Earth Day is definitely one of my favourite holidays of the year. I think it also has to do with the fact that when April 22nd rolls around it also means that  warmer days are upon us… well except maybe this year. Nevertheless, it’s a day where I like to take stock of what I’m doing to protect the environment and what else I could do because to me Earth Day includes the 264 other days too (you can read and watch another interview I did on CTV about Earth Day here).

Today on A Morning News Ottawa, was a very special show focused on Earth Day and Easter (since this year the two holidays share the spotlight) and it was an honour to be a part of it as talking about eco-friendly locally-made products is by far one of my favourite conversation topics!

I did 2 segments with the lovely Lianne Laing. The first included reusable shopping and produce bags sold by Eco-Handbags.ca, a wide assortment of natural cleaning products by Bio Spectra’s Attitude brand, premium bed linens from St.Geneve made from 100% certified organic cotton and beautifully handcrafted jewellery made from recycled silver by Jake + Cleo.

The second segment was centred more around food. We featured dried wild crafted mushrooms and Labrador Tea from Wild Gaspé Food Products, Vega’s Whole Food Health Optimizer which is plant based protein supplement powders and Vega Shake ‘n Go powders by Sequel Naturals, Almond Fresh and Ryza dairy alternatives from Earth’s Own and Kicking Horse Coffee tins made from fair trade and 100% organic coffee.

Here’s where you can learn more about these companies and products:

Attitude natural cleaning products made by Quebec-based Bio Spectra.

Attitude on Facebook
Attitude on Twitter

Serata high-end certified 100% organic cotton bed linens by British Columbia manufacturer St.Geneve

Official website

Fine eco-friendly jewellery by Manitoba’s own Jake + Cleo

Jake + Cleo on Facebook
Jake + Cleo on Twitter

Canadian online retailer of locally-made and sustainable bags Eco-Handbags.ca

Eco-Handbags.ca on Facebook
Eco-Handbags.ca on Twitter

British-Columbia based Sequel Naturals’ Vega brand

Vega onFacebook
Vega on Twitter

British-Columbia’ Earth’s Own – makers of Almond Fresh and Ryza

Almond Fresh on Facebook
Almond Fresh on Twitter

Ryza on Facebook
Ryza on Twitter

Quebec-based Wild Gaspé Food Products

Wild Gaspé on Facebook
Wild Gaspé on Twitter

Pride and joy of British Columbia Rockies, Kicking Horse Coffee

Kicking Horse Coffee on Facebook
Kicking Horse Coffee on Twitter

Which are your favourite locally-made eco-friendly products? What would you add? Leave a comment listing them, won’t you?