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Go Green! Fashion Your Own Chip Clips
Ever since Party suggested using wine bottles as darling water holders, I've been wanting to share an eco-friendly tip of my own. If you're like me, you've got a surplus of plastic clamped clothes hangers sitting in your closet. I often return hangers to the dry cleaners, as a way to recycle them — but I save the ones with clamps, and turn them into chip clips.
Go Green! Turn Old Wine Bottles Into Water Holders
Plastic water bottles produce a lot of waste; one way to cut back is to use larger, refillable bottles for drinking water at home. This works well in an area like San Francisco where the tap water is drinkable and delicious.
Since I entertain a lot, I thought it would be eco-chic to make my own!
Baby Bump: Liz Lange Goes Organic
We've raved about the high-quality and chic practical duds of Liz Lange's line for Target. The designer is now helping us go organic with a handful of eco-friendly items she added to the line in time for Earth Day. The ultra soft t-shirts, hoodies, and pull-on pants come in solids as well as a cute butterfly and flower pattern.
Ecotot: Why Kids Are Voting For Earth
If you've got an eco-conscious tot, there's no time like the present to get them involved in saving the environment. In honor of Earth Day, which is approaching, show your youngster this darling video — a compilation of all the reasons that children want to make the world a better place — and initiate a green conversation. What does your wee one want to save?
Have We Gone Too Far With the Eco-Friendly Baby Items?
We are raising the most Eco-conscience generation to date. Last weekend, Saturday Night Live made light of our earth-friendliness with a parody diaper commercial for "Chewable Pampers" that are flavorful, easily digestible and all natural. While the ad certainly took the movement to an extreme, it was a funny commentary on an issue many hold near and dear to their hearts.
ECOWEEN: Go Green For Halloween!
Like most parents, lilsugar wants the world to be a better place for our children, so we're going green for Halloween. This month we're giving you the tools to provide the thrills of dressing up and indulging in treats for your children in an eco-friendly fashion with ECOWEEN! Keeping with with the theme reuse, renew, and recycle — stay tuned for fun posts on the following:
Costume Swap Party — This prior-to-Halloween-party is costume required and allows children to swap their old costume for one that is "new-to-them" from another guest.
Ecotot: Green Tees
Nothing is better than a lil green gift. Outfit the cutie pies in your life with 100 percent organic cotton shirts hand screen printed with water-based inks. Eco ike tees ($22 - $24) can be laundered and then line dried to save energy.
Sleepy Hat: Kid Friendly or Are You Kidding?
Most lil ones take time out of their days to nap, but there's a product that may help you send them off to slumber quicker than a lullaby. The Downtime Sleepy Hat ($22) is an organic cap that parents can tuck over the baby's head and eyes. The flip down mask blocks out light and visual stimulants.
Lil Tip: Go Green with Diapers.com
For every family that lives in a three story walk up or isn't overjoyed with weekly jaunts to Costco, there's Diapers.com, the one stop online shop where you can order baby goodies (even green ones!) to be delivered to your door in a few days. So stock up on diapers, wipes, baby wash, bottles, cups, organic food, mommy products and other merchandise without ever leaving the house or having to clear out your trunk. And, if you're traveling this summer, you can have your order shipped to your destination so you don't have to worry about paying for extra bags on airlines.
EcoTot: Keeping Baby Natural
So many baby care products are on the market claiming to be organic or natural, that it sometimes feels like you need to be a scientist to figure out what is best for your child.
The Natural Products Association just announced plans for a new certification program that will identify truly natural products with the seal pictured here.
Products obtaining the seal must be made up of at least 95 percent natural ingredients (and the other five percent must be determined to not be harmful to humans), feature ingredients that come from a purposeful, renewable/plentiful source found in nature and include processes that do not dilute the purity of the ingredients.
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