We are very happy to announce the launch of our first iPhone Application. The Ecoki Reader is a simple iPhone application that lets you stay on top of all things Ecoki. The application is an easy way to read the latest news on the iPhone. Lots of updates are coming soon!.

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You can view the new Ecoki Reader website here.

A very big thank you to Nicolas Cormier for developing the iPhone Application.  Chacola.com

Also a very big thank you to Aran Seaman for his amazing work on the Ecoki iPhone Reader page!

The Swish Life is a fresh, new lifestyle magazine dedicated to those who love a little bit of everything.

Whether its the latest in culture, up-to-date tech debuts, or the newest cars on the market, we’re there. Regardless of your interest(s), The Swish Life strives to provide you with everything from an ongoing art exhibit to men’s beauty tips (and we know you want them).

Launched in late 2009, we’re on our way to bringing you what you need, love and want: an e-magazine that delivers you everything in one.

Whether you’re tuning in for a news update, perusing the latest sculptors, or seeing what’s the latest on the runway, we welcome you to The Swish Life. With this design we worked with the great Liam at We Function and Derek at Valen Designs.

And suggestions? They’re always welcome. Fire them at us at contact@theswishlife.com

View our latest launches

TheSwishLife.com The Swish Life Magazine
Ecoki.com The Most Active Eco Community
Applereviews.com The site for everything apple
Enviramedia.com Environmental Investment Group
Designslurp.com The home page for Vector illustrators
Tweethawk.com Nature Based Free Twitter Wallpapers

We love prowling the web for the latest trends and design inspiration. Here we have composed a list of common resources we use. The primary focus of this list is inspiration, it can come from a photograph, font, or a website. The secondary focus is improving your design skills, which can be done by keeping up to date with tutorials and reading other graphic design blogs. We hope you enjoy our personal list of great sites, and we will be adding to this list in the coming weeks and months as there are a lot of great new sites coming online every other day now.

OUR LATEST DESIGN RELATED SITES:

Free Vector Art Files

Free photoshop file downloads

Css website gallery nature based

Free website templates downloads

Free Stock Photos and Templates

Free Font Downloads

Free Fonts and Other Resources: Web Page Publicity
Huge Collection of Free Fonts: Da Font
Nice Selection of Free Fonts: Urban Fonts
Fonts and Other Freebies: Simply The Best Fonts
1001 Free Fonts for Download: 1001 Free Fonts
Over 9000 Free Fonts: Creamundo
A Small List of Free Fonts: Best Free Fonts

Paid Font Sites

A Large Selection of Fonts for Purchase: My Fonts
Quality Fonts for Purchase: Veer
Information and Fonts for Purchase: Fonts
Font Resources and Sales: Font Haus

Stock Photos and Vectors

The Best Stock Photo and Vector Website
Quality Photos for Purchase: Shutterstock
Stock Photos and Other Pay Downloads: Veer
Quality, Affordable Vectors for Purchase: Vector Stock
Stock Photos With a Great Selection: Jupiter Images
Stock Photos and Photography Network: Stock Vault
Quality Stock Photos: Corbis
Free Stock Wedding Photos Wedding Photographer Victoria Vancouver BC

Free Photos and Vectors

Submit Vectors or Download Others for Free: Free Vector Art
Tons of Great Free Vectors and Photos: Deviant Art
59 Pages of Free Vector Art: Free Vectors
Quality Vector Downloads: Vector 4 Free
Neat Collection of Free Photos From Around the World: Free Stock Photos
Great Collection of Free Vectors and Resources: You The Designer
Great Free Stock Photos: Free Foto
A List of Free Downloads: Bittbox
700 Free Stock Photos: Free Picture Click

Website Templates

A Few High Quality Wordpress Themes: Evan Eckard
Over 2000 Free Web Templates: OSWD
A Large Selection of Nice Templates: Free Website  Templates
A Large List of Free Templates: Free CSS Templates
Nice Wordpress Templates for Download: Free CSS Templates
A Combination of Free and Pay Templates: Free Templates Online
Affordable, Quality Templates: Templamatic
Free Blog Templates: Blogging Themes

