Green Your Halloween!

 

How can you incorporate sustainability into your life beyond the paint you put on your walls, or the toilet you choose to install? Try greening your holiday celebrations! Corey Colwell Lipson and her mom Lynn Colwell have written a book called Celebrate Green which is an incredible resource for ideas on how to make holidays healthy and eco-friendly. They started with thinking about Halloween.

 

Several years ago, Corey started a national grassroots initiative called Green Halloween®. The goal: to spread creative ideas for tackling the waste and unhealthy habits typically associated with this plastic, chemical, and sugar heavy event.

 

It is easier to green your Halloween than you might think! Here are some of her great ideas:

 + Instead of giving away conventional candy, consider items such as pencils made from recycled newsprint, temporary tattoos sporting eco-savvy themes, or 100% fruit leathers. Even organic lollipops are better for children and the planet and some come in compostable wrappers.

+ Instead of buying a costume this year, see if you can make one out of materials you have lying around your house, can borrow from a friend or can find at a thrift store. Or, host a costume swap with your neighbors.

+ Decorate your front lawn, porch and home with items from nature. Pumpkins, gourds and hay are all great, green items that can be composted when November 1st rolls around.

 

For more inspiration visit www.celebrategreen.net, or come meet Corey in person at a Green Halloween party on October 8, at our Seattle Ecohaus showroom! Hosted by Biznik  and a whole host of great food and beverage sponsors, this will be a fun-filled networking event – and a great opportunity to pick up tons of simple ideas for making Halloween a healthy and happy event for your family – AND the planet!

 

This event is open to Biznik members as well as the general public. RSVP via BizNik or email Tracy(at)treadlightgifts.com. Click here for more information.

 

 Our Seattle Ecohaus showroom is located at 4121 1st Ave S, Seattle, 98134.

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