All Shades of Green‘s a true one-stop-shop for all things green on the east side. The Silver Lake store has the practical stuff like green cleaners, the eco-motivational stuff like composters, shower timers, and books, and the less essential stuff but still fun stuff like jewelry, makeup, purses, and eco-lube from Good Clean Love.

There’s a card section, a kids’ toys selection, racks of organic clothes, and a pretty impressive collection of eco-friendly shoes! And of course, there’s fair trade, organic chocolate.

All Shades of Green also has a design center that helps people green their homes and offices. Natalie Freidberg, general manager of the store, said that she’s especially been focused on helping people save money by making eco-friendly energy-efficiency changes around the house.

I ran into Natalie again earlier this week at Blankspaces — who said that All Shades of Green’s owner’d evidently been peeved about a post I’d written about the store’s eco class series. All I did was point out that the classes were very similar to — but much more expensive than — those taught at eco-nonprofit Sustainable Works! Facts are facts –

Of course, Sustainable Works is a nonprofit that gets funding from the City of Santa Monica, which is why the classes are held on the westside and cost only $25 for a 6-week series of clases ($50 for City of L.A. residents) — compared to All Shades of Green’s $40 per class fee. If eastsiders who don’t want to burn fossil fuels to come to the west side would like more affordable classes near them, Angelenos can try to get their city to fund similar programs — whether by expanding Sustainable Works or by subsidizing All Shades of Green’s classes — by contacting their councilmembers.

All Shades of Green. 3038 Rowena Ave., Los Angeles. 323.665.7454.

Update, 4/21/09: All Shades of Green Liza Shtromberg’s Jewelry Studio wants to recycle your unwanted jewelry

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