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what iVillage.com
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Eco-friendly
fashion show to steal the spotlight
by Renee Gusching, 8/18/2007
Read
Story
Clothing from Jennifer Harris Arcata store, Hempsown,
will be modeled during the Organic Planet Festivals fashion
show. Participating retailers also include Blue Cloud, Children
of the Green Earth, Simple Shoes, Mystery School Clothing Inc.,
Solutions, Jarac Rogovima, Belove and Taraluna. Tyson
Ritter/The Eureka Reporter
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Yogi
Times Business - August 2007
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Canvas
Magazine - June 2007
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Yogi
Times - May 2007
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Send
an Eco-Valentine and Plant a Tree for FREE! with Dianovo.com
February 1, 2007
NEWS FACTS
- This
Valentine's, Dianovo.com
invites you to show the Earth how much you love her, by sending
an Eco-Valentine and planting a tree for FREE! From now until
midnight on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2007, Dianovo.com
will plant a tree for every Eco-Valentine sent through the site
that results in a new member.
- More
than 1 billion Valentine's greeting cards are sent each year.
Most made from virgin trees rather than recycled fibers. By
sending Eco-Valentines, you not only save trees, you also plant
new ones! And, it doesn't cost you a cent.
- The
tab for all of this is being picked up by Dianovo, Inc. and
the Dianovo Foundation. Their way of showing their love for
Mother Earth this Valentine's.
- The
member who sends the most Eco-Valentines and plants the most
trees, will receive a special Valentine's gift of one bottle
of perfume of his/her choice worth $185 from the luxury botanical
perfume house, Strange Invisible Perfumes.
- The
member who sends the second most, will receive a special Valentine's
gift of a $100 gift certificate from TARALUNA, a beautiful
source for fair trade and organic goods.
- Each
tree planted will sequester around 1.33 tons of CO2 over the
next 70 to 100 years.
- These
trees will be planted in areas in Northern California that have
been deforested by wildfires in recent years.
- According
to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection,
almost 1 million acres of trees have been lost in the last 5
years alone to forest fires in California.
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Better
Nutrition
December 2006
Gifts that give back
Lisa Turner
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Tired
of buying the same gifts year after year - you know, those scented
candles or fuzzy slippers? This year, go shopping for presents
that help people all over the world. You've decked the halls,
hung the mistletoe, lit the menorah and trimmed the tree. But
what have you done to create a deeper connection to the true spirit
of the holidays? If you're looking for an easy way to remember
the reason for the season, start with your holiday purchases.
This
year, make your dollars count, and support someone besides the
chain clothing and toy stores at your local shopping mall. These
nine buys may change the world - or at least someone's life.
Taraluna
- Veggie and Hat Set
What to get the baby who has everything? Try a carrot or tomato
shaped hat with a matching toy from Taraluna. Made from organic
cotton grown on a Fair Trade farm in Egypt, the hats and veggies
are toxin and pesticide free. Also featured: organic cotton sleeping
dolls ($10.00), bamboo fiber baby washcloths (set of four for
$10.00) and organic cotton veggies and create kids' toy ($26.00).
Hat set $13.50; taraluna.com.
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BabyGadget
12/12/2006
Mercedes, if you remember had a tag line a while back that went
something like: "It's not about how much something costs, but
rather, how much it's worth. So don't let the door hit you on your
five-figure-making butt on the way out of our dealership".
Okay, I made the last part up, but you know that was implied.
Let's keep that in mind as you read this post. Of course, now I've
gone and sabotaged my write-up by telling you not to think about
the price. How much could a step stool cost? How about $300? Right,
that's what I said. And I normally don't use those words either.
But on the other hand, this may be one of those purchases where
it's really more about making a statement than just buying an object.
The store, Taraluna is a woman owned, small business that seems
extremely environmentally and socially conscious. All their products,
including the step stool is made from organic, responsibly-forested,
non-toxic material using fair-waged labor. And I must admit that
the stools are beautifully crafted and painted. So ultimately, it's
one of those deals where you not only buy something that looks great,
but also makes you feel great. Besides, you know what they say:
"if you gotta ask."
