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You head off to the local market with your grocery list in hand...and then you get there and realize you forgot your bags reusable bags! It's happened to all of us and darn, isn't it so frustrating? Not to mention that so many stores give us money back now if we bring our reusable bags. It would be so much easier if we had a little reminder as we walked out the door, which is exactly why we need these cute DFTB tags.

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Now here’s something happy for rainy days: the Spud Raincoat, made from potatoes and designed by the guys from Good for Environment! Under the brand name Equilicuá, they make thought provoking products such as the Econo, a water saving device for potted plants. The Spud Raincoat is for times when plenty of water is falling from the sky, and will definitely cheer you up on a grey day. The coat educates every by-passer on bioplastics by telling them “I was a potato”. And indeed, this waterproof coat is made entirely of bioplastic derived from potato starch and other natural resources, which makes it a 100% biodegradable and compostable product. And to give it the final touch at the end of its product life, the coat has integrated seeds so that plants grow out of it once it is returned to the earth!

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Designer Joan Nadal took on the challenge to re-design one of the most common everyday objects: the humble clothes hanger. A small object with a large environmental footprint if we consider that of the 8 billion polystyrene or polycarbonate hangers manufactured per year, only 15% are recycled. That is enough to fill the Empire State Building 4 times! The solution: make recyclable hanger from just one material, and if you can, recycle something along the way. BoB Hanger does exactly that: it’s made from recycled cardboard and needs two reused bottles to function.

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Today's TreeHugger Deal comes to you from ReadyMade Magazine. We’ve covered them several times over the years (see further reading links after the fold) because we think it’s a great reference that will be sure to enlighten you, entertain you, and inspire you to give your space the look and feel of you. Whether it’s a big space or small, or whether you live in a city or suburb - your place will be a better place with ReadyMade. And because the projects you make with ReadyMade will have you rethinking, re-using, and reinventing uses for objects and materials that might otherwise be discarded the planet will be a better place with ReadyMade too!

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Today's TreeHugger Deal comes to you from San Francisco-based Night+Day Guides. The Night+Day, Cool Cities Series is the platinum (and green!) standard for sophisticated urbanista travelers. Printed on high quality recycled paper and containing the most current information available, these guides are always on the cutting edge with free downloadable updates. The Night+Day, Cool Cities Series includes: Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Chicago, D.C., Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Shanghai/ Beijing, Sydney/Melbourne, and Toronto.

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Are you fed up with having to waste tin foil or plastic food bags to wrap your sandwiches? Or you had enough of carrying bulky plastic containers to get your snacks to work? Well, BOC’N ROLL, a Spanish design by MarcaDiferencia, (VERY similar to Wrap-N-Mat...) seems to be the solution. It is a reusable food wrapper, meant to pack up snacks like sandwiches, fruit or biscuits and take them to work, school or on a trip without leaving any waste behind. See video and more information after the jump.

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This week’s TreeHugger Deals comes to you from The Groovy Mind, a company that’s known for their groooovy, gourmet gifts. Each is deliciously organic, fairly traded and seasonally harvested and includes coffee (one of our faves), tea, cookies and corn chips, to name a few. The Organic Meltdown chocolate is some of the best we’ve tasted (we love the “one bar saves one tree” campaign), while the Metro Sensual Spa Box…we’ll leave it at that. Even the most discriminating treehuggers will lose their collective groovy minds over these one-of-a-kind green gifts. They are delivered in a hip, sustainable gift box is wrapped in hand stamped paper and shipped in a groovy literary box—a perfect size for re-use to store small collectibles, magazines or manuscripts.

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If you’ve got a young child or a Pre-K classroom near you that could benefit from a cute book that helps even the smallest child consider simple ways that they can help to take better care of our world then there’s a good chance this book is just what you’re looking for. Reminding them in gentle ways of the little things they can do to help the earth like turning off the water when they’re busy brushing their teeth, remembering to use both sides of the paper when drawing a picture, or planting seeds and watching them grow.