Chicago :

Hip 'Hopper

07.21.2008

Submitted by alara on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 12:01am.
The Bite:
imageLooking to find green gifts with flava? Bust a move to Bucktown’s hip new eco-boutique Grasshopper 510, home to superfly, earth-friendly everything. Owner Jean Taylor kicks it old school fo’ realz, selling only recycled, repurposed, sustainable, or organic gifts such as jewelry, art, kids’ toys, and bath stuff. Friends getting hitched? Grab Melt’s recycled aluminum bowls. Baby bash? Check out the organic fleece and velour baby blankets. New boo? Snag off-the-hook cufflinks made from old CTA tokens, which, like a lot of G’hop’s gems, are exclusive to Chicago. Word.
Wanna Try: 
Grasshopper 510, 1944 N. Damen Ave. b/t Homer St. and Armitage Ave. (773-292-0510). Melt recycled aluminum bowls, $275-$310; Robbie Adrian’s baby blankets, $75 and up; CTA cufflinks: $75.
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Giant, mutated grasshoppers attacked Chicago in the 1957 film Beginning of the End.

Small Changes Add Up

If 10,000 Chicago Biters buy recycled cufflinks instead of regular ones, we’ll ditch the weight of two Missy Elliotts in virgin metal production and the manufacturing waste that goes with it.

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