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Organic Style has some cute baby items, especially their gift baskets. The veggie teething rings are really well made and full of yummy organic cotton to chomp on. My kids have been playing with them for 17 months now and I will still look over and see someone with the green beans or the carrot. [...]

Laurie David and Cambria Gordon recently received the 2007 Green Earth Book Award in nonfiction for their children’s book The Down-To-Earth Guide to Global Warming. The award was given by the Newton Marasco Foundation, an organization that works to promote sustainability within the public and private sector.
This book is fun, engaging and chock [...]

In an age where body sprays promise to turn teenage boys into babe magnets and Celine Dion is the number one perfumer in the world it’s sometimes tough to breathe. For those of us with a sensitive snout (or lungs) it’s painful, sometimes even debilitating to deal with all these (mostly artificial) scents. If you’d [...]

I already have an Earth Day outfit picked out for myself (vintage jacket, organic cotton 7’s, recycled jellies from Melissa), but what about my faithful hound dog? I adopted my gorgeous cocker spaniel from a local rescue group three years ago and he loves nothing more than a day outside. But after a winter of [...]

Baby Bunch makes these too-cute new-parent’s gifts. They look like a bunch of flowers, but they are really organic cotton baby onesies, booties, hats and towels. Because they’re disguised as a bouquet, they can be given as is, rather than wrapped, saving resources at the same time!

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom started the fire. In March of 2007, Newsom passed the nation’s first plastic bag ban outlawing San Fran’s supermarkets and large retailers from offering customers non-biodegradable plastic bags.
Though Germany, South Africa, Ireland, Norway and Australia have long imposed restrictions on bag use, several countries and cities have recently jumped on [...]

When we first started to register for baby gifts we knew that we wanted to avoid being inundated with primary colored hunks of plastic that scream encouraging jargon (”great job!!” said the machine…) whilst playing a neon light show that could stimulate anyone into a state of ADD. Now that my kids are playing more [...]

What’s the funniest caption you can think of for this cartoon? Leave your suggestions in the comments section below.
I will pick the winner, who will receive a really cool Starter Kit for Change, which contains all sorts of goodies that will motivate and educate, including fair-trade hot chocolate, a really cool tote, a tree [...]

It’s the day after Christmas. Aside from feeling fat and hungover, you’re probably wondering how you’ll get rid of all the terrible gifts you’ve collected–the gizmo you’ll never use, the book you’ll never read, the sweater you wouldn’t be caught dead wearing. Rather than toss that hideous scarf or Ricky Martin album in the trash, [...]

This year, to enjoy the holidays, we are minimizing gift-giving and enjoying time together. Here are some simple ways we are doing this:
~Clearing out old stuff and donating it to Goodwill and shelters
~Enjoying warm cups of organic vanilla and spice tea
~Heading out for a hike
~Lighting the soy Jack Frost candles and turning off the lights [...]