Articles tagged “Green Halloween”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Treat or Treat? Try These Halloween Candy Alternatives By Leslie Billera IN Food & Health Oct 22 2008 Why not plan ahead for a healthier and greener Halloween this season? With these delicious Halloween treats, kids won't even realize that they are good for them—and better for the planet! + READ MORE

Make A Halloween Cobweb With Cotton Balls By Elizabeth Seward IN Home & Garden Oct 22 2008 You know that holiday coming up? Halloween? Yeah. One of the fun parts of Halloween is Halloween decorating. From jack-o-lanterns to creepy crawling spider toys, it's fun to decorate for Halloween. So why not make a cobweb out of your cotton balls? + READ MORE

Google's Energy-Savings Calculator, Discounted Halloween Candy and Why to Work From Home By Jessica Root IN Home & Garden Oct 21 2008 Save money and energy using Google's Halloween-themed energy savings calculator. Still have to stock up on Halloween candy? Score a good deal on Yummy Earth Organic Lollipops! All this and more, today on TreeHugger. + READ MORE

Decorate with Nature, and More Eco Friendly Halloween Tips By Elizabeth Seward IN Home & Garden Oct 20 2008 Halloween's a favorite holiday of mine. Something about the crisp autumn air combined with the fun of costumes and candy always makes me excited. But with all of the individually wrapped candy and one-time-use costumes that go around this time of the year, Halloween can be a rather wasteful holiday. + READ MORE

How to Throw a Spooky Eco-Fab Halloween Party By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Oct 15 2008 Halloween: it's an excuse to be someone else for an evening, and who doesn't want to do that once in a while. Hiding behind that ever impressive costume allows people to really cut loose, so it's a great reason to throw a party. This year make your Halloween get together a greener shindig by serving your guests only the best. + READ MORE

Make Your Own Cheaper, Better Halloween...Mask By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Oct 15 2008 Halloween only comes once a year and, as such, can create a buy it, use it one-time, dispose it attitude. Instead, this year, make your own cheaper, better Halloween...Mask. + READ MORE

Make a Halloween Costume You Can't Find at Wal-Mart By Sara Novak IN Fashion & Beauty Oct 15 2008 I'm not advocating forcing your child to be the same character every year for Halloween, but what I am saying is going to Walmart to buy a prepackaged plastic costume is not only a meager excuse for a costume, it also produces a ton of unnecessary waste that will just end up in your local landfill. This year skip the convenience and think ahead of time for both your children and the planet. + READ MORE

Make Your Own Cheaper, Better Halloween Costume By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Oct 14 2008 Halloween only comes once a year and, as such, can create a buy it, use it one-time, dispose it attitude. Instead, this year, make your own cheaper, better Halloween...Costume. + READ MORE

Make Your Own Cheaper, Better Halloween...Witch Costume By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Oct 13 2008 Halloween only comes once a year and, as such, can create a buy it, use it one-time, dispose it attitude. Instead, this year, make your own cheaper, better Halloween...Witch Costume. + READ MORE

4 Easy Eco Friendly Halloween Tips By Josh Peterson IN Food & Health Sep 15 2008 Halloween is all about conspicuous consumption, and unlike Christmas, it does nothing to hide this fact. On October 31st, children and child-like adults dress up in costumes and wander the streets begging for candy. Remember those old vinyl costumes with the one-size-fits-all mask that held to your face by a thin piece of unprotected elastic? First of all, vinyl is a problematic material and probably shouldn't be worn as clothing. Secondly, have you ever seen anyone reuse one of those costumes? By the end of Halloween night, those flimsy suits were most likely in tatters. Those costumes might actually be the least sustainable product on the planet. + READ MORE

Rid Your Kid's Room of Monsters By Lynda Fassa IN Home & Garden Jun 17 2008 Those things that go bump in the night are often my shins whacking into some stray piece of furniture (or even one that's always been there, but seems so utterly out-of-place at 2 in the morning.) + READ MORE

Save Those Seeds! By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Oct 31 2007 When you are carving your Halloween pumpkin today, save the seeds to make yourself a little snack. Toss the seeds with 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil per 1 cup of seeds and sprinkle with a little salt. + READ MORE