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Earth Day 2010
Community Events
Featured Articles
Suggested Reading
Every Month is Earth Month
Our Earth, Our Formulas
We are Driven by a passion for nature, our products are created with purpose, people and the planet in mind. All of our products and ingredients contain the plants and flowers given to us by nature. We are born from nature and we must protect it for the next generation.
Our Commitment
From organic, to eco-friendly, from plant to bottle, we provide wellness solutions that are effective, time proven, and transform daily lives. We will strive and continuously look for ways to protect the environment and our wild spaces for future generations. We believe in natures’ future and will work to preserve it, one step at a time.
Earth Day 2010
 Earth Day is April 22nd, 2010. Every April, Escents donates 10% from the sales of the Earth Aromas Collection to a local, grassroots organization that focuses education and programs built around environmental initiatives. The Earth Aroma Collection features six unique blends that were inspired by the most important environmental issues facing our generation. They include Green Forest, Yellow Harvest, Red Earth, Purple Ice, Orange Sun and Blue Water.
This year, Escents is proud to announce that they will donate to the Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA). EYA is is a youth driven non-profit organization dedicated to the health of the urban environment, our planet & the well being of its people. By providing young people with meaningful experiences, in projects that benefit our communities, they support our environment socially as well as ecologically.
Green Suggestions?
If you have others ideas to make Escents a greener company, we would encourage you to Contact Us with your suggestions. We would also encourage you celebrate the earth-friendly changes you initiate and make each day!
Community Events
 Escents is proud to be participating in the 2010 Epic Sustainability Living Expo! EPIC is a solutions-based, family-oriented event, designed to educate and entertain. Today’s ethical consumer has the power to create change. Greening your life is easy - it's about doing what you can, when you can. All you need is a little education and inspiration - EPIC has lots of both! Join us for this three-day celebration of green living; and, surround yourself with truly inspirational people and environmentally innovative products. Escents will be featuring their entire collection and educating attendees about ingredients, essential oils and green tips we can all use at home.
Visit our booth at EPIC and learn how simple choices in your day-to-day life can make a significant impact on your health, your community and your environment.
Featured Articles
 How recession changed the green marketplace | By Jennifer Wells Source:www.theglobeandmail.com
What are the consequences of the evaporation of wealth - or even the perception of the evaporation of wealth? Here's one. "In the last few years, Canadians who artificially had a little bit more wealth, or a feeling of wealth, were emotionally very willing to pay a premium for green products," says Joe Manget...
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 The Great Packaging Debate | By Jacqui MacNeill Source:www.escentsblog.com
We are proud to use minimal packaging for our products. We’ve had to make some concessions including providing boxes for essential oils, aromatherapy blends and selected gifts, and we may have to design boxes for our soy jar candles in the future to be able to offer our products in different markets, but we’ll always keep...
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Suggested Reading
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Author Michael Braungart
Amazon.com Review: Paper or plastic? Neither, say William McDonough and Michael Braungart.
Why settle for the least harmful alternative when we could have
something that is better--say, edible grocery bags! In Cradle to Cradle,
the authors present a manifesto calling for a new industrial
revolution, one that would render both traditional manufacturing and
traditional environmentalism obsolete. Recycling, for instance, is
actually "downcycling," creating hybrids of biological and technical
"nutrients" which are then unrecoverable and unusable. The authors, an
architect and a chemist, want to eliminate the concept of waste
altogether, while preserving commerce and allowing for human nature.
They offer several compelling examples of corporations that are not
just doing less harm--they're actually doing some good for the
environment and their neighborhoods, and making more money in the
process. Cradle to Cradle is a refreshing change from the
intractable environmental conflicts that dominate headlines. It's a
handbook for 21st-century innovation and should be required reading for
business hotshots and environmental activists. --Therese Littleton
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
Author Paul Hawken
Amazon.com Review: Paul Hawken, the entrepreneur behind the Smith & Hawken gardening
supplies empire, is no ordinary capitalist. Drawing as much on Baba Ram
Dass and Vaclav Havel as he does on Peter Drucker and WalMart for his
case studies, Hawken is on a one-man crusade to reform our economic
system by demanding that First World businesses reduce their
consumption of energy and resources by 80 percent in the next 50 years.
As if that weren't enough, Hawken argues that business goals should be
redefined to embrace such fuzzy categories as whether the work is
aesthetically pleasing and the employees are having fun; this applies
to corporate giants and mom-and-pop operations alike. He proposes a
culture of business in which the real world, the natural world, is
allowed to flourish as well, and in which the planet's needs are
addressed. Wall Street may not be ready for Hawken's provocative brand
of environmental awareness, but this fine book is full of captivating
ideas.
The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
Author Andres R. Edwards
Andrés R. Edwards is an educator, author, media designer and
environmental systems consultant who has specialized in sustainability
topics for the past 15 years. The founder and president of EduTracks,
an exhibit design and fabrication firm specializing in green building
and sustainable education programs for parks, towns and companies, he
lives in Northern California.
The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet
Author Alicia Silverstone and Neal D. Barnard M.D.
In The Kind Diet, actress, activist, and committed
conservationist Alicia Silverstone shares the insights that encouraged
her to swear off meat and dairy forever, and outlines the spectacular
benefits of adopting a plant-based diet, from effortless weight loss to
clear skin, off-the-chart energy, and smooth digestion. She explains
how meat, fish, milk, and cheese—the very foods we’ve been taught to
regard as the cornerstone of good nutrition—are actually the culprits
behind escalating rates of disease and the cause of dire, potentially permanent damage to our ecology.
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