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I love this – tea and the environment in one post!
On one of the walls in our kitchen, I have an antique “hanging shelf” which actually includes 4 shelves. It’s filled with different boxes and canisters of tea:
- Green tea – delicious and filled with antioxidants
- White tea – also filled with antioxidants, white tea’s a little more subtle than green. Celestial Seasonings Perfectly Pear White Tea is especially good.
- Celestial Seasonings Country Peach Passion – as wonderful iced as it is hot.
- Earl Grey Tea – This is probably my favorite black tea. It’s the tea Starbucks uses for their addictive drink, London Fog. When Starbucks is closed, I heat up a little skim milk, whisk it until it’s kind of foamy, and add it to a cup of freshly brewed Earl Grey Tea. Heaven!
- Celestial Seasonings Mint Green Tea – Oh man, this makes a perfect cup of tea.
- Chamomile tea – if you ever have trouble sleeping, one cup of this tea will give you the best night’s sleep you could even imagine.
- Echinacea tea- My family knows that I keep this tea on hand for the second anyone seems under the weather. If anyone has a sore throat or cough, I add some honey and lemon juice. We all swear by it.
- Mandarin Orange Spice Tea – One of my husband’s favorites. It’s awesome.
- Red Tea – This is one that I’m starting to fall hard for. The first time I tried it, I wasn’t sure if I loved it or hated it! It was intriguing enough to try again and I’ve actually grown very fond of it.
- Candy Cane Lane – a Holiday Tea from Celestial Seasonings. I was afraid that it’d disappear after Christmas, so I pretty much loaded up on it. It’s a Green Tea, and another way that Celestial Seasonings has made Green Tea great for the masses. I wish I’d grabbed more of their Sugar Plum Spice Holiday tea. I’m still kicking myself over that.
There are other teas as well, but these are the ones that come to mind. One word about tea: I recently stopped drinking caffeine after 6 pm. I’m the biggest coffee and tea addict in the world, and caffeine’s a great, close friend. However, my sleep was beginning to suffer, so I’ve started enjoying the heck out of cups of decaf tea in the evening.
I’m sleeping like an overweight housecat who just got her belly full. But enough about Alexa. Last night, I had a huge mug of Celestial Seasonings Mint Green tea and, get this, I blissfully slept right through what (I hear) was a heckuva storm! We were expecing a storm last night – all the weather reports said to batten down the hatches. This morning, I asked my daughter Stephany, “Did it not storm last night after all?” Her eyes got huge and she said, “You slept through it?!?!”
Um, yeah. Apparently the lights went out (meaning my beloved fan which I can’t sleep without also went out). My husband even got up during it. News to me. Wake me when it’s over. No, on second thought – don’t wake me, deep sleep is sweet.
Something else I love to great extremes? Tees! Being from Kentucky, I have an extra strong love affair with trees. We’ve lived in a lot of different states, and while they each had their own beauty – I always missed my beautiful green Kentucky and all of her horses, hills, farms, cardinals, Kentucky wildlife, and trees.
So I’m all kind of jazzed up about this “teas and trees” post!
Celestial Seasonings Gives Us A Cool Way to Make a Difference
Celestial Seasonings is smack in the middle of a tree planting program that I know you’ll want to get involved in. The Celestial Seasonings’ Trees for the Future partnership includes a virtual, sustainability-promoting, tree-planting program. It allows people to give back to an eco-friendly cause without paying a dime OR by simply buying a box of tea. Read what The Environmental Leader had to say about the program.
By simply purchasing tea or clicking on a mouse, Celestial Seasonings tea drinkers can support the planting of trees in developing countries and help promote environmental and economic sustainability around the world. The brand has partnered with non-profit organization Trees for the Future to support the planting of more than one million trees in developing countries. These trees promote economic and environmental sustainability in nations where it is desperately needed.
Tea drinkers can take part in two fun and affordable ways: by purchasing the brand’s all-natural teas between now and March 31, 2009, and by visiting www.celestialseasonings.com/trees, where they are given the opportunity to participate in a free, interactive, Web program that turns “virtual trees” into reality.
The online program was developed to further engage tea drinkers and make the tree planting experience more tangible. This site also gives consumers an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the sustainability efforts of Celestial Seasonings and Trees for the Future. Celestial Seasonings earth-friendly approach to making tea includes a focus on sustainable harvests, ethical trade practices and minimal packaging, which saves more than 3.5 million pounds of waste from entering landfills annually.
The Press Release:
Celestial Seasonings® Asks Tea Drinkers to Make a Difference by Planting “Virtual Trees” Online
The specialty tea leader partners with Trees for the Future to plant more than one million trees in developing countries around the globe.
BOULDER, Colo.— February 3, 2009 —By simply purchasing tea or clicking on a mouse, Celestial Seasonings® tea drinkers can support the planting of trees in developing countries and help promote environmental and economic sustainability around the world.
Celestial Seasonings will sponsor the planting of more than one million trees through a new partnership with the nonprofit organization Trees for the Future. Tea drinkers can join Celestial Seasonings in planting trees in two ways: by purchasing the brand’s all-natural teas between now and March 31, 2009, and by visiting www.celestialseasonings.com/trees, where they are given the opportunity to participate in a free interactive program that turns “virtual trees” into reality.
“Our tree-planting program is a fun, affordable way for Celestial Seasonings tea drinkers to make a difference during trying economic times,” said Peter Burns, General Manager of Celestial Seasonings. “With the help of our valued consumers and the like-minded environmental stewards at Trees for the Future, we will sponsor the planting of more than one million trees and help promote sustainability worldwide.”
Online visitors to www.celestialseasonings.com/trees can plant a tree in a virtual forest generated entirely by fellow users. For each virtual tree planted, Celestial Seasonings will sponsor the planting of one real tree in a developing country by Trees for the Future. The online experience enables visitors to view the growing virtual forest of trees and watch their own tree sprout and grow. Users also discover how trees benefit the environment and economies of emerging nations by improving the quality of their water, air and soil, promoting biodiversity and generating additional income.
Visitors also learn about the brand’s earth-friendly practices, including the growing, harvesting and sourcing of their ingredients and the packaging of their products. Because they have worked with many of the same farmers for more than 30 years, the specialty tea leader has been able to establish sustainable harvests and support ethical trade practices. Additionally, Celestial Seasonings’ use of minimal packaging, including a unique tea bag that requires no strings, tags, staples or individual wrappers, saves more than 3.5 million pounds of waste from entering landfills annually.
Since 1988, Trees for the Future has planted more than 70 million trees in Central America, Africa and Asia – helping thousands of communities improve their livelihoods and their environment. These newly planted trees remove approximately 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year.
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You just inspired me to go buy some celestial seasonings tea.
Awesome! You won’t regret it one bit. – Joi