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Still Christmas Shopping for the Tots? Izzit’s Top 5 Green Baby Gifts

Everyone loves to shower babies — and new parents — with presents. Luckily, there are many earth-friendly gift options that are adorable, fun and safe.

For the wee ones on your gift list, consider these five toys that are equal parts cute and eco-conscious:

Green Toys Recycling Truck for Toddlers

This bright green recycling truck by Green Toys Inc., gives your little tyke first-hand recycling experience. Green Toys prides itself on making toys from recycled plastic and environmentally friendly materials which the company says includes “the safest, cleanest plastics around.”

Made from recycled milk jugs, the toy includes a movable recycling bed, an open-and-shut rear door and no metal axles. It’s appropriate for ages 1 and up. Read more »

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Can the Snowboard Industry Go Green?

Eco-Friendly Snowboards

While snowboarding may not be the most eco-friendly sport out there – especially the lift-served, made-snow variety – there are some snowboard companies going all out to make a difference. Companies are raising awareness of the threat that climate change is posing to our winter wonderlands, helping riders find the resorts that are putting some green towards being green, and working to make their products as sustainable as possible.  After all, it’s in their interest to keep the snow falling!

In 2007, professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones, formed Protect our Winters (POW); an organization aimed at bringing the winter sports community together to focus on initiatives that will have a direct impact on the climate change that has become such a threat to our mountains and glaciers. In other words, to prevent the official rise of grassboarding as a sport. Our options are becoming more limited, as smaller resorts that rely on only natural snow are being forced to close. Beyond the future of the sport, in many places snow pack is a natural storage system for water used to irrigate agricultural lands, come snow melt in spring. As glaciers recede, and snow accumulations lessen, many people who depend on them for food and water are threatened. Read more »

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Knu To You Kiddo

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This recently reintroduced reproduction red rocker is ragin’?  If your toddler could alliterate, this is what she’d say.  Seriously.

Knu, a sustainably-focused modern furniture manufacturer in Michigan, has indeed introduced a reproduction of the 60′s classic kids rocker (predictably) called the Red Ball Rocker.  Which is to say they’ve restarted production of a very cool rocking-horse substitute that eschews the long horse face and faux fur for a gleaming red ball and chic design.  They’ve also replaced the potential ‘made for children by children’ vibe with ‘made in the USA from FSC certified materials by a company that geniunely cares about the environment’ vibe.  So how ’bout that pardner. Pretty nice indeed ma’am. Read more »

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