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New
Haven Register
These gifts put smiles on faces around the world
Rosemary Chieppo
12/14/2006
Each
year, millions of Americans face holiday shopping with fear and
anxiety. For many, today's holiday culture encourages everyone
to focus on getting lots of stuff. But many religious traditions
instruct us that true joy and purpose come from focusing on the
needs of others. So why not combine the two by picking the perfect
present AND helping a worthy cause?
Taraluna,
taraluna.com, (877) 325-9129, carries environmentally friendly,
socially responsible gifts from around the world - jewelry, handcrafts,
women's accessories and items for baby, bath, home and garden.
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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Lighting Up is Good for You
"Holiday Lights Campaign" encourages giving CFL bulbs
this holiday season.
(Eureka, CA.) Lighting up is good for you, your pocketbook and
the planet. How you ask? Simple, all you have to do is make the
switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs which are better for
the environment, save money and last longer than incandescent
bulbs. If every American changed just one incandescent bulb to
a CFL bulb, enough energy would be saved to light 2.5 million
homes according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Taraluna
- Fair Trade, Organic & Green Gifts kicks off its "Holiday
Lights Campaign" by giving away an 18 watt CFL bulb (equivalent
to a 75 watt incandescent bulb) with every $50.00 purchase from
their online store and selling the bulbs for $3.00 each. Its goal
is to encourage giving the gift of light by adding Energy Star
certified CFL bulbs to holiday gift lists for friends, family
and employees. Read
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Taraluna
in Blogland
Please
check our our recent blog blurbs
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City
Hippy
Jen's
Green Journal
Tree
Hugger
HUGG
We
love being Hugged!
Stylehive
Ideal
Bite Wind Chimes
Ideal
Bite Baby Toys
Musings
of an Eco-Entrepreneur Shea Gunther
LA
Green Living
babygadget
This
Next
spa bucket
This
Next totes
This Next more...
Madame
Sosostris
PSD
Blog
The
Green Adventure
Mommies
with Style
The
Worsted Witch
The
Ashram
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Tyson
Ritter/The Eureka Reporter
Taraluna owner Penny Schafer stands in front of her booth during
the Old Town Fourth of July fair last week. Schafer sees events
like this as an opportunity to attract local customers to her
business, which operates via a Web site.
The
Eureka Reporter - Business
Summer
festivals provide exposure for small businesses
by Courtney Hunt-Munther, 7/10/2006 link
to article
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mood at the Eureka Main Street Fourth of July fair in Old Town last
week was light. Bubbles floated down the streets as friends and
families casually strolled Second Street, taking in the live music
and specialty food. Vendors took advantage of the festivities by
lining the streets with colorful booths, offering wares of every
size and shape.
Although
most fairgoers may see the summer events as a time to relax and
enjoy nice weather, many small business owners see them as opportunities
to get acquainted with the public, and better yet, for the public
to become acquainted with them.
Among
the many booths at Old Towns Independence Day celebration
last week was one in particular that greatly benefits from summer
fairs. Local fair-trade gift store Taraluna operates via a Web
site (www.taraluna.com) and occupies no physical space locally.
Owner
Penny Schafer jumps on opportunities like the Fourth of July fair
and Fortunas AutoXpo to get her business name out
in the community. Through her Web site, she sells merchandise
to customers in Japan, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Canada
and many places throughout the United States, but she doesnt
sell to many customers locally.
With
the Internet, I can sell to people all over the world but I would
like to get local people, too, she said. My smallest
(retail) component is Humboldt County, thats why Im
trying to get out there.
Schafer
opened Taraluna last May in hope of creating a business she could
feel good about. Everything Taraluna carries is fair
trade, organic or green.
While
she is looking to open a small shop on the North Coast in the
near future, Schafer said she utilizes the local fairs to expose
her business to the community.
For
me to get out and share my wares, its a really good opportunity,
Schafer added.
Right
now, Schafer is working to get her merchandise into local retail
shops and will have products at Cloud Nine Salon in Eureka soon.
Taraluna will also have a booth at the Fortuna AutoXpo and Annie
and Mary Days in Blue Lake later this month, as well as at the
Organic Planet festival in Halvorsen Park.
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Taraluna
as seen on All
Organic Links.
