produce and the perfect selection of natural groceries to support healthy lifestyles, local farms and a healthier environment!

They also offer great planning and shop-by-recipe tools, you can be sure to get good food on to the table that is nourishing your health, your family and the environment.

Be good to your body & the earth by ordering fresh, local produce from Door to Door Organics.

And for all you new customers…enter in the promo code “GoGreen” at checkout to receive $10 off your first order of any of their organic produce boxes.

Grillin’ and summer go hand in hand. But how green is your grill? Follow these easy tips by Easy Green TV to make sure your next cookout is earth-friendly!

Baking yummy vegan treats can be difficult. Finding that right substitute for the eggs in your recipe can make or break that mmm factor. See how Sangeeta Kumar uses common household ingredients such as bananas, tofu, flax seeds, and other foods can be used as alternatives to eggs in cookies, cakes, muffins, and other baked good recipes.

Earthship is a radically sustainable green building made of recycled materials and powered by the sun & the wind, catching water, treating sewage, heating and cooling through thermal dynamics and growing food. It’s extreme Green living at it’s best by architect Michael Reynolds.

Here’s a detailed look inside an Earthship:

Cinco de Mayo is all about good company, music, the best food & margaritas. Celebrate this fifth of May with this killer organic Margarita recipe:

Margarita Ingredients:

• 3oz of 4 Copas 100% Agave Organic Tequila (or a similar organic tequila)
• 2oz of freshly squeezed organic lime juice
• 1oz of simple agave syrup
• Topped with some organic sugar and kosher salt for the rim

Margarita Directions:

Step 1:
Prechill your glasses by putting them in a freezer for a few hours prior to the party.

Step 2:
Make the simple syrup by adding 1 part agave nectar, 1 part organic sugar, & 1 part water to a sauce pan and cook over low heat until the sugar is dissolved, stirring occasionally.

Step 3:
Next fill your cocktail shaker with the tequila, lime juice, simple syrup & ice.  Shake until mixed and cool.

Step 4:
Mix up 2 parts salt and 1 part sugar and put it in a dish. (You can do this prior to the party.) Dip the rim of your chilled glass in the sugar/salt mix.

Step 5:
Strain the Margarita drink mix into your chilled salted glass, serve & enjoy!

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

World Water Day is an international day held annually on March 22nd to celebrate freshwater and a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

Celebrate your World Water Day today by building your own water filtration system.

Learn how to celebrate this St. Paddy’s Day with GristTV’s 5 tips to Get Wasted and Waste Less.

Green Drinking Tips:

1. Drink Organic
2. Get Corked
3. Kag or Bottle
4. Don’t Drive & Drink
5. Home Brew

Call it thrifty or old fashion, but to cut kitchen waste you’ll need to cook like grandma used to. It’s easy, doesn’t take much extra time and the reward is eco-friendly goodness.

4 Waste Cutting Kitchen Tips

1. Use up leftovers. You don’t have to eat the same thing over and over; try incorporating them into new recipes instead of letting them sit in the fridge.
2. Don’t go to restaurants or order take-out. By cooking at home you’ll save money, and you’ll avoid the waste from extra take-out packaging.
3. Don’t just cook. Cook from scratch. Whole, natural ingredients are better for you. Avoid the pre-packaged stuff, and you’ll avoid preservatives, additives and the wasted packaging material.
4. Be thrifty. But don’t be thrifty by buying cheap stuff. Try to pick appliances and other big items that are durable & will last you a long time.

It may not be summer yet, but Chicago is heating up this Valentine’s week! And what better then to quench your thirst in this heat wave then with an eco-friendly Steinlager Pure Beer from New Zealand.

Steinlager Pure is smooth and refreshing with no additives, or preservatives made from New Zealand water, malted barley, hops and yeast.

Steinlager Pure is brewed with the highest integrity and follows rigorous sustainability practices in order to maintain the unaffected nature of its surroundings and allow for environmentally friendly brewing. The Pride Brewery uses 10% less energy in the brewing process, low energy lighting and harvests rainwater for non-brewing purposes. Steinlager also has a record of reduced water use and CO2 emissions, as well as recycling, reusing or value-adding to more than 99% of the solid waste generated.

Steinlager Pure is a great gift for any Valentine who loves beer & the earth. Buy yours today!