CSS Galleries

The Best Nature Sites on the Web: CSS Nature Website Gallery
A Frequently Updated Gallery of Sites: CSS Mania
An Organized List of Nice Sites: Most Inspired
CSS Gallery of Quality Sites: CSS Design Yorkshire
A Selection of Only Nature Based Sites: CSS Nature
A Selective List of Well Designed Sites: Web Creme
High Quality CSS Showcase: CSS Tux
Nice CSS Websites: The Designed Tree
A CSS Collection Organized by Category: CSS Elite

Inspiration

A Great Site About Everything Type: I Love Typography
An Incredible Illustrator: Burst of Beaden
A Great Designer and Illustrator: Fully Illustrated
Customizable List of Design Resources: Cork Dump
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada: GDC
Freelance Advice Blog and Resources: Freelance Switch
Amazing Collection of Logos: Logopond
Stunning Desktop Wallpapers: Desktopography
A Graphic Design Magazine: Computer Arts

Tutorials

The Best Photoshop Tutorials: PSD Tuts
A Talented Photoshop Designer: Abduzeedo
Photoshop Tutorials and Web Design Resources: Web Design Library
Tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator and More: Tutorial Vault
A Few Neat Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials: Design Spice
Great Photoshop Tutorials and Downloads: PS Wish
Tutorials for Every Computer Program: Tutorialing

Free Photoshop Downloads

A Couple Free Patterns for Download: Design Spice
Free Photoshop Brushes: Design Fruit
Free Photoshop Actions: Visual Blast
Tons of Free Photoshop Brushes: Brusheezy
A Few Nice Free Photoshop Brushes: Obsidian Dawn
Great Grunge Brushes and Others: Photoshop Brushes
Free Background Patterns for Photoshop: Free BG
Over 150 Free Background Patterns: Squidfingers

Design Blogs

A Frequently Updated Design Blog: Veerle’s Blog
A Design Magazine and Blog: Smashing Magazine
A European Design Blog: Design In Europe
A Unique Nerdy Blog: Design You Trust
The Personal Blog of a Graphic Designer: Larissa Meek
A German Design Blog: David Hellmann
The Blog of a Canadian Geek/Model: Mostly Lisa
A Graphic Design Blog: Bittbox
A Blog About Freelance Graphic Design Advice: Freelance Switch
A Design Blog Full of Resources: You The Designer
A Popular Design Blog: Fazai 38

Colour Palettes

A Flash Site of User Generated Colour Palettes: Adobe Kuler
Using Colours From Photos: Colr
Colours, Palettes and Patterns: COLOURlovers
A Colour Palette Generated From Your Images: Color Palette Generator
See The Results of Your Palette on a Website: Color Spire
Create and Email Colour Palettes: Color Blender

Tips and Tricks

Vector Do’s and Dont’s: iStockphoto
The Web Design Polish: PSD Tuts
Promote Your Design Business: Freelance Switch
How To Increase Web Traffic: You The Designer

Coders

$50 per page awesome psd to xhtml DROPNCHOP.COM (We recommend them, and use them)
Quality Programming: XHTMLized
Professional Web Slicing: PSD Slicing
Affordable, Quality Coding: PSD2HTML
From Design to Code, Quick and Cheap: Front Enders

Designer Geek Merch

Great Nerdy Clothing and Accessories: Veer
Nice T-Shirt Collection: Designer T-Shirts
Graphic Design T-Shirts and Accessories: Cafepress
Geek Merchandise For Everyone: Think Geek
Graphic Design T-Shirts: Zazzle
Unique T-Shirt Designs You Can’t Find Anywhere Else: Allmightys
Web Templates

Newly added resources

A great new marketplace for stock graphic design: Inkd.com
A fantastic resource for finding information on corporate brand identity: Brands of the World
We just launched a fun eco focused site ecoki.com
Our Free Vector File Site is launched.
Free Photoshop File Downloads

AppleReviews.com is giving away $5,000 worth of Apple accessories, hardware, apps, software and more in our Hyper Giveaway!  Visit applereviews.com, and join us on twitter at twitter.com/applereviews for a chance to win.

