Friday Favorites: Green Halloween
Halloween is less than two weeks away so this week’s Friday Favorites is filled with some of the most ghoulishly green tips for your trick-or-treating little pumpkins.
Quick Ideas:
Buy locally grown pumpkins: Picking out the right pumpkin is vital to a Happy Halloween and a visit to your local farmer brings even more to the seasonal experience. Resist the urge to just grab any old gourd from a big box store and stop at a local farm to take in the sights, sounds and smells of a hometown pumpkin growing operation.
Bob for organic apples: Having a Halloween party with this classic splash maker? Be sure the goblins are diving for organically grown apples to avoid pesticides and chemicals from ruining the fun. Got a local grower? That’s even more in the Green Halloween spirit.
Don’t be scared of creativity: Avoid the expense and waste of mass-produced decorations by using your creativity. Anything goes at Halloween so use what you’ve got around the house, garden and inside your imagination to create the Halloween backdrop of your dreams.
In-depth Halloween Fun:
Tricks and Treats for Halloween: Halloween should give you some good scares, not actually anything to worry about. For a safe and eco-friendly holiday, try these tips from Sierra Club.
Five Super-simple steps to Green Trick-or-Treating: Getting your little ghosts and goblins ready for Halloween while attempting to minimize your impact might seem scarier than global warming, but it’s so simple: you’re probably already doing at least one of these things from Green Options.
Green Halloween: Bag the Habit: Before you send your little monsters scampering off into the night trolling for candy, be sure to deep-six disposable paper and plastic loot sacks in favor of hardier totes and buckets they can reanimate year after year. Here are some devilish ideas we’ve scared up from TreeHugger.
Green Halloween: Ghoulish CFLs: Energy inefficiency may spook your party guests, but you can still cast a frightful glow with orange and black mini compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) at TreeHugger.
Keep Halloween Fair: Halloween should be scary, but only for a day. Unfortunately, holiday treats can contribute to a witch’s cauldron of frightening problems that persist long after the masks come off at The Green Guide.
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