Crown Your Eco Queen

Still chilly in your neck of the woods? Crown your favorite queen with the chic cashmere cap by legendary eco couture designer Deborah Lindquist. This adorable, super soft hat is made in the USA from 100% recycled cashmere sweaters to keep those regal ladies in your life super toasty. And you know what’s even better than a cute couture hat that’s sustainably made? The fact that it’s majorly on sale. Happy lady, happy wallet, Happy Valentine’s Day! $55 (Down from $110)

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Regift

Who knew regifting for Valentine’s Day could be so cool? Art meets eco meets technology with these beautiful crimson and orange hearts by Heart Is Hot. Made in the US from 100% recycled glass, each HIH piece is etched with its own individual number, the epic flower of life symbol, and the Heart Is Hot web address. What makes these so cool is that everyone who gives or receives this heart logs on to HeartIsHot.com and tells their story of how it came into their life and what inspired them to pass it on to the next person. The physical journey of each traveling heart is tracked at HeartIsHot.com, using a custom Google map, and each piece has an archive of “heart stories” associated with it that anyone can go to the site and read. These make the perfect gift for those people in your life who are huge romantics, big supporters of conscious commerce, need a deeply heartfelt gift, or just really love a good story. As Heart Is Hot founder Sahara Damore says, “Heart Is Hot represents re-gifting at its finest.” $24.99 ($2 of which is donated to the Unstoppable Giving Foundation…this gift really keeps on giving!)

Regifts Refined

Heart Is Hot offers regifting at it’s finest and ExBoyfriendJewelry.com offers regifting at its most refined. Here women sell off the old baubles from their ex-whatevers that are taking up space (physical and mental) in their lives. Men can snatch these beauties up for their babes and pay rock bottom prices for guilt-free and blood-free (because it’s reused instead of new) diamonds and gold. If you think you can’t possibly buy recycled jewelry from someone else’s break-up to give to the love of your life, try finding that Tiffany & Co. Heart Tag Necklace and Bracelet set for $50 somewhere else! That’s what I thought…just follow the hyperlink above gentlemen. $12 and up

Organic Hot Oil Massage

Clearly, this is not a great gift for your mom or boss on V-Day (ahem), but if you want to show your girlfriend, wife, or main squeeze how much you love them, there’s nothing quite like a deep tissue hot oil massage. Most importantly, make sure to use a high quality oil.

Organic coconut oil is sensual (and delicious) and is available at any health food store. I also highly recommend the delectable Chocolate Body Oil by Kopali Organics and the Malagasy Ginger body oil by Pangea Organics. According to Pangea, the ingredients are “stimulating” and “revitalizing.” Sounds like a great way to make love-strike that, I mean show your love this Valentine’s Day.

Step 1-To warm the oil, submerge the container in a bowl of medium hot water and let it sit for 5-10 minutes. Step 2-Light some candles. Step 3-Take a few deep breaths with your partner. Step 4-Initiate rubdown of each and every part. Step 5-What kind of blog do you think this is? You’re on your own now dawg, fo’real. $7-$21

Light Her Fire

The Soi Company of Northern California makes the very best non-toxic naturally scented candles. Delicious scents for Valentine’s Day include Red Currant, Goddess, and Love Spell Divine. The Soi Company candles are handmade with 100% kosher soy oil. They are soot-free, burn cleaner and about 40% longer than wax candles, and do not emit any harmful toxins (nothing kills the mood like inhaling carcinogens!) These candles are so pure in fact, that the melt pool can be used as a skin moisturizer or applied as a soothing remedy to sunburned skin, eczema, psoriasis, and poison oak. Or you could just pour the wax all over your partner-just make sure they’re into it first. $3.95-$27.95

Dear (Recycled) Diary

Be certain your lady has something to write down just how mindblowing her Valentine’s date was with this adorable journal by Sweet Thoughts. The retro style cover is actually made from a repurposed candy box. Inside is 40 sheets of 100% recycled paper. $12.50

Whatever you share with your lovely ladies this Valentine’s Day, remember, the most important gift for every woman is being listened to with close attention and feeling adored…Though gifts do help on the second part, come to think of it. I’m just sayin’.

Do you love reworking your old pieces to make something hot for the club or office? Do you have piles of shirts in your closet begging for a purpose? Give those ill fitting t-shirts from days gone by a serious revamp and enter ReShirt today!

Check out these prizes…

* Winner: $300 Greenloop Gift Certificate and a 30 minute FREE style consultation with celebrity stylist Barbra Horowitz
* 1st runner up: Copy of Closet Control by Barbra Horowitz and $50 Greenloop Gift Certificate
* 2nd runner up: Copy of Closet Control by Barbra Horowitz and $25 Greenloop Gift Certificate
* All 3 winners will be reviewed and posted on Greenloop’s In The Loop…fame and fortune could be yours all with just the snip of your scissors!

Contest Rules:

1. You must reuse a t-shirt you already own, nothing new please.

2. The redesign process should only include cutting and tying techniques. For our inaugural ReShirt contest, there will be no dyeing, silkscreening, or sewing.

3. All participants must be US residents over the age 18.

4. The contest runs from today, Friday, April 25th, through Friday, May 23rd. All submissions must be received no later than 12:00 midnight on Friday, May 16th,2008

5. Design submissions are to photographed and submitted via email to aysia[at]thegreenloop.com. Please submit 4 photos: front and back shots of the t-shirt both on a person and lying flat on a surface. Biography about the designer must be submitted with the entries, limited to 500 words, and must contain email, address and telephone contact information.

These gorgeous FSC-certified walnut wedges from Mohop are a must for Spring. Annie Mohaupt’s unique design allows you to create totally different looks depending on the way you tie the ribbons. Each handmade pair of platforms comes with 5 sets of ribbons, which allows you to have casual, office, and evening looks all from one pair of shoes. The recycled rubber bottoms makes walking in the platforms much more comfortable and you won’t have to complain about not having shoes to match your outfit this sandal season!

Now if you have a spare $750 or so for shoes (ahem), check out these gorgeous cork pumps from none other than Christian Louboutin. The designer is very focused on this renewable resource for Spring and we are more than happy to peruse eBay in the hopes of fanagling a pair. Though not so sustainable for your bank account, the hot pink stiletto may help you sustain any major fashion event in the future with ease.

This is the absolutely gorgeous cruelty-free “Desire Triton” strappy heel from Melissa. These rockabilly babies are produced in a sweatshop-free factory Sao Paulo, Brazil where the workers are paid high wages with great benefits. Melissa recycles 99.9% of factory water and waste, and all the overstock inventory is recycled into new shoes. Sadly, these still use PVC to make this little vegan guys, so make sure to tell the owner Zaha Hadid to look into more sustainable materials for next year’s line.

This whole green movement is a process, and all of us eco fashion warrior princesses need to do our part…especially when it comes to shoes! If you love a shoe line and wish it was more sustainable, go to the Contact section of their website and let them know. Your customer voice is huge, use it. We need eco pumps people!