Why incorporate green wedding details? The average wedding costs almost $40,000 (WHOA!!) and weddings are a $60+ billion industry. Having a green wedding is an opportunity to make a difference by supporting companies that actively incorporate social and environmental responsibility into the way they do business. Each one of the 2.5 million weddings this year in the United States will produce 400-600 lbs of garbage. That's a lot of waste!
The
Green Bride Guide by Kate Harrison
How
to create an Earth-Friendly Wedding on Any Budget
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In
the same way that a wedding is an opportunity for you and your fiancé to
showcase your tastes, it is also a unique chance for you to showcase your values.
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Coop
items to reuse again: glasses, vases, folding chairs, tablecloths, napkins
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Black
henna is bad
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Not
all recycled papers are the same. There 2 main types of recycled paper:
pre-consumer waste paper (aka regular recycled paper) and post-consumer waste
paper (PCW). Most paper that says it is recycled is made from pre-consumer
waste paper unless otherwise indicated. Pre-consumer waste paper is leftover
paper from the manufacturing process. For example, when envelope patterns are
cut from large sheets, the leftover sheets can be turned back into pulp and
made into more paper. Although it just seems like good business practice this
is technically not recycling, and the new paper is labeled “recycled”. By
contrast, post-consumer waste paper (PCW) is made from paper that has reached
its end-use, like paper that ends up in your recycling bin and is reclaimed.
For obvious reason PCW recycled paper is preferable so when shopping for paper
try to find the stock that is made with as much PCW paper as possible
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Consider using a single
calla lilly down the aisle
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Soy,
palm, and beeswax candles are clean burning and often last longer
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Good
wood to use antique wood, recycled wood, driftwood, bamboo, okay wood to use
birch, ash, beech, cherry, elm, hickory, maple, oak, pine, spruce, sycamore,
and Sitka Spruce
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After looking thur here are my TOP choices of
the "A" organizations:
Since 1951, the Animal Welfare Institute has been dedicated to reducing animal
suffering caused by people.
The Hunger Project (THP) is a global, non-profit, strategic
organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. In Africa, South
Asia and Latin America, THP seeks to end hunger and poverty by empowering
people to lead lives of self-reliance, meet their own basic needs and build
better futures for their children.
Big Brother Big Sister, positively
impact a child for the better, forever.
Also on December 11th CNN broadcasted an amazing show about Heroes. Many tears were shed! The
top ten were selected from more than 10,000 nominations submitted online on the CNN Heroes website. These four really
touched my heart!
American Widow Project: provided support to more than 900 military
widows since 2007.
Global Soap Project: recycles partially used hotel soap to save
lives in impoverished countries.
Yayasan Bumi Sehat: Robin Lim and her team have helped
thousands of low-income women have a healthy birthing experience.
World Access Project: provided hundreds of wheelchairs to people in
rural Mexico.
thanks for sharing.
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ReplyDeleteGreat reading suggestion! I was actually watching Access Hollywood yesterday, and there was an actress on as a guest who had just gotten married...she said that she ended up with only one bag of trash by the end of the wedding - everything else she had composted, recycled, etc. It's really amazing how much we can conserve when armed with the right information!
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