We will be doing weekly giveaways leading up to the Hyper Giveaway in September.

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Applereviews.com provides you with up-to-date information, news, reviews, and articles about everything Mac-related.

From the latest news to the most recent obscure app, our mission is to develop a comprehensive hardware and software information destination, with daily published featured articles. We strive to bring you the best information possible, whether its in a detailed review, the newest hardware, or simply a useful tip.

Our passion and drive is based on for bringing you the best of Mac; hatched mid-2008, our goal is to swiftly grow into a top internet resource for all things Apple. Designed and Developed by Studio 7 Designs Inc, with help from wefunction on the Wordpress Design.

We welcome your opinion, ideas, and recommendation; please contact us or visit our contribution page for more information on how you can get involved!

Visit AppleReviews.com

We made the TweetHawk logo available for CandyBar as well as available as an icon pack. All the images are under the Creative Commons 3.0 licence. Basically use as you like other then for commercial use, and a link back to Studio 7 Designs is appreciated but not required if you find a good use for the icons.

We just launched Tweethawk Twitter Backgrounds, a free twitter backgrounds gallery. Since we wanted to make only the highest quality designs, it is taking us some time to make each background image. We hope to have 10 designs in total launched soon.

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DOWNLOAD ICON PACK (PNG)

DOWNLOAD CANDYBAR ICNS PACK (OSX)

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View our latest community site. Ecoki.com

We are excited to launch the first site on the Slurp Network today. Design Slurp is a site dedicated to the design community. We feature some of the top blogs, galleries, magazines, and tutorials all in one home page.

We have a ways to go with this site and will be updating the site with more sites and information in the coming months. Please feel free to send us your feedback on how we can make this design home page even better!

Visit DesignSlurp.com

The main above the fold shows the Slurp Network drop down, as well as the latest in design news today.

We love PSDTUTS and had to add their latest tutorials to the main page..

Our favorite quality CSS design site Best Web Gallery was chosen for the latest sites.

If you would like to send us feedback, or inquire about advertising rates. Please email contact@enviramedia.com

View our latest launches

Ecoki.com The Eco Community
Applereviews.com The site for everything apple
Enviramedia.com Environmental Investment Group
Designslurp.com The home page for designers and illustrators
Tweethawk.com Nature Based Twitter Backgrounds

ecoki.com is a fresh, new eco-community, dedicated towards bringing you the best in sustainable living.

Confucius once said: “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it more complicated.” We keep that in mind at ecoki, whether it’s within our articles, the items in our shop, or even our layout. ecoki highlights the simple things in life, adds the newest in everything eco-related, and delivers a community to meet your green living lifestyle.

We know that each person has different interests, so we strive to provide information and updates in all areas, from the newest scientific breakthroughs through the latest eco-fashion fad.

We understand that families, individuals, organizations and companies are all moving towards a greener approach – whether we do our best to decrease our paper use, drive bicycles instead of automobiles, or enjoy a Fair-Trade morning coffee.

ecoki knows that sometimes things are easier said than done. You have ideas on what you can do to become greener, but do you really know the steps to get there?  Starting an organic vegetable garden seems like a great idea for fresher produce, chemical-free vegetables, and saving money – but what are the steps to building one? We have you covered – in addition to our many other easy-to-follow ideas  to make your life a little greener.

But we also are aware of “greenwashing”; eco-friendly doesn’t always mean that it’s better. With this in mind, we take the time and precautions to explore our ideas, sources, reviews, and articles before we post them. The ecoki team stands by its reviews, recommendations, and articles.

In addition to our articles, we also are constantly building our shop, delivering sustainable selections of the best eco-products. Using our standards, we choose ones that are truly “green”, often alongside a detailed review, you are aware of how planet-friendly your purchase will be.

We are always looking for contributors, whether you just have an idea or recommendations, you’re a conscious company interested in advertising, or a planet-friendly writer or blogger. Explore our site to see if you fit, and see our guidelines on how to connect.

