Are you looking for the best eco friendly gifts for a romantic date night? Red may be considered the color of love but when it comes to Valentine’s Day you should really start thinking GREEN! From organic flowers and fair trade chocolates to romantic evenings at home, here’s how you can have a
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Can romantic gifts be good for the planet?
If you listen to the hype on TV it seems like women can only be happy if they get diamonds, flowers, and a Lexus as a symbol of their significant other’s love. Unfortunately, none of these options is really all that great for the environment.
Don’t be fooled by the over the top hype you see on TV. It is absolutely possible to have a green Valentine’s Day without sacrificing the romance. If your loved one is equally passionate about sustainability, their heart will be happy with your low carbon footprint gift ideas. Green romantic gifts make the heart AND environment happy.
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Best Eco Friendly Gifts for a Romantic Date
Romance is important in a relationship. Doing the dishes is awesome, however, wine and candlelight are important, too. Choose organic wine and candles with essential oils. Grill up some grass fed steaks and nibble on organic hummus. Small changes make a difference! Here are a few alternatives to traditional Valentine’s Day gifts and activities that you may want to consider this year.
Sustainable Chocolates:
Instead of buying a mass produced brand of chocolates from your local discount store, look for Fair Trade Certified or Organic chocolate instead. This way, you know that the cocoa beans were grown in a sustainable manner and the farmers were paid a fair price for their crops.
Or, support your local economy by finding a small chocolatier in a nearby city. Heck, go crazy and melt some artisan chocolate and have a fondue night with organic strawberries. Melted chocolate can find a whole lot of use in a romantic date night. Use your imagination!
Organic Flowers:
Traditional flowers are usually grown overseas and shipped via airplane to your local stores. Tons of pesticides are used to grow the flowers and then jet fuel is wasted to ship them to you. Give a potted plant instead or find organic flowers grown in a more sustainable manner.
Romantic Dinners:
Heading out for a restaurant dinner may sound romantic but this type of meal is really not great for the environment. Restaurant food waste is a huge problem in our country. Find a Farm to Table restaurant that supports local farmers that raise their foods in an ethical and eco friendly way.
Buy organic food at the grocery store and spend time cooking WITH your significant other! Couples that cook together, stay together! Need some easy dinner recipes to try? Check out my Blackened Shrimp Bowl Recipe.
Eco Friendly Jewelry:
There are a lot of jewelry options that are more friendly to the earth than strip mining diamonds. Choose something pretty and sparkly made from recycled metals or look for a company like Brilliant Earth that offers ethically sourced gems.
A romantic evening at home:
One of the best eco friendly gifts you can give is some personal one on one time! Sometimes, just spending a little quiet time with your significant other makes a wonderful Valentine’s Day.
Look for soy candles with natural scents, organic massage oils and bath products or lingerie made from organic cotton or another sustainable material. You may have to look a little harder to find these items but the quality is usually worth the effort! Make a homemade massage oil and you control the scents and ingredients!
Unique Eco-Friendly Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas
Sometimes we can get caught up in the hype of the holidays and not realize that we have the power to vote with every dollar we spend for a healthier planet. There is no reason that you can’t still enjoy the luxury of flowers, jewelry and delicious foods. Or, I am sharing a few sustainable yet romantic gift ideas that I found online just to inspire you!
- Packed With Purpose Gift Box Subscription: These unique gift boxes contain only items from companies that do good, give back, or otherwise have a positive affect on people and the planet.
- An Acre Of Rainforest: Yes, you can actually give the romantic eco friendly gift of rainforest acreage! Check out the Rainforest Action Network for more info.
- Art from a local artist: If you have a partner with an artistic soul, find a local artist and support their creative habit while making your home beautiful.
The best eco friendly gifts need to be chosen wisely. That way, you can reduce your carbon footprint while you nibble on your organic chocolate! Have any other eco friendly gift ideas to share?
Diane is a professional blogger and nationally certified pharmacy technician at Good Pill Pharmacy. She earned her BS in Microbiology at the University of New Hampshire and has worked in cancer research, academics, and biotechnology. Concern over the growing incidence of human disease and the birth of her children led her to begin living a more natural life. She quickly realized that the information she was learning along the way could be beneficial to many others and started blogging and freelance writing to share this knowledge with others. Learn more about her HERE.
My wife is from a farming community, and the farm-to-table restaurants are the best. We even live close to a locally owned Mexican restaurant where they grow their ingredients behind the building. Fresh ingredients make for the best romantic restaurant experience.
Fair Trade Certified and Organic chocolates get me every time! Plus, I really do like the taste better because they seem to have some of the best dark chocolates!
Love the idea behind these gifts!! Even better that they are carbon footprint reduction!
These are all such great ideas! I can’t wait to try some of them with the hubby! Thanks for the motivation.