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Aren’t these gorgeous? They look like frozen hearts sitting on glass pedestals.

They are early inhabitants of an area near Antarctica that has been disturbed by an iceberg and are called tunicates. “Australia’s Aurora Australis and collaborating vessels L’Astrolabe (France) and Umitaka Maru (Japan) have returned from the Southern Ocean, their decks overflowing with a vast array of ocean life including a number of previously unknown species collected from the cold waters near the East Antarctic land mass.”

Read the entire article and view all the pictures here.

Isn’t this beautiful. It is the inside of a little crooked house. All angles, beautiful lighting and architectural detail, just a few of my favorite things. View the rest of the home at TNA.

As part of the greening up of my home, I have started switching to green products as I run out of their environmentally unfriendly counterparts. I have made several switches lately and am pretty happy and feeling the good karma of doing good for the Earth.

I think the turning point for me was when I finished watching the Planet Earth Series on DVD, which are gorgeous and amazing. At the end, there is a small documentary about protecting out Earth and the effects of the things we use everyday on the environment. Really, I had no idea what was going on. There was a total disconnect between the chemicals I use everyday and the way they wash out of my house, into rivers and finally into the oceans.

So, here are my latest attempts at saving the world.

I just switched to Wintree Laundry Deteregent, which you can get at Costco. It cleans my clothes spectacularly and smells like Heaven on a sunny day. I like it more than any other laundry detergent I have used, and I cannot keep my face out of the laundry while I am folding it.

I also recently found CleanWell via Ohdeedoh. CleanWell is an all-natural hand sanitizer with Ingenium – a formulation of essential herb plant oils that is renewable. There’s no alcohol in CleanWell but it kills 99.99% of germs naturally. It’s now a staple in our diaper bag – a squirt or two after a round on the playground when no soap and water is in sight. We like that CleanWell doesn’t make your skin feel dry and it has a great citrus herb scent. You can get it at Target. It also appeals to the little designer that lives inside of me, with its visually simple layout and package design.

As I try out other products I will let you know what I think.