If you are looking for a great sugar free organic apple sauce for your little one (or even for you!) ... It comes in this adorable packaging that has a squeeze top for moms and dads to easily wiggle the applesauce into a bowl. Or, if there isn’t a spoon in sight, an older child could suck it right out of the top.
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Teaching kids about the environment through game-play is nothing new, but in today's online gamer society, it's important to put the lesson-learning in the right format. Gamer kids now have something to play that makes sense both on and off the computer screen.
In a character-driven adventure game, Emerald Island is a virtual world where children are challenged to save the island from environmental destruction. Designed for kids ages 6 to 12, the game has an evolving plotline created by the kids in which environmental activism is the key ingredient. ...
I liked this cartoon by High Moon over at Japan for Sustainability. I never thought about it quite this way before. Ranking the 3 Rs in order of importance, they give Reduce the first place, followed by Reuse and a third place for Recycle. Or should they all rank the same?
JFS also has a cute website for kids, called Create Your Future. Do have a look!...
Who could resist a face like that! So cute. Or his tee-shirt that says " I give a hoot". They are both, baby and tee, courtesy of Inhabitot, TreeHugger's favourite new baby design website. The shirt is made out of 100% organic cotton, printed by hand with eco-friendly, water-based inks. It features their mascot, the green owl, and has a nice green message for the world.
Photo credit: Global Green
Global Green, Hollywood's favorite environmental non-profit, is showing they have the substance to back the style: last week, they launched their pilot program to create five green schools serving low income children in the Los Angeles area. Along with Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), Global Green unveiled two of the finished projects with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Of course, the ribbon was green. Pics of the school after the jump....
Image courtesy of Scrap Kins
A new website for kids called the Scrap Kins has just launched. It’s an innovative, fun site focused on getting kids to think about recycling via a cast of engaging, friendly monsters who live in a recycling center—the Scrap Kins. The Kins’ brainchild is illustrator and designer Brian Yinnish, who found inspiration for the characters from his own childhood drawings. ...
Photo courtesy of Captain Ozone
Calling Captain Ozone
Perhaps what the modern environmental movement needs is more masked, spandex clad superheroes who make public appearances perched atop latrines lashed to the roofs of cars. Or who chop through Petrol signs with hemp oil powered chainsaws. These are merely a couple of the (semi) heroic deeds done by the enigma of environmental activism that is Captain Ozone....
The future milk bottle – made from recycled paper. The GreenBottle has developed a green solution to milk containers, to replace plastic milk bottles. The outer shell is made from recycled paper, which can be further recycled, or if left will simply decompose within a matter of weeks. Greenbottle consumes about a third of the energy used to make a plastic bottle and has a carbon footprint that is 48% lower than plastic.
Do you know which line Seuss removed from his book The Lorax? Hint: It's about Lake Erie and was spoken by one of the
photo: The Green School
Read more: An innovative new sustainable school opens in Bali. Students from all over the globe learn the latest in green living while living in paradise....
Fake Plastic Fish: Affluence: Sustaining the flow by Beth Terry
"Having affluence means that the good things in life flow toward you. But if affluence is flow, then do those of us lucky enough to have been born into great (relative) wealth have a responsibility to keep the waters moving, to sustain (our word from last month) the flow? Or is it our right to dam it up and stop it, thinking we can keep all the goodies for ourselves?"
Solar powered Hello Kitty chargers sound adorable, right? And the little one just has to have every piece of Hello Kitty merchandise there is—it’s part of the collector’s set! She needs them all! Even the overwhelmingly pointless, waste-producing products like this Hello Kitty Disposable Solar Powered Cell Phone Charger.
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