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Ideal Bite serves up free, bite-size daily tips for liven' green with a side of personality. Now the company is introducing Mama Bite to help new and seasoned moms in their plight to keep it green. Read on to find out how the Web site plans to help everyday moms go green....
:: Foodies, rejoice! Get inspired to host a local, organic Thanksgiving feast with the help of Alice Waters, Dan Barber and Mario Batali.
:: Save money--and waste--by making homemade dog toys for Fido this holiday season.
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Designer Ross Menuez reinvents a childhood classic with his Kuma Bears, a series of psychedelically patterned teddies so vibrant that the Grateful Dead Bears pale in comparison. Made from 100 percent organic cotton canvas and stuffed with organic cotton filling, the Kuma Bears are hand-silk-screened using eco-friendly (and worry not, parents, child-safe) soy-based inks.
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While drug companies continue to say its not happening, school nurses around the country are saying more and more parents are at a loss for solutions, reports MSNBC. One nurse even reported a parent, whose child has been battling head lice all summer, was extremely frustrated and unsure what to do next. So why are common medications like Nix, Rid, Ovide and Kwell still prescribed? Simply because they do work on some cases, some of the time.
Etsy is holding a contest to pick web readers' favourite choices of handmade children's items in seven different categories: furniture, toys, eco-friendly, art, home decor, clothes and accessories. All are made for children by independent designers. Etsy is that wonderful website that features all things handmade to buy and sell by artists and artisans. Everyone can vote for their favourite items and win a chance to go on an Etsy shopping spree--now that's a fun prize.
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You can probably see one from where you're standing right now. A small child, toy in hand. Their glazed-over eyes as they absentmindedly put that building block or plastic action figure in their mouth and begin to gum and drool all over it. Not so fast, says President Bush, who last week signed into law a bill banning six toxic phthalates (pronounced: tha-lates) from children's products.
Inhabitat is a must-read architecture and design site packed with information about new housing, architecture, transportation and design products. What happens when its editor-in-chief gets pregnant...Inhabitots is born. It's a new website with a baby and parenting focus; its motto: “Sustainable design for the next generation“. They say that "becoming a parent does not constitute having to sacrifice style" which is a bit optimistic (try that line out after a sleepless night with a cranky baby) but their postings so far have some pretty cool stuff.
Every dog loves a bone, but your pet will love it even more when it is an environmentally friendly Eco Bone from West Paw Design. My dog has been loving this great plush toy for weeks now.
In case you find your friends and relations among the legions who just can’t seem to get enough of Hannah Montana, consider the fact that a recent study indicates many of the items they’ve grown attached to have significant levels of lead.
Of course there’s been plenty of news in the last year about the presence of lead in toys like Thomas the Engine, so perhaps this just shouldn’t be that surprising. But it seems to me that with all of the revelations we’ve had in the last year over lead, the folks pitching stuff bearing one of the most saleable faces in Tweenland today should have done a better job testing the products they put on the shelves.
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When you send the milk jug in your fridge on to the recycler, it’s often the last you’ll think of it. But Green Toys, Inc. is busy recycling them for profit into their line of classic children’s toys. And as they point out on their website, every pound of milk jugs recycled means an energy savings equivalent to 3,000 AAA batteries, three weeks worth of the electricity needed to power a TV or enough to run your laptop for the entire month ahead.
Not to mention the fact that they’ll also provide a great way to teach your kids about the positive benefits of recycling waste products into something fun.
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When you send the milk jug in your fridge on to the recycler, it’s often the last you’ll think of it. But Green Toys, Inc. is busy recycling them for profit into their line of classic children’s toys. And as they point out on their website, every pound of milk jugs recycled means an energy savings equivalent to 3,000 AAA batteries, three weeks worth of the electricity needed to power a TV or enough to run your laptop for the entire month ahead.
Not to mention the fact that they’ll also provide a great way to teach your kids about the positive benefits of recycling waste products into something fun.
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When toy industry veteran designer and parent Chris Clemmer got together with a couple of friends and realized there’s a mint to be made in eco-toys of one form or another they sat down and came up with Sprig Toys. A new line of kid-powered toys working to ensure traditional battery-powered toys go the way of the dinosaurs by harnessing all that pent up energy your child’s been carrying around....
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