Need some last minute Halloween tips before the big day? Here’s a list of resources, crafts, and recipes that will help you create a spooky, fun, and green Halloween – even at the last minute.

Spooky eats & treats:
Healthy & Fun Halloween Treats
Last Minute DIY Organic Halloween Treats
Healthy Green Halloween Snacks
17 Halloween Cupcake Ideas
Where to get eco-friendly Halloween treats
Crafty fun:
Oodles of Free Recycled Halloween Craft Ideas
6 Eco-Friendly Halloween Crafts For Kids
5 spooky recycled crafts for Halloween

Halloween Crafts for Kids!
Extra tips for the greenest Halloween yet!:

Eco-Friendly Non-Edible Halloween Treats
Homemade Green Halloween Costumes for Babies
Green Your Halloween Party
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I recently heard about Container Gardening for Health: The 12 Most Important Fruits and Vegetables for Your Organic Garden, a book that covers the most important crops to grow organically based on the “Dirty Dozen” list. This is a list created by The Environmental Working Group that tells consumers which fruits and veggies are best and least important to buy organic. The EPA just updated the list in spring of 2009, so this book which came out also in the spring contains the most current Dirty Dozen info.

I like the idea, because not only are the Dirty Dozen list items …read more

October is Fair Trade month (oh so soon), and to celebrate you might want to grab some refreshing and sparkling organic and Fair Trade Santa Cruz TeaZers. TeaZers add a nice a carbonated twist to tea from the Fair Trade tea company, Choice Organic Tea. TeaZers add a splash of Santa Cruz Organic juice to each TeaZer for a subtle fruit juice tea. Flavors include Lemon, Raspberry, Pear and Passion fruit. My household recently tried them all, and here’s what we thought.

Product: Santa Cruz Organic TeaZer sparking teas, made with a unique blend of high quality, brewed organic green, white …read more

I’m going to be posting a review of Santa Cruz Organic’s peanut butter soon, but before that, I figured we’d take a closer look at the company.

Santa Cruz Organic has been selling all sorts of organic foods for more than 30 years now. They carry teas, peanut butter, juice, applesauce, sodas, dessert toppings and more. My son Cedar is a HUGE fan of their organic juices (shown above) and of course I like them too because they’re organic. Geez, I sound like a commercial. Actually though this is a very cool company. Some of this companies eco-perks include:
They’re organic: Santa …read more

If you’re not familiar with the “Dirty Dozen” – it’s a list created by The Environmental Working Group that lets consumers know which fruits and veggies are best and least important to buy organic. The dirty dozen are fruits and veggies that have a larger amount of pesticides in them when grown conventionally.

The group just released their newest version of the list and it’s available for download (handy for shopping trips).
This year the five worst conventional produce buys are…

Peaches
Apples
Bell Peppers
Celery
Nectarines

And the five safest conventional produce buys are…

Onions
Avocados
Sweet Corn
Pineapples
Mangos

How to use the list …read more