Looking for the perfect card? For a variety of creative card giving ideas look no further than Linden Hills Co-op and Natural Home! You’ll find many beautiful, thoughtful, and humorous choices whether looking for a specific holiday card, a birthday card or just a “thinking of you” card. And as an added bonus all of are cards are made with recyled or tree-free paper, reclaimed wood and soy inks.

Vessel Drinkware is committed to ending the use of plastic bottles one vessel at a time. The company has created stainless steel water bottles and coffee tumblers, and double-wall porcelain coffee mugs with eye-catching designs that are printed with organic, lead-free inks.

And Vessel Drinkware has partnered with The Water Project, Inc., a non-profit organization providing clean, safe drinking water to people in the developing world by building wells and water tanks.

Sunleaf Naturals, scented with 100% essential oils, are made in Waconia, Minnesota. They use all-natural ingredients, no petroleum, lead-free wicks, and lots of creativity. Sunleaf also makes all-natural dish and hand soaps, fire starters and reed diffusers—deliciously scented! On sale 15% off through February!

Love the earth, love yourself, love your Love Bottle! Love Bottle is a glass bottle with a ceramic lid for your beverage of choice. Because they are glass there is no leaching of dangerous chemicals. Also they can be used for water or juice or whatever cold beverage you choose each day!

Linden Hills Natural Home loves companies that creatively recycle and reuse materials. Minneapolis’s Wood from the Hood was started by self-described “avid recycler” Cindy Siewert and husband Rick. They collect locally harvested trees that would otherwise become mulch and make beautiful cutting boards and picture frames.

Because the cutting boards can only be mad from hard woods and most of the city trees tend to be softer, it can be hard to find reclaimed Minneapolis trees in the mix—but we invite you to stop by and take a look! Cindy and Rick do a lovely job with local wood.

SnackTAXIs are a fun way to reduce your use of plastics. Invented by a Massachusetts mom who packs over 500 lunches a year, just one of these washable, reusable, colorful bags can eliminate an average of 1,000 (!) plastic bags over it’s lifetime.

They come in two sizes, Snack and Sandwich, and a wide variety of patterns and colors (including some very pretty Pucci-esque paisleys for grown-up users), and are completely machine-washable. The Snack size is just perfect for a pile of Annie’s Cheddar Bunnies.

Check out our selection of fun colors and patterns at Linden Hills Natural Home.

You like water, right? Clean, cold, pure, thirst-quenching water?

But not out of a plastic bottle.

So get a Klean Kanteen, made from stainless steel. The company is awesome, too. We ordered some bottles from them, printed with our logo, and they gave us the most exceptionally good customer service we could hope for. The bottles were delivered in time for a big special event and they looked great.

Burnsville, Minnesota-based Prairie Rugs is a company on an “eco-mission.” Their hand-made cotton area rugs are made from recycled rags that have been washed only with biodegradable soap and no bleach, dyed with organic low-impact dyes. We offer a variety of sizes and colors and are happy to order additional sizes and colors for our customers, on request.

Weed seed free and made (in Wisconsin) entirely of recycled duck poop, cranberries, rice hulls, wood shavings, pickles and vanilla beans, Duck’s Doo Compost is surprisingly sweet smelling. You could say it’s “heaven scent”!

Duck’s Doo is an award winning soil conditioner that can be used in vegetable and flower gardens, tree and shrub plantings, and lawn seeding and sodding projects. The condition of the soil will determine how much to use.

Father Dom’s Duck’s Doo Compost is also useful for indoor gardening.

Laptop Lunches have been getting lots of buzz in the past few months. Ever since they were featured in the Star-Tribune’s “Green Holiday Gift Guide” back in December, they’ve been a steady seller at Natural Home.

These non-toxic easy-care lunch kits are a great option for kids (and grownups) that take the waste out of a portable meal.

Laptop Lunches is a California-based and mommy-owned company. Check their blog for the latest info on new products and great suggestions on how to cut waste, save money and pack healthy meals to go.