Site
of the Week - March 6-13, 2006
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KTEH
TV - San Francisco PBS Holiday Auction
Taraluna
donated this beautiful All Organic Baby Basket to KTEH TV Holiday
Auction.
November 1st, 2005
This beautiful gift basket is filled with safe, organic, natural
and sustainable products for your little bundle of joy or to give
as a gift. Included are Bamboo Baby socks and blanket - soft and
comfy, bamboo is naturally anti-microbial and thermal regulating.
We've added a number of Fair Trade organic Egyptian cotton products
from Under the Nile, a long sleeved "Veggin' Out" lap
shoulder tee with matching hat, bib and two organic vegetable
toys - only natural dyes used so they are safe for baby. We've
also included Angel Baby Lotion, all natural and organic for tender
skin, and an "Organic Baby" lap shoulder tee made from
organic cotton - all bundled together in a reusable fair trade
bamboo basket with a bright red bow!
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Hello.
I won the high bid at the KTEH auction in November 2005 for your
gift basket of baby items. We are SO happy with everything you
sent! I've never considered bamboo clothing before and it is wonderfully
soft. Our little guy just loves the toy veggies (especially the
green bean) too.
Thank
you so much for the generous donation to KTEH. I always find great
new things at their auction and couldn't be happier winning the
bid for your donated gift. I'm happy to have discovered your products
through them & will definitely visit your website for future
purchases. It's been a pleasure dealing with your business.
Thank
you,
- Lynn M.
San Francisco, CA
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BUST
Editors Pick
The
Girl Wide Web
Sizzling New Links:
Taraluna: Fair Trade, Organic and Green Gifts - Environmentally
friendly and socially responsible fair trade, organic or otherwise
green gifts, jewelry, bath & spa, home & garden, handcrafts,
women's accessories and baby products from the U.S. and around
the world. We offer an alternative to mass produced, chemically
infused, and sweatshop labor products. We have brought together
some of the best there is to offer in fair trade gifts and natural
products. If you are a conscious consumer looking for more, welcome
to our store. (Added: 2005-10-13)
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Fair
Trade Alliance July 2005 Newsletter
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Fair
Trade Alliance Member Profiles
Members of Co-op America's Fair Trade Alliance represent a diversity
of workplaces, schools, faith congregations,
businesses, and community groups all united by a passion for Fair
Trade. Each month, we'll run one or more profiles of Fair Trade
Alliance members and tell you about what they are doing in their
communities to promote Fair Trade.
Taraluna
Penny Schafer, the owner and founder of Taraluna, believes strongly
in the word "fair." After spending many years in job
environments that were not conducive to fair principles, she has
gone with her instinct and opened her own company committed to
principles of fairness for all. Penny believes that there is no
place for intolerance and bigotry in our world. Participating
in the Fair Trade system is a way for her to promote her values.
Taraluna is an online company with the mission "to offer
alternative choices in products based on values of fair compensation
to artisans, promotion of healthy and safe working environments
and social and environmental responsibility." The website
acts as an ordering form for Fair Trade, organic, and green gifts.
You can find anything from accessories, cosmetics, and functional
art to organic baby products, natural spa products, and candles.
Each product is either from a member of the Fair Trade Federation
or from Co-op America's National Green Pages. Taraluna is designed
to help the consumer know that the purchases they are making are
sustainable and ensuring that they truly are changing the world
"one small purchase at a time."
The business was launched May 10, 2005 and has already begun to
thrive. Check out the website to learn more about Taraluna and
to make your next Fair Trade purchase! To visit Taraluna online
go to www.taraluna.com
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Sep
2003, In Style, p.415
How
Beautiful People Get That Way
"Coffee Shop Sparkling Julia Roberts has a personality that
certainly isn't in need of perking up. But when her skin requires
a jolt, she smoothes on Stephka BODYCOFFEE
Hydrating Balm ($10; at bodycoffee.com or 415-648-6833). The potent
brew is infused with hemp-seed oil, to help skin retain moisture,
and coffee extract, believed to be an effective antioxidant (who
knew?). Of course, it's totally habit-forming.
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May
2004, Palm Beach Illustrated, p.24
Comfort Food
What do coffee, cornmeal and soy milk have in common? They're good
for you - or at least for your skin, according to the Four Seasons
Resort Palm Beach.
