The staff at Urban Jungle specializes in helping spatially challenged city dwellers add a little green to their lives. Watch for demos on terrarium making, vegetable gardening, and tree care.
Urban Jungle, 1526 East Passyunk Avenue (215-952-0811 or urbanjunglephila.com).
Check out Bario-Neal’s collection of reclaimed precious metal beauties.
Bario-Neal, 700 South 6th Street (215-454-2164 or bario-neal.com).
Get ecofriendly skin care, hair care, and waxing at this sleek Old City beauty spot. While you’re there, stock up on organic products from the boutique.
Moko Spa, 55 North 3rd Street (215-922-6656 or mokobeauty.com).
At Good Karma Cafe, the coffee is fair trade, the cream’s from Lancaster, and the sweets are from local vendors like Gilda’s Biscotti and Better Together Brownies.
Good Karma Cafe, 331 South 22nd Street (215-546-1479); 928-930 Pine Street (267-519-8860 or thegoodkarmacafe.com).
With Latin music playing softly in the background and a lilting Colombian accent, Tierra Mia Organic Nail Spa’s Karina Restrepo manages to make a trying task feel more like a tropical vacation. You can expect the same attention to detail she applies to her meticulous manicures, only with ecofriendly soy wax and expert trimming and tweezing techniques.
Tierra Mia Organic Nail Spa, 328 South 17th Street (215-735-7980 or tierramiaorganicnailspa.com).
Reimagine your space with the help of the ecofriendly design aficionados at Greenable.
Greenable, 820 North 4th Street (215-922-6066). For more locations, go to greenable.net.
Indulge in guilt-free bottled water from White Dog Cafe’s in-house filtering system. It comes still or bubbly in cute, reusable glass liters with porcelain stoppers.
White Dog Cafe, 3420 Sansom Street (215-386-9224 or whitedog.com).
Hold up, Buttercup. You gotta stop and smell the flowers. Check out owner Kayo Higashimura’s lush English contemporary floral arrangements at Hana & Posy. She uses flowers from farms that live up to VeriFlora standards of sustainability.
Hana & Posy, 35 North 3rd Street (215-733-0505 or hanaposy.com).
In Juju Spa’s mellow, ecominded atmosphere, you can have all your skin needs taken care of and practice the lost art of silence in your shirodhara treatment. A few doors down, there’s a corresponding salon.
Juju Spa & Organics, 728 South 4th Street (215-922-3235); Juju Salon, 713 South 4th Street (215-238-6080 or jujusalon.com).
The magnificent Carrie Collins designs and makes the ecominded bags, bike belts, and accessories in her bright, colorful shop.
Fabric Horse, 1737 East Passyunk Avenue (215-995-1026 or fabrichorse.com).
Die-hard locavores love the showroom at Mio. It’s filled with modern and sleek locally designed and produced furniture, housewares, and storage solutions.
Mio Boutique, 446 North 12th Street (215-925-9359 or mioculture.com).
When it comes to ecofriendly, it’s safe to say you’ve got one foot on the wagon. But Ali McCloud, owner of Arcadia Boutique, has both. And with her great selections, she’ll dress you head to toe in organic gear.
Arcadia Boutique, 819 North 2nd Street (215-667-8099); 265 South 20th Street (267-519-3634 or arcadiaboutique.com).
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