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Green Wedding Business

Recycled Paper: A Primer : Part 2

April 11, 2008 Green Wedding Business

Recycled paper. What does it mean, exactly? There are 3 basic kinds of commercial recycled paper. First is mill broke, or mill waste. This is just all the excess created by the papermaking and fabrication process. Next is pre-consumer waste, which is paper that goes back to the pulper, having never been sold. Third is [...]

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Recycled Paper + Eco Invitations: a Primer : Part 1

April 9, 2008 Green Wedding Business

Okay, Greenwashing is hitting the invitation market bigtime. One of the large invitation manufacturers has launched a line of eco invitations. Their hook: 30% post consumer fiber. Better than nothing, of course. What about the ink? Wastage, process? So, we figure it’s time to focus on what to look for. HARDCORE GREEN: The most eco [...]

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Greenwashing goes Main Stream Media

April 8, 2008 Green Wedding Business

We’ve been contacted by another large pay to play company. You pay them and they write an article about your product and they make the article available to Main Stream Media. (which includes all the big broadcasters and newspapers.)Pay to Play Syndication. Yikes. No vetting.  That means that that any company can pay $5,000 for an [...]

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Find Locally Grown Produce for Your Green Wedding

March 17, 2008 Green Wedding Business

This website is just fabulous for finding Farmer’s Markets and local farms for Organic faire for your green wedding or event: Local Harvest

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Ruthless Rules

February 22, 2008 Green Wedding Business

A great article by David Roberts in Fast Company, October 2007 (a bit behind on my reading, thank you treadmill!)  A lot of us, um, old players in the green space are all a bit perplexed as how to handle all the marketing ho-ha this past year or so.  Many of us paid our dues back [...]

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Lush Green Weddings

February 18, 2008 Green Wedding Business

For SoCal green weddings, consider Angelique Weddings, a local green weddings expert. Lush lush lush. This is what Green Weddings can look like:  

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Greening Your Vendors

February 5, 2008 Green Wedding Business

This may not come as a surprise, but ALL green weddings don’t take place in San Francisco or Portland. (Both cities have a sizable choice of eco event businesses.) For many areas of the country, the local green vendor options are slim, at best. Many components of a wedding must be created locally. What do [...]

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Fancy Hybrid + Alternative Fuel Rides

January 25, 2008 Green Wedding Business

Today’s Daily Candy LA features a new Taxi Service starting up. Airport service — and other scheduled transport. Maybe smooth low carbon rides for Weddings too? The company is a new launch: Econation.com Hopefully, they will offer some bio diesel converted limos in the near future.

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Pay to Play

January 2, 2008 Green Wedding Business

We’ve been contacted recently by a Green Business journal, who want to write about us, but will only write about us if we advertise with them. This is called “Pay-to-Play” and unless it is mentioned somewhere in the policies of the magazine, or blog, this practice is inherently deceptive.  A few Wedding reality shows have also contacted [...]

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Green Business Conference

November 19, 2007 Green Wedding Business

Last week, I attended the Green Business Conference in San Francisco, run by Co-op America. http://www.coopamerica.org/greenbusiness/ It was fabulous and a completely carbon nuetral. Biodiesel Bus Transportation was provided by http://www.teacherwiththebus.com/ Highly recommend this company for weddings in the Bay area! Really fun. I am going to add Jens-Peter (the owner) to our resources list [...]

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