Palm a Pom Tea...you keep the glass!

I was in need of a refreshing drink after class this past week due to the weather still being warm, despite the fact that we're about to enter into November. Anyways, back to my refreshing drink. I decided to pick up a Pom Wonderful Tea drink, but wondered why it was $3.25. I thought to myself, 'hmm, this drink is a little on the pricey side.' After talking with a friend about my purchase and checking out the Pom Web site, I was informed that the price was as is because the glass in which it comes in is reusable. So, besides coming in a beautifully packed glass container with a lid, the glass is yours to keep and refurbish later with your drink of choice. And what better way to compliment your kitchen cabinets, counter, desk, or dining table, than with recycled glasses?


Pom Wonderful drinks are made out of pomegranate fruit, which is historically one the earliest fruits cultivated on earth. Consuming pomegranate fruit has a number of health benefits including the prevention and slowing of cancer growth due to the fruits carrying of antioxidants. Products of Pom Wonderful includes their tea (which was very tasty-- I had the Peach Passion White Tea), juice and even pomegranate pills, for those with less time to enjoy the liquid form of the pomegranate fruit. After doing some research on the pomegranate fruit and its contribution to a better, healthy lifestyle, it also contributes to the green world of conserving products. And in this case, offering buyers a glass to keep and reuse.

Walking Barefoot Never Felt So Good: Earth Weave Carpet Mills, Inc.

Like walking barefoot outdoors? Earth Weave Carpet Mills, Inc. enables you to do just that--but indoors on all-natural, non-toxic carpeting.

"We're a very unique product," Kent Kelley, general manager of Earth Weave, said.

Based in Dalton, GA and as the only manufacturer in North America that produces 100 percent, non-toxic carpeting, Earth Weave has been in business for 12 years and obtains distributors all over the country, Kelley said.

Earth Weave's Bio-Floor Collection includes carpets that are biodegradable, are made with 100 percent all-natural wool, use natural pigmented wool fibers instead of chemical dyes for color and uses hemp and cotton as a base instead of polypropylene which keeps the wool yarn in place. Even the adhesive to combine all elements of the Bio-Floor carpets together is 100 percent natural and biodegradable. The adhesive is made from rubber trees. Jute is also used as a backing on the carpets, which comes from "a hardy earth friendly fiber producing plant," according to the Earth Weave Web site.

The photo below shows the different layers of Earth Weave's Bio-Floor carpeting. Photo Courtesy of www.earthweave.com.


Carpeting with wool has many added benefits, but costs more to manufacture, Kelley said.

"Wool is sustainable, and when you put it under a microscope, you'll see that wool has scales on it and many manufacturers try to mimic wool the non-natural way," he said. "Though it costs more to produce wool carpeting the right way and profit margins are thinner, wool is resilient and we believe in what we're doing by contributing to peoples health and this great country."

Earth Weave even maintains nature in the naming of their different carpet styles.

"All styles are named from mountain ranges," Kelley said. "Even the colors of the carpet is naturally named, indicative of nature, for example our Pyrenees style comes in a wheat color."

The photo below is a carpet sample of the Pyrenees style in a wheat color. Photo Courtesy of www.earthweave.com.


Below are carpet samples of the McKinley style in snowfield (top) and the Dolomite style in a granite color (bottom). Photo's Courtesy of www.earthweave.com.












Working with Earth Weave is Kelley's first opportunity to work in manufacturing he said.

"There are more people everyday that understand benefits of natural things, rather than synthetic materials," he said. "We've enjoyed 12 years of success and we love it."