The
hotel's spa recently launched three skin-nourishing treatments,
featuring wholesome, edible ingredients. The BODYCOFFEE
Scrub is a stimulating concoction of Arabica coffee, peppermint,
orange, rosemary and Dead Sea salts, which awaken tired muscles...
Guaranteed to leave you feeling delicious. (561-582-2800, www.fourseasons.com)
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Aug
2004, Real Simple, p.155
Global Beauty: Russian Coffee Body Smoother
The
Ritual:
In
some Russian spas, women use wet coffee grounds as a body scrub.
They massage the grounds onto moist skin to slough off flaky,
dry layers and leave the skin softer.
Why
It Works: "Coffee grounds are a gentle exfoliant," Downie
says. "Since they aren't overly abrasive, it's a nice way
of removing dry skin on the body." The caffeine in the coffee
can temporarily give the skin a toned appearance and quell minor
skin irritations.
To
Try It At Home: If reusing coffee grounds is not your idea of
smart recycling, rub BODYCOFFEE
Invigorating Body Polish ($35, www.bodycoffee.com) on your skin.
It contains arabica coffee and Dead Sea salt.
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Aug
2004, Healing Lifestyles & Spas, p.62
Good
Enough To Eat
Coffee & Tea
Its
fragrant aroma gets many of us out of bed each morning, but thanks
to the healing properties of this flowering plant, we can now
enjoy coffee's benefits beyond the cup. With a pH equal to that
of our skin, coffee acts as a balancing astringent. Coarse ground
beans, which serve as a natural exfoliant, are showing up in scrubs
with milk and sugar as 'body lattes'. Additionally, coffee is
a free radical scanvenger, helping to neutralize oxidation reactions
in the skin, which are responsible for conditions like acne and
eczema. Urban Nirvana's Body Buzz is a milk and coffee-based body
scrub, followed by a detoxifying coffee-mud wrap, and finished
with an application of vanilla bean body lotion. At home, try
BODYCOFFEE's
extensive line of coffee-based products, including a hydrating
body balm and an invigorating body polish....
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Mar
2003, Spa Magazine, p.44
The Magic Bean
Try
coffee on your body for beautiful skin.
You
would think that coffee is a bad word in spas, where cucumber-infused
water and steaming cups of herbal tea reign. But that notion is
changing as the beauty business wakes up to the healthy side of
java.
"It's
an astringent, antioxidant, and a deodorant," says Stephanie
Profitt, a founder of BODYCOFFEE,
a recent entry in the spa skincare and treatment arena. "It
cleanses, moisturizes, and protects the skin from the dulling
and damaging effects of environmental toxins, and it stimulates
micro-cellular circulation, which can diminish the appearance
of cellulite." And, according to a recent study at Rutgers
University, topically applied caffeine may even help protect against
skin cancer.
Profitt
discovered the benefits of coffee while working in Moscow in 1996,
where she made regular visits to the banya - traditional Russian
spa. There, spa-goers rubbed coffee grounds on their bodies as
part of a stimulating exfoliation. "It was so amazing, I
wondered why we didn't use it topically here in the U.S."
Now
we do. Spas like Ten Thousand Waves in Santa Fe, New Mexico, The
Day Spa at Ojai, California, and Burke Williams Day Spas in Los
Angeles all use BODYCOFFEE
products in their treatments.
Complementary
natural ingredients boost the bean's beautifying power. Invigorating
Body Polish enlists Dead Sea salts with magnesium and potassium
to further detoxify the skin, while the coffee grounds work on
decreasing the appearance of cellulite. Hydrating Body Balm uses
soybean and hemp seed oils to delivery moisture plus vitamin E
and coffee extract to act as antioxidants. But the Moisturizing
Body Lotion is our favorite: Shea butter and aloe vera refresh
and hydrate, while extract of coffee flower subtly scents the
skin with a delicate jasminelike fragrance.
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Delicious
living
March 2006
Beauty
Kit Overhaul
By Kelli Rosen
Most of us appreciate soft skin, polished nails, and a pleasant
body odor. But how many of us actually think about what's in the
beauty products we use? And if we knew the effects of these chemicals,
would we continue slathering them on our bodies? Here, natural
health experts weigh in on which ingredients to avoid-and offer
natural alternatives.
