Recycled Crayons for Valentine's Day
On a recent trip to the supermarket, I took a stroll down the valentine aisles. Holy Canoli, that’s a lot of garbage is all I have to say about the experience.
The good news, amongst the THREE aisles full of valentine-y JUNK, I located 3 different boxes of eco-conscious Valentine cards (the little classroom trading cards). Each had a different earth message, one was about saving the rain forests, another was about recycling, and the third was about animals. They were labeled as using recycled paper and soy based inks.
I still wasn’t convinced to buy them.
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GREENWASH ALERT!
Marcal Small Steps motto is “Paper from paper, not from trees”.
For over five decades, Marcal has been saving trees and reducing landfill by making its paper products from recycled paper. Marcal uses paper collected from curbs in residential neighborhoods in cities and towns across America; from the small blue baskets in office buildings, unwanted junk mail, and waste from printers; all in an effort to do something good.
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This year many people are trying to be more earth conscious but one major problem that many come up against during the holidays is how to wrap gifts in an eco-friendly manner. [read the full article...]
I think it’s happened to us all- the kid gets a hold of a pen or marker or even some paint…and it refuses to come off the skin even when scrubbing so hard you practically take the skin off. And we know that is neither is fun for the parent nor the child.
Finally someone, parents of course, invented a safe, natural product that “gets stuff off your skin”, Removeez. [read the full article...]
Here’s a fun book you may enjoy. It could inspire you with new ways to teach your child about living green. Or it may make a great gift for another parent that you know who could use some help in the eco-department.
Grow Your Own Tree Hugger: 101 activities to teach your child how to live green
by Wendy Rosenoff is full of activities, crafts and recipes that can easily teach children about the environment and about being green without being preachy.
Some of the activities sound like so much fun your kids won’t even know they’re learning. [read the full article...]
Clementine Art offers safe and natural art supplies for kids: soy crayons, soy crayon rocks, markers, paint, modeling dough and glue. all made with safe, natural, non-toxic ingredients. Perfect for little budding green artists. [read the full article...]
by ECP Editors on September 30, 2009 · 1 comment
by Micaela Preston is exactly what it says, a practical guide to going green.
by Anna Getty is a great book to help you get a head start on greening the winter holidays.