Our mission is built around the idea of living a simple and sustainable life; we pride ourselves with bringing you up-to-date news, tips and ideas, and the latest in eco-trends. We believe that creating and maintaining our eco-ethos, and delivering to our readers, is what makes ecoki what it is. Many thanks to wefunction for working with us on the design.

A sample of posts to get you started:

Travel
Global eco-volunteerism with GoEco
Offset your next flight with FlyGreen.ca

Fashion
Green gowns for your big day
63% increase in organic cotton

Health
Beware of greenwashing and false claims
How to buy the perfect bike

Food
Steeping and sipping: the tea low-down
Recipe: Mushroom Stew with Kale and Brown Rice

Design
Database satisfies search for sustainable goods: Ecolect
Cork: more than just for memo boards

Technology
iPhone and Palm Pre help the environment: here’s how
How to reduce paper consumption in one easy step

Science
Evidence of cold fusion confirmed
Endangered orangutan population found

Reviews
Review: pack it right with To-Go Ware Action Pack
Review: Siliskins silicone bottle snugglers

Living Green
Rainforest Alliance grows despite economic times
Veganism and the planet

We wanted to start a collection of great eco based companies around the world that are really making a difference. We are starting with 101 companies and will be expanding this list in the future to include some up and coming bright start-up companies. If you have any other suggestions for this list please feel free to contact us with your ideas.

We must also thank PSDTuts for the great design tutorial for the green grass post image, you can view the tutorial here. Thank you and enjoy!

Top Eco Blogs from Around the World

ECOKI.COM THE ECO NEWS COMMUNITY
The best eco news and product reviews community!.

ECOBLE.COM
All about ecological design, innovation and sustainability.

NIGELSECOSTORE.COM
The eco blog of an environmentally friendly clothing and products company.

SOLARKATECO.BLOGSPOT.COM
An environmentalist, who posts about eco news, natural products, food and much more.

INHABITAT.COM
A blog devoted to green construction, green design and everything environmental.

IJDESIGN.COM
News about making a difference, design tips and green Graphic Design.

GDUSA.COM
An online magazine focusing on green Graphic Design and other environmentalism.

ENVIROBLOG.ORG
Public Health concerns in relation to the changing environment.

GREEN-BLOG.ORG
A nicely designed blog with tons of green topics to choose from.

FABGREEN.COM
Fashion, decorating and design topics, with a green twist.

ECO-CAN.CA
Canada’s place for environmental news and product information.

GREENYOURDECOR.COM
All about stylish, eco-friendly decor.

NATURALCOLLECTION.TYPEPAD.COM
The blog of the green clothing company Natural Collection.

Environmental Clothing Companies

GREENLABEL.COM
100% Certified Organic T-Shirts, with tons of great pro-earth designs.

INHABITAT.COM
Organic T-Shirts with nice tree designs.

ETIKO.COM.AU
Fair trade sports gear and fashion apparel.

HTNATURALS.COM
A selection of all natural and organically grown textile products.

PATAGONIA.COM
All natural outdoor clothing and travel gear.

MEC.CA
Outdoor clothing, adventure gear and sports equipment from a company that is driven by environmental integrity.

RAPANUICLOTHING.COM
Organic clothing and surfwear manufactured in a factory powered by wind and solar power.

DANDELIONCLOTHINGCOMPANY.COM
Women’s and men’s fair trade and homemade apparel and accessories.

THEOKOBOX.COM
Women’s and men’s fair trade and homemade apparel and accessories.

GREENISBLACK.CA
Fashion for environmentally conscious men and women.

KATEQUINNORGANICS.COM
Organic cotton baby clothes, children’s clothes and bedding.

Green Printers

GREENPRINTERONLINE.COM
An online printer that uses CO2 friendly eco papers and vegetable based inks.

BAREFOOTPRESS.COM
American printing company that uses soy ink on recycled paper.

GREENERPRINTER.COM
Eco-friendly online printing, using 100% wind power.

PRINTGREENER.COM
Green Print provides software to help eliminate unwanted printing.

GREENFIELDPAPER.COM
Hemp paper, handmade paper, recycled wrapping paper, business cards and more.

MARKETSINITIATIVE.ORG
This handy reference tells the truth about different eco-paper labels.