Nail polish
Why ditch it?
Although colored nails may look pretty, conventional nail polishes
contain dibutyl phthalates, strong chemicals that help polishes
stay blended and dry evenly. Phthalates may enter your body either
through inhalation or the porous surface of the nail. "As
endocrine disruptors, they have the ability to upset hormonal
balance," says Keri Marshall, MS, ND, a naturopath in Dover,
New Hampshire, and author of User's Guide to Protein and Amino
Acids (Basic Health, 2005). In particular, pregnant women should
avoid products that contain phthalates, according to Marshall,
because they can adversely affect the reproductive system of a
developing male embryo (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2005,
vol. 113, no. 8).
Also, nail polishes may contain other harmful solvents, such as
toluene and formaldehyde. Even if you don't look at the ingredient
list, you may recognize these notorious two by their smell. "They
give polishes that overwhelming scent that can make you feel fuzzy
headed," Marshall says. Toluene is possibly toxic to the
reproductive system, and formaldehyde is a known carcinogen.
Natural alternatives
Peacekeeper
Cause-metics Paint Me Luminous. A sparkly silver nail
polish made without toluene, formaldehyde, or phthalates.
Unlike alternative polishes of the past, this brand, which includes
eight delicate shades but no deep reds or browns, applies evenly
and is surprisingly durable. Even better: All after-tax profits
help support women's health and human rights advocacy causes.
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marie
claire
July 2002
Mindful
Makeup
Jody
Weiss, Creator of PeaceKeeper,
a new cosmetics line available at select department stores,
believes that makeup can, in fact, change the world. All of
the profits from sales of her nail polishes and lipsticks go
to womens health-advocacy and human-rights issues.
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"O"
Do
Good,
Look Good
One (slightly selfish) reason we love beauty companies that
donate a portion of their profits to charity: we feel prettier
knowing that someone else benefits from our purchase. So it's
no wonder that when we tried PeaceKeeper
Cause-Metics we felt positively radiant. Not only are the nail
paints ($12.00), Lip
Paints ($16.50), and Lip
Glosses ($16.50) gorgeous, but all profits, after taxes,
support women's health advocacy and human rights issues.
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New
York Times Magazine
APPEARANCES; Love! Valor! Lipstick!
By
Mary Tannen
Published:
April 14, 2002,
Remember
when makeup was vain and frivolous? When, to establish a character
in a movie as nasty and self-involved, you showed her painting
her nails? I realized how much had changed when I saw the movie
''Kandahar,'' filmed in Taliban-dominated Afghanistan. There is
a scene in which peasant women wrapped in burkas furtively scramble
to put polish on their nails and snatch up lipstick to apply beneath
their veils. Shazam! Makeup transformed into a symbol of freedom
of expression and the liberation of women -- values held dear
by the Western world.
Not
long afterward, I was invited to the debut of a new cosmetics
company called Peacekeepers
held at a hotel hard by the United Nations. The location was chosen
to underline the message that all of Peacekeeper's
profits will be donated to causes that benefit women. While we
were eating our salads, the founder, Jody Weiss, an energetic
woman in her mid-40's, explained that her motives for throwing
her own time and money into this business were unabashedly idealistic.
''I'd love to give away a billion dollars,'' she said. Furthermore,
her lipsticks and nail polishes are meant to be teaching tools
dedicated to ending emotional abuse and resolving conflicts without
violence. Shades are named Paint Me Wise and Paint Me Compassionate.
Customers are encouraged to use makeup not for approval from others
but to celebrate their own beauty.
Weiss,
whose mother was a fashion designer and an anti-Vietnam War advocate,
initially explored the possibilities of going into the fashion
or food industry but settled on makeup because ''it's a product
that women love.'' The power of makeup was brought home to her
a few years ago when she landed in New Delhi in a tense political
climate. She was going through customs when the female agent pushed
her into a little room, closed the door, dumped the contents of
Weiss's handbag on the desk, grabbed a bottle of polish, hurriedly
painted her own nails, then let Weiss go without a word. (...)
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