Fitness & Health
Buy eco-friendly workout clothes
Gaiam Activewear
Offers clothing made from soy, organic cotton, and other natural fabrics. Check out their unitards, tanks, camis, and yoga gear, too.Kavu Bambina Top
A long sleeve, women’s shirt made with 30 percent organic cotton and 70 percent bamboo, this piece is soft and comfortable. It’s got natural wicking and moisture absorption characteristics, too.Lotus Organics Exercise and Yoga Apparel
This company's garments are made with certified organic cotton, hemp, wool, alpaca, and tencel. Some are non-dyed and the dyed clothing uses either natural clay dyes or low-impact, fiber-reactive dyes.Marika Balance Organic Cotton Pleated Shimmel Shirt
This active-wear tank is made from 95 percent organic cotton, giving you lots of support and structure (it’s got a shelf-bra) while being comfortable. It’s machine washable, so easy to care for.
Buy eco-friendly yoga mats and natural yoga gear
agoy Yoga Mats
This company offers a mat made of 100 percent organic cotton handmade in India, as well as several made of TPE (Thermo Plastic Elastomer).ecoYoga Mat
Offers jute mats in many colors with grippy natural rubber undersides to keep them slipping around on the floor. They're machine washable and perfect for beginner and advanced yoga practitioners alike.Gaiam Premium Bene-Fit Yoga Mat
Their list of eco-yoga products is long, and includes cork blocks, woven yoga bags, hemp slings, PVC-free and natural rubber mats, and even cotton rugs. Choose from a wide selection of colors and sizes.Hugger-Mugger Earth Elements Mat
Made with thermal plastic elastomer (TPE), this mat is decomposable, recyclable, and toxin free.Jade Yoga Harmony Mat
The Harmony mat is made from natural rubber, a renewable resource, and comes in a variety of colors, including Purple, Black, Sedona Red, Tibetan Orange, Slate Blue, Midnight Blue and Olive Green. They also offer mats of various sizes and thicknesses.Stirlen Chi Mat Wash
This biodegradeable cleaner is a made of natural ingredients and detergent. It is designed to allow you to clean your yoga mat in a standard washing machine.Vermont Soap Organics Mat Cleaner
This hypoallergenic product uses a castile-soap based formula made from certified organic vegetable oils and botanicals. There are no synthetic chemicals.
Use reusable water bottles
Guyot Designs Firefly Water Bottle Lantern
If you already have a plastic water bottle, consider the Firefly: it's unique design let's any standard wide-mouth water bottle double as a lantern. The patented lid design contains an integrated LED light in a separate sealed compartment which spreads a warm glow throughout the bottle.Guyot Designs stainless steel water bottles
Each stainless steel bottle Guyot sells through their website carries 100 pounds of greenhouse gas emission reductions—they're not just carbon neutral, they’re carbon negative! Choose from Standard, Commuter, and Backpacker models, which work with standard wide-mouth water purifiers.Klean Kanteen stainless steel refillable bottles
Klean Kanteen offers stainless steel refillable bottles, available through athletic/outdoor supply stores and online vendors.New Wave Enviro stainless steel and cornstarch plastic refillable bottles
New Wave Enviro offers stainless steel refillable bottles, as well as bottles made from corn-based bio-plastic. The bio-plastic bottles are good for up to 90 uses, degrade in 80 days if composted, and come equipped with a carbon-based water filter to remove chlorine and contaminants from plain old tap water.Sigg aluminum refillable bottles
Sigg sells aluminum bottles lined with a water-based, nontoxic lining. Sigg bottles are available in the US through athletic/outdoor supply stores and online distributors.
Walk or ride your bike
Alchemy Goods Urban Bag
Hip, roomy messenger bag with an exterior made of 100 percent waterproof recycled inner tubes from Seattle bike shops and strap made from a recycled seatbelt. Multiple interior pockets with space to fit laptops with up to 17" screens.Blackburn Quadrant and Mars 3.0 Combo Bicycle Light Set
The set includes a front light with four super-bright white LEDs and rear light with seven super-bright red LEDs, both in tough, water-resistant cases. Front light runs on four AA batteries for 110 hours in steady mode, or 300 hours in flash mode while the back light runs on two AAA batteries for up to 50 hours in steady mode, or 150 hours in flash mode.Green Earth Office Supply Recycled Rubber Backpack
The material for these backpacks comes from 100 percent post-consumer recycled rubber (Florida tires). They're fully lined, have a convertible strap, outer magnetic snap pocket and inner zipper pocket. They come in black, peanut or a black/peanut color combination.Hemp Sisters Deluxe Hemp Backpack with Laptop Storage
Heavy duty hemp backpack with triple-stitched construction for durability and strength with padding on the back, bottom and straps for your comfort. It has six zippered compartments, nine pockets, twin cargo straps, bottle pockets on each side and room to securely hold your laptop.Hokey Spokes light blades
Hokey Spokes puts the glitz into safety lighting with transparent "blades" that attach to your bicycle spokes. They explain their product by saying, "as these blades spin during riding, a computer inside the blades modulates the internal LED lights so that design images and custom text appear."Planet Bike Beamer 3 LED Headlight
This headlight can be quickly mounted or removed without tools and contains three bright LEDs which operate in flashing or steady mode. The light runs up to 100 hours on the included two AA batteries.Planet Bike Blinky Safety Set
Super bright LEDs will clip to almost anything and provide flashing or steady visibility for up to one mile. Runs for up to 100 hours on the included CR2032 watch battery.Rawganique Euro-style Hemp Backpack
They have five hemp backpacks to choose from; all are made from certified organic hemp, processed without chemicals or pesticides. The HBP3 Zip Backpack is their mid-priced, mid-sized model.Reelight SL100 Bicycle Safety Light
The set includes one white front-facing and one red back-facing light that uses LED technology and high-power neodymium magnets (non-friction) in an innovative self-contained electrical system. Lights flash on and off as you pedal and stop when the bike stops.Voltaic Systems Solar Backpack
The Voltaic Backpack has three light weight, waterproof solar panels that can charge up your cell phones, sat phones, PDAs, GPSs, iPods and cameras (not laptops) while you bike or walk. When not in the sun, the battery can be charged using the AC travel charger or DC car charger.
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