Savvy Shopping and Saving

If eating ice cream makes you feel a little guilty and you wish you could come up with some great justification for indulging in the frozen delight, you're going to love the folks at Häagen-Dazs.
Forty percent of their flavours contain ingredients that rely on honeybee pollination, but the bees have been suffering from CCD lately, and there is no available explanation for their distress. While the continuing disappearance of honeybees could cause the loss of a disastrous amount of our food supply, it could also mean disaster for ice cream. That's why Häagen-Dazs is launching two new flavours to help save the beleaguered bees. A large lump-sum grant and a portion of the proceeds from the sales of Vanilla Honey Bee ice cream and Vanilla Honey & Granola frozen yogurt will go to geneticists, entomologists, and educators at two american universities who will be researching the cause of the bees' mysterious problem and conducting public education as to helping make their environs more bee-friendly. If you want to be sure you're buying a bee-friendly flavour, look for a bee-striped heart and the "hd loves hb" icon on the packaging. How could you possibly find any better reason to eat ice cream than taking socially conscious action to help save our endangered honeybees?


Continuing on the above theme ... "Fashion, Beauty & Lifestyle for the Eco & Socially Conscious ... with "knock your organic socks off" discounts & exclusive offers" proclaims the White Apricot website. If you're someone who takes missions like finding the latest lead-free lipstick or vegan shoes seriously, you really need to check this out. Among others, Better Botanicals body, face and hair products, and Energy Muse Jewelry are available at 20% off; while Terra Plana shoes and Edun clothing can be had for 15% off. A visit to the site will allow you to link to all kinds of others worth investigating. Some of them include White Apricot's choice of the top statement-making tees. You could outfit yourself with a new tee for each day of the week from suppliers that range from The Green Project in New Orleans and Save the Children to the Good Dog Foundation. What's not to like about a tee that's comfy for you to wear while you help change the world?
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