Sweet and Super Green Wedding Gifts

Summer is wedding time, and if you’re like me, you might be running out of ideas for great, eco-friendly gifts. I try to give native trees or bushes from my local nursery (a great gift because they add value to a home, are not too expensive, are pretty, and they suck up CO2 to boot!) But some friends are not into planting and landscaping, or live in apartments in New York City, which is why I’m so excited about Uncommon Goods. Seriously, not only is their stuff ‘not the usual gift crap’, to quote myself, but they also have a whole recycled section (10 pages of it!). Check out some of my favorite picks below.

Lamps Made of Old Circuit Boards, $220-$280

Basket Made from Wine Barrels, $215

Recycled Glass Plates, $72

And if you’re feeling particularly generous…..

Chair Made from Old NYC Street Signs (really lights up!), $3,700

Recycled Pinball Machine, Now a Table, $2,800

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Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.

4 Comments on “Sweet and Super Green Wedding Gifts”

maxmsf
those lamps are especially nice. I also really like these tables that seemed like they could belong in your set of items:
http://ecofabulous.blogs.com/e.....cycle.html
07/21/07 » 11:25 am »
Lety V.
god damn those are expensive for what they are. but the lamps are pretty nice.
im a cheapskate aren’t i?
i hope people don’t spend that much on our wedding gifts. i’d feel guilty or something.
08/03/07 » 2:54 pm »
crestosssa
Hey
I was surfing the web and i saw this site, pretty cool.
Currently im running and adult site:Reachton
k, just want to say hi
Can i link you from my site? im looking for quality content like yours. If no let me know if i can add u in exchange for a montly fee or something.
08/03/07 » 3:32 pm »
Corrina McFarlane
Hello, I only just found you. What a huge amount of very cool stuff you have posted.
This flowgram I made is in the eco-chick spirit: it features ethical diamonds and charitable registry but also just championing love-of-life..
figured this was kindred spirit territory!
Corrina
http://beta.flowgram.com/f/p.html#JVNLT1WCBWKQ09
“Wedding Touchstone”:
VOWS WILL BE MADE… “A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of (all) people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must ….” (finish the sentence according to your high ideals).
05/16/08 » 1:37 am »