ECOPAPER.COM
Providing tree-free paper made with sustainable and organic materials.

LOVELYASATREE.COM
Helps Graphic Designers to choose paper and printers that are environmentally friendly.

INKWORKSPRESS.ORG
A certified Green Business, by using exclusively recycled papers and vegetable oil inks.

Online Communities and Information

TREEHUGGER.COM
The largest green community on the internet.

EARTHEASY.COM
The informative portion of the Eartheasy website. Discussing how you can make environmentally friendly choices in your daily life.

EC.GC.CA
A Canadian government info site. Providing information on reducing your impact on the environment in your personal life.

ZEROFOOTPRINT.NET
Large non-profit website with information, carbon calculators, green news and an entire community.

DESIGN21SDN.COM
The online community for socially conscious designers of all kinds.

ECOWORLD.COM
Tons of articles featuring green focused technology, nature and current news from around the world.

GREENLIVINGONLINE.COM
A Canadian online magazine devoted to living a green life.

LIGHTERFOOTSTEP.COM
Dedicated to helping you live a lighter, more sustainable lifestyle.

Natural Products

EARTHEASY.COM
The shopping portion of the Eartheasy website. They provide all sorts of great sustainable products.

ECO-COSMETICS.COM
Cosmetic products relying on substances from certified organic plants and innovative combinations.

ECOLOGO.ORG
This site provides information on “Certified” green companies and products.

GRASSROOTSSTORE.COM
A large selection of environmental consumer products.

ECO-HANDBAGS.CA
Fantastic handbags made of recycled materials.

NIGELSECOSTORE.COM
Great environmentally friendly products, wearables and energy saving devices.

ECO-COSMETICSUK.COM
Developers of inexpensive and certified natural cosmetics.

ECOCOSMETICS.COM.AU
A range of skincare products using only the purest plant-based ingredients.

NATURALCOLLECTION.COM
From clothing and accessories to home and office.

ZIAANDTIA.COM
Organic children’s clothing, furniture and skincare.

LITTLEGREENBAGS.CA
Earth-friendly bags, dedicated to being fair trade and biodegradable.

GREENKNICKERS.ORG
Fair trade organic underwear for men and women.

Green Designers

SEGD.ORG
The Society for Environmental Graphic Design.

ZODSHOPCO.UK
Graphic Design company that works with businesses and people concerned about environmental issues.

IJDESIGN.COM
Green web design and Graphic Design.

MORSEBROWNDESIGN.CO.UK
A Graphic Design business with a strong environmental conscience.

FREERANGESTUDIOS.COM
Selling ideas that build a more just and sustainable world.

CREATINGMEDIA.CO.UK
Web design and Graphic Design ethically driven and environmentally compassionate.

ALRDESIGN.COM
Socially conscious and environmentally friendly Graphic Design.

MICHAUD-DESIGN.COM
Environmentally conscious Graphic Design.

CUMULUS-DESIGN.COM
Cumulus is proud to offer you a wide range of eco-friendly printing, paper and packaging products designed to fit all needs and budgets.

COMPOSITE-PROJECTS.COM
Working to minimize Graphic Design’s impact on the environment.

LUNARMEDIA.NET
Graphic Design that uses green printing and wind powered web hosting.

Eco Hosting

AISO.NET
Providers of 100% solar energy web hosting, servicing major clients such as the Discovery Channel.

SOLARHOST.CO.UK
Web hosting powered by 100% solar power.

SUSTAINABLEHOSTING.COM
Powered by renewable wind energy Sustainable Hosting is dedicated to being carbon neutral.

ETHICALHOST.CA
Web hosting services 100% powered by renewable wind power, with 10% of profits going to social and environmental organizations.

DREAMHOST.COM
A carbon-neutral organization since 2007.

GREENHOSTING.ORG
Canadian wind powered web hosting.

GOGREENHOSTING.COM
Certified wind power web hosting from an ethical company.

SUSTAINABLEWEBSITES.COM
100% carbon neutral web hosting.

SOLARENERGYHOST.COM
Solar powered web hosting, by a carbon neutral company.

IMOUNTAIN.COM
A solar web hosting provider, that gives back to the community.

