St. Patrick’s Day is right around the bend and we wanna know if you already have your party plans in place.

St. Patty’s is one of our favorite holidays and eco-friendly-ing it up is even more fun!  This year, why not try the tips below to make your Irish holiday that much better?!

1.  Party it up with carpooling pals.  Don’t just meet at the Irish pub this year, instead meet your friends at a local park n’ ride or meet up at your place and carpool to your destination.  It’s safer, more green and this way you can better establish that all too important designated driver.

2. If you’re throwing your own St. Patty’s Day party this year, remember to use eco-friendly plates and utensils and try your hand at crafting your own decorations, go green while green!  We know you have a handcrafted shamrock in you!

3.  Go local.  Check around local breweries that will be offering up green beers this year.  Shamrock cookies and shortbread will be easily found at local bakeries, maybe even a local organic bakery!

Whatever you decide to do this St. Patrick’s Day, keep it safe and keep it green!

Eco-conscious designer Stella McCartney has made headlines recently with the launch of her newest project, a green kids apparel collection.

The Stella McCartney Kids Spring-Summer 2011 collection was launched just Wednesday and is already turning heads.  The collection features 100% organic cotton clothing and shoes made from natural and sustainable cork.

Speaking of her new collection, McCartney reveals, “Building from the basics of the launch collection, I wanted to use prints that would appeal to kids, such as animals, rainbows, and nature..”

“The whole idea was to make clothes that kids will enjoy; and that are not restrictive. To allow girls to be girly and pretty, but still have fun and mix in some tomboy unisex pieces.”

A percentage of the proceeds from the collection will go to McCartney’s family charity, the Meat-Free Monday campaign which aims to persuade people to be vegetarian at least once a week to lessen the environmental effect of the meat industry.

Talk about something worth talking about!  We love ourselves some green fashion deals and it looks like Real-Jewels.com is taking the cake this Thursday March morning.

Right now you can hop onto Real-Jewels.com for a steal of an eco-friendly deal, you pay $20 for $40 of earth-friendly jewelry, which is sort of a funner way to say it’s a half off sale.

Choose from five extensive lines of 100 percent recycled precious metals and fair trade sustainable gems, it’s time to fill up your jewelry box or that of a friends!

Eco-friendly fashion is making some serious and fashionable headway and these Girl’s Eco-Friendly KEEN Coronado High Top Sneakers are certainly no exception to that new rule.

Made with vulcanized construction and recycled aluminum eyelets, these trendy and durable high-top shoes are the perfect fit for your girls.  Featuring dual elastic panels and a heel pull tab for easy on/off as well as non-marking rubber outsole, these sneakers are the right choice for green and the right choice for durability.  It’s a win, win.

Available in Black, Jester Red and Bronze Green for $35.

At the 83rd Academy Awards, actor Colin Firth not only stole the show with accolades for his The King’s Speech performance but for his eco-friendly attire.

As always, Firth and his wife Livia donned environment-friendly outfits at the Oscars and this year they did it up recycled style in order to raise awareness for recycled fashion.

Livia, who founded Fairtrade boutique Eco Age, wore an amazing paneled gown recycled from old dresses on the red carpet while Colin made a Tom Ford suit made of ethical materials look better than good!

“It defies what you normally see on the red carpet. It’s really beautiful – it’s pretty but also has a message,” said Livia.