Eco Trends

"Via Creativa Gallery is a showcase of Fair Trade and American-made hand craft in Virginia Beach. We focus on social responsibility through the retail of functional crafts including textiles, eco-friendly products, and lots of beautiful jewelry. Our Fair Trade supports non-profit organizations and small businesses in Africa and Columbia, and our American artists are individuals and small...

It is time for us to learn to live and shop sustainably. Plastic is widely thought of as disposable/one use, but is doesn't degrade and only a very small portion of it is ever recycled. It is creating huge areas in our ocean which is harmful to the creatures which mistake it as a food source. We shop for lots of items without regard for where or by whom it is produced or where it ends up when...

Eco Maniac Company offers eco-friendly products to help you reduce your use of single use plastics. We also carry products that are recycled, sustainably made, upcycled, repurposed and other wise good for our planet. We also offer eco-friendly gift baskets, sustainable promotional products, sustainable event-ware and more!

We specialize in finding unique hand crafted items which are unusual and quirky. We purchase American Made handcrafts and support those small American businesses that are recycling/repurposing/upcycling and using green methods in their production. About 80% of our items are American Made and include jewelry, wearables, glass, pottery, woodwork, cards and gifts.
The other 20% is Fair Trade out...

Local, sustainable, Fair Trade describe the type of great items carried by Eco Trends. Our local businesses include Blue Crab Books, Dos Manos, Earthy Child, Eco Maniac Company, Morphed, Path of Paper, Rogue Elephant Coffee, Wildflower Designs. Our Fair Trade offerings include Tribal Textiles which benefit Options for Children in Zambia (see: www.optionsforchildren.org) Zambeezi, Cards from...