THINKHOST.COM
Providing high quality earth-friendly web hosting and supporting positive social change.

Global Warming

ALGORE.COM
Al Gore’s official website, focusing on his fight against climate change.

CLIMATECRISIS.NET
The website for Al Gore’s famous movie on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth.

THECLIMATEPROJECT.ORG
Dedicated to raising awareness about climate change.

EPA.GOV/CLIMATECHANGE
The United States Environmental Protection Agency site with extensive resources on climate change.

CLIMATEHOTMAP.ORG
The early warning signs of global warming.

NASA.GOV
NASA’s take on Global Warming.

REALCLIMATE.ORG
A blog dedicated to the science of our climate.

Environmental Photography

BRAASCHPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Photography from amazing places all over the world.

IANADAMSPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Award-winning sustainable photography.

JMG-GALLERIES.COM
A talented photographer with stunning environmental photos.

WILDSITE.COM.AU
Environmental photos that feel like they are alive.

DANIELALDOGOMEZ.COM
Photography from Antarctica to the Amazon and Argentina.

GARYWHITE-PHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Travel photography from London photographer Gary White.

TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
Article: Environmental Photographer of the Year winner.

STUARTMEIKLEPHOTO.CO.UK
Stunning imagery by an award winning photographer.

HANGINGPIXELS.COM
Beautiful environmental photographs for purchase.

Articles

TIME.COM
Discussing the new face of environmentalism.

ARSTECHNICA.COM
The results of the new UN environmental report.

DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM
Save the planet, by eating insects!

SCIAM.COM
What would happen to the world if human’s disappeared?

TREEHUGGER.COM
Americans care more about gay marriage than Global Warming.

ODDITYCENTRAL.COM
A Sea of Garbage in Indonesia.

GUARDIAN.CO.UK
The true impact of Global Warming.

GLOBALWARMING-FACTS.INFO
50 things you can do to stop Global Warming.

LIGHTERFOOTSTEP.COM
Five things that are worse than Global Warming.

NWF.ORG
The effects of climate change on wildlife.

PHYSORG.COM
Major cities turn off power to raise environmental awareness.

ECOKI Hands On Eco Product Reviews
The best eco news and product reviews community!.

We have been very busy working on quite a few projects in the last year and finally are ready to roll them out one at a time over the next couple of months. Here is a preview of some of the projects and what we have been up to!

We will have individual posts about the new projects and what we have planned for them, but quickly here are some of the latest launches. Some of them are live and some are about to launch in the next week or two.

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Twitter

Follow us on Twitter at EnviraMedia and Ecoki … We look forward to hearing from you!

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Ecoki.com The Sustainable Lifestyle Community

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TweetHawk Twitter Backgrounds

We just launched Tweethawk Twitter Backgrounds, a free twitter backgrounds gallery. Since we wanted to make only the highest quality designs, it is taking us some time to make each background image. We hope to have 10 designs in total by the end of this month.

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Envira Media Inc Environmental Idea Lab

We are about a week away from launching our Environmental Media Company. (Yes we wish we could have gotten the domain EnviroMedia, but Envira has a nice ring to it and is close enough to Enviro) EnviraMedia Inc is our idea incubator and start up funding company. We are funding, and starting around 30 different online and offline initiatives that are focused on sustainable business models and environmental awareness.

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Team Ecoki at Kiva.org

We are happy to announce our Kiva.org Team Ecoki. We have managed to collectively raise enough funds as a business to be the 7th most donated business at Kiva.org with over $7,000US total raised within the first week. We hope you can join our team and help donate micro loans to hard working entrepreneurs around the world. We are only $6,500 away from beating out Microsoft in the amount of money raised! Our main goal is to beat Microsoft in donations by the end of 2009.

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Slurp Network Preview

We have been working on niche news and content network of aggregates. Called the Slurp Network. Here is a brief preview of what we hope to launch in the next few weeks. The first of the sites will be DesignSlurp.com.

We are excited about these launches coming up and will continue to update on these and more as they become ready to launch. Thanks to all the supporters on each project.

The EnviraMedia Team