Green Up Your Sex Life With These 5 TipsAdd Spice, Romance With An Eco-Friendly Love LifeIf Earth Day has you looking for ways to green up your life you might want to consider ways to make your sex life a little kinder to Mother Earth. iStock / schwesterIt's likely not the first thing you think of when seeking to lessen your impact on the environment, but there are many easy ways you can add a little more spice to your life while making it a more sustainable and greener life in the process. Your options include everything from "green dating" and eco-friendly yet still sexy undies to energy-saving romantic gestures and sensuously sleek bed sheets. You don't have to be turned on by CFLs or find that talking about your carbon footprint really flips your switch to enjoy our list of the five best ways to green up your sex life. All you need is an open mind, a healthy libido and a willing partner.Green Up Your Sex Life Tip No. 5Find A 'Green' LoverWhether you're fully committed to a greener lifestyle or just looking for someone to balance out your own less-than-Earth-friendly ways, finding a green lover might just make your love life more rewarding. ©iStockphoto.com/(sjlocke)Face it, dating itself can be hard enough without straining to find an environmentally-friendly partner, but there is help out there. Planet Green suggests a wide variety of match-making Web sites that are designed especially for green-minded romantics, including Green Passions, Green Friends, Green Singles and Earth Wise Singles. Then there's the more low-pressure option offered by Green Drinks, a movement popping up in cities around the country dedicated to bringing people with an interest in the environment together for drinks and conversation. And if all else fails, you can always cruise your local co-op or farmer's market in search of the perfect green partner. At the very least you'll be able to pick up some organic chocolate for those lonely nights if you strike out.Green Up Your Sex Life Tip No. 4Buy Environmentally-Friendly UnderwearOK, so everybody knows the right pair of underwear can make all the difference in the bedroom. But those unmentionables can also be unmentionably good for the environment. iStock / LPETTETOrganic cotton, hemp silk and bamboo are just some of the renewable fibers that can have you feeling sexy and environmental at the same time. Enamore offers a lingerie collection using a mix of organic hemp and silk and recycled fabrics while Green Knickers also provides a wide variety of eco-friendly underwear choices. But for that little something extra and just a bit more exotic -- it does come from France after all -- check out g=9.8, which offers sustainable undies made from white pine tree clippings. Wearing clothes made from recycled trees might not sound too comfy, but the resulting "Lenpur" fabric is touted as offering "the comfort of silk, the feel of cashmere and the coolness of linen." All that and biodegradable too; what else could you want in a pair of underwear?Green Up Your Sex Life Tip No. 3Remake Your Bed With Bamboo SheetsSure, sheets of satin, silk or high quality Egyptian cotton can all provide the canvas for a passionate evening, but how about giving bamboo sheets a try instead? iStock / SynergeeBamboo sheets carry all the benefits of those other luxurious materials while leaving behind most of the disadvantages. Besides being incredibly soft and silky, bamboo also wicks away moisture, making for an extra comfortable night between the sheets. For germophobe lovers, there's the added benefit of bamboo's natural antibacterial qualities and antifungal properties, the same properties that protect bamboo from insects and other pests when it is growing. But comfort and cleanliness aside, what really makes bamboo sexy is it's a rapidly renewable resource. Bamboo is very abundant and renewable, grows very quickly and is available in most every continent. By using bamboo byproducts that normally would be discarded, the sheets also help cut down on waste. Hey, who said recycling couldn't be sexy?Green Up Your Sex Life Tip No. 2Give Earth-Friendly Romantic GiftsIs there anything quite as sexy as getting a romantic gift from someone you love? From organic massage oils to fair trade chocolate, it's still possible to impress your sweetie while being environmental. iStock / Alina555How about a bottle of organic champagne or biodynamic red wine to set the mood? Appellation Wine and Spirits, a New York City-based business, offers just such wine and spirits. And Diamond Organics goes even further, offering not only organic wines, beers and champagne, but a wide variety of organic food, flowers and gifts to tempt your tree-hugging significant other. But you don't have to spend tons of green to impress your green lover. Consider a heart-felt poem, a foot rub, an organic breakfast in bed, or a coupon -- printed on recycled paper of course -- redeemable for a night of passion. And we would be remiss to ignore the aphrodisiac power of cheap and all-natural foods like strawberries, ginseng, avocadoes and oysters. Yummy and sexy is sure to please just about everybody.Green Up Your Sex Life Tip No. 1Share Energy-Saving Romantic AdventuresNobody ever said love was efficient. In fact, it more often than not tends to be exactly the opposite: messy and inefficient. But with a little thoughtful planning, you can provide some energy-efficient oomph to your relationship. iStock / GeorgeDolgikhGreenpeace offers the following practical green tip: bathe or shower together to save water while creating a passion for more than just the environment. As Greenpeace notes, for more than a billion people access to clean water is a luxury, so why not share what you have with a very close friend? Planet Green takes the suggestions even further, including setting the thermostat lower during the winter and compensating by generating your own heat in the bedroom. Then there's the ultimate romantic activity, a homemade dinner by candle light. What better way to help set the mood while cutting down on your electricity use? With ideas like that, it might not be too long before you find yourself looking at Mother Nature in a whole new way.
