Eco-Friendly Find: Nugaard Designs

Sooo, one of my new ideas for the upcoming new year is to discontinue my "site of the week" feature (which I haven't been doing lately anyway since we've been in gift guide land) and instead, replace it with an eco-friendly find each week, highlighting handmade items that are both stylish and good for the earth!  Instead of waiting for January, I figured it'd be nice to just start it now, so without further ado, I introduce my first Eco Friendly Find, Nugaard Designs!

The Nugaard Designs Leaf Collection is truly eco-chic!  Using actual naturally fallen leaves dipped in either sterling silver or 18k gold, you can take a piece of nature with you where ever you go and make a style conscious statement. 

The truly earth friendly part of buying a piece of this collection though is knowing that with your purchase, a tree will be planted!  Joining forces with Trees for the Future, by buying a lovely pair of earrings or a necklace, you will also be planting a tree somewhere in the world, aiding in the effort to combat our rampant deforestation- talk about a bonus!  Find the Nugaard Designs Leaf Collection at Three Lovelies and learn more about Trees for the Future while you're surfing along.

Comments

[Victoria E]

Woot for weekly eco-finds; I'm all over that :D

[Sarah]

I sort of bristle at things like this when people say they are eco-friendly. How much water and how many eco-systems were destroyed in the process of mining for the gold and silver. How much mercury was used, how much carbon and methane was put into the air in order to dig this metal from the bones of the earth. Does planting one tree really make up for all of that? It makes me wonder.

[modish]

Yeah, I thought about that when I was making this the "eco" find, but I figure that people are going to be buying gold and silver jewelry anyway, so if there's a slightly more "conscious" gold and silver jewelry to be had, that's also handmade, not mass-produced, etc, annnd taken from nature while also giving back to nature in some way (albeit perhaps slight compared to the mining aspect), than I think it is eco-friend(lier) than any gold/silver jewelry that you'd find at the mall, per se, and that makes it definitely worthy of being talked about.
-jena

[Valerie]

Oh, these are lovely! (Eco-debates aside)

[sasha]

Eco-conscious? I think you mean eco-inspired.

[modish]

Perhaps I do...
I guess I'm the only one who considers having a tree planted every time you purchase a piece of (eco-inspired) jewelry to be helpful to our earth? I happen to think Trees for the Future which is helping to re-build our forests is an "eco-consious" thing to support. but I guess I'm wrong? who needs trees anyway...

[Carlina Gavin]

It's stunning...

[Logo Design]

These designs. ohhh that's lovely.