droolicious : green living

An Eco-Friendly Baby Gift Bag

Lisa Estall — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:24:00 GMT

Looking for an eco-friendly baby gift? Tread Light Gifts feature gift baskets that include organic, natural, recycled, and sustainable products. Click to find out what's in it!...

Their Eco Baby Kit includes an organic onesie, an organic beret and socks, animal rattle,a Green Baby Book and a Baby Food Mill.

These items are all included in a 100% organic cotton sport sack with a plantable gift tag.

The Eco Baby Kit is $89.95 and sold at treadlightgifts.com

Handmade and Eco-Friendly Bibs

Lisa Estall — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:34:00 GMT

This handmade Rikrak Blue and Red Circles Bib is very different and would make a really nice baby shower gift. It’s reversible and made of quilt with a solid colored back and a modern design on the front.

You can adjust a Rikrak bib to fit both a 3-month-old and a toddler. A plus is that they are also eco-friendly.

Click to see the Rikrak White Flowers Bib.

Rikrak bibs are priced at $21 each.

Buy them at Fawn and Forest

Welcome to My Eco-Friendly Doll House

Lisa Estall — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:22:00 GMT

One day I want to get a dollhouse for my daughter. What’s great is now there are ones that are eco-friendly!

Wonderworld’s Eco-Friendly Wooden Doll House is made of rubber-wood and decorated with water-based, non-toxic paint. It iincludes a recycling...

trash can, solar panels, a bicycle, as well as the family and the room pieces.

Why not teach the young ones how to be more Green with this toy?

This dollhouse is only sold online at Toys R Us. Price is $129.99

Green Tea, Thumbs Part of Green Toys' Spring '08 Line

Aaron Burgess — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:03:00 GMT

A while back, we covered San Francisco-based Green Toys' venture into corn-based bioplastic playthings -- well, the company's resources seem to have changed a bit since then, but the output is as green as ever. This 27-piece Green Toys Cookware and Dining Set ($39.95 at Rabbit Kinney) is part of a new line of recycled-plastic toys that also includes a Tea Set, an Indoor Gardening Kit, and a Sand Play Set. Though it's not corn-derived (the actual material is high-density polyethylene, or HDPE), each set is made in California using recycled milk containers as its primary material. The toys also feature no external coating (and pose no lead-paint risks) and undergo testing to ensure no traceable amounts of Phthalates or BPA.

And thus concludes today’s chemistry lesson – for more information on Green Toys, including info on where to find them locally, visit the company's site.

Green Me, You, Them With a GreenDimes Kit

Aaron Burgess — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:03:00 GMT

Earth Day is still a few months off in the horizon, but if GreenDimes has its way, you could help to eliminate literally tons of waste by then. The Silicon Valley-based company offers two online services: Free Me! ($20), which vows to eliminate up to 90% of your real-world junk mail (no more catalogs, yay!) and plants 10 trees on your behalf; and Green Me! ($36; pictured above), which pairs the junk-mail-killing, tree-planting base service with a kit designed to get you and yours on the road toward a greener lifestyle.

I'm digging the latter because it's packed with stuff I'll actually use, and also because it includes a book from one of my kids' favorite series, Mercer Mayer's Little Critter. I'm also digging the transparency of GreenDimes' site: The company uses a real-time stats counter to show how much junk mail it's stopped: to date, over 3.1 million pounds' worth. Take that, Pottery Barn Kids!

Specifically, here's the loot included with Green Me!: In addition to the Free Me! service (which does let you stay on catalog lists you actually enjoy), you get a reusable ChicoBag; an American Apparel tee in your choice of size and color; two compact fluorescent light bulbs; and a book, Mercer Mayer's Little Critter: My Earth Day Surprise. Slip into your shirt, pile recyclables in your bag, show the kids how to change a bulb to save energy, and end the day with a good read: voila! instant family project.

Into Composting? This Little Piggy's Doo-Doo Will Make Your Garden Grow

Aaron Burgess — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Composting your kitchen waste may be gross on the front end, but that's just the reason kids will take to it; and with a gizmo like the $209 RolyPig -- a swine-shaped composter that "poops" out beneficial garden compost 12 to 15 weeks after first gobbling your scraps -- kids won't be able to resist going green.

If you're an urban dweller, RolyPig gives you extra incentive to start composting: It's compact and movable (you turn it on the spot every three weeks), and its completely enclosed, odor- and pest-free body is designed to circumvent cities' open-compost-pile ordinances. A RolyPig insulating blanket is in the works, but if you keep it covered during the colder months and aim it at the winter sun, you'll have a sweet pile of black gold ready for the garden come spring.

Check out the video to learn more about RolyPig's many clever features: