Green Autumn

Create Car-Pool Rules for Your Neighborhood Car-Pool

In a previous post we looked at how to start organizing a car-pool. If you are organizing a car-pool, your group will need some rules. Car-pool rules are easier to implement right from the start – if you just skip merrily along, making up rules as you go, your car-pool won’t be as useful or [...]

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Organize a school car-pool in your neighborhood

According to Safe Routes to School, “In 1969, approximately 50% of children walked or bicycled to school, with approximately 87% of children living within one mile of school walking or bicycling. Today, fewer than 15% of schoolchildren walk or bicycle to school.” Not only does this promote a country full of overweight, inactive kids, but nowadays, [...]

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50 Affordable & Eco-friendly Halloween Treats

Going green at Halloween can be inexpensive in some ways. For example, you can reuse costumes, swap costumes, make homemade Halloween costumes, bake organic Halloween cookies from scratch with bulk ingredients and more. That said, it can be expensive to hand out healthier or greener treats to a zillion trick or treaters. When bulk conventional candy is not only [...]

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Creative sugar-free Halloween treat for kids

Not everyone wants to give out sugary candy at Halloween. But honestly, will raisins or bananas or Halloween tattoos really go over all that well with kids high on sugar? Maybe not so much. This year I’m handing out candy (Equal Exchange Organic Dark Chocolate Minis), but for a while I was brainstorming a cool non-edible treat [...]

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Have a wonderful and eco-friendly autumn

Autumn kicked off yesterday and we celebrated with… 10 Organic Popsicle Recipes that Celebrate Autumn Flavors Nature-minded Craft Ideas that Celebrate Autumn However, I also thought a round-up of some past fall ideas might be useful plus the cutest little autumn toy ever! First the toy… Apple Park® Who the Owl Picnic Pal: This adorable [...]

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Nature-minded Craft Ideas that Celebrate Autumn

Today is the first day of autumn, which is totally reason enough to celebrate, but in case you need more reasons here are some festive fall crafts you and the kids can do together. So first I saw these ADORABLE Toadstool Acorn People (above) which are so cute that they could have been enough to tide [...]

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10 Organic Popsicle Recipes that Celebrate Autumn Flavors

Happy first day of autumn! Fall is my most favorite time of year, so today I’ve got a few nice posts planned, but autumn popsicles that celebrate all the wonderful flavors of fall come first… 1 – Harvest ice pops Wash, peel and cut 1 and 1/2 apples PLUS 1/4 butternut squash into chunks. Steam [...]

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Adorable and Eco-friendly Halloween Party Invitations

If you’re having a Halloween party this year, and you’re too busy to make homemade invites, then Paper Culture may be your second best bet for cute and eco-friendly Halloween party invitations. I like the Mad Scientist invite shown above, but they have lots and lots of other sweet Halloween designs to choose from. Some modern, some adult-minded [...]

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National Costume Swap Day is Coming – Register Your Own Costume Swap

You know, green families have almost zero choices when it comes to pre-made eco-friendly Halloween costumes for kids. There’s just very little out there made with sustainable fabrics or other materials. You can go with a homemade Halloween costume if you’re crafty, but not all parents are (um, me) so your next best option is [...]

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Top 10 best green holiday books

Now that September is here, holidays a plenty are soon arriving. Get ready to green your holiday season, with these top 10 best green holiday books… 1 - Celebrate Green: If you only buy one green holiday book, make it this one, because it rocks AND covers all the holidays. Read my full review. 2 - I’m Dreaming [...]