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Wuld you like an eco-friendly, healthier and fun costume for your Baby or Toddler this year? Put organic cotton next to their sensitive skin for an enjoyable Halloween and a no-rash treat! These organic onesies and t-shirts will bring out the smiles and the treats, no tricks involved. Made in the USA with colorgrown, organic cotton, there are no chemicals or dyes to cause any discomfort on your Halloween night.

The baby onesies are available in longsleeve or shortsleeve, sizes 3-18 months, and the t-shirts are available in 6-24 months and 2-4T. We even have designs for Twins! All of your little ones can wear unique baby onesies or t-shirts on Halloween with the many great designs to choose from.

These Halloween organic baby clothes for boys and girls will last. Pass them down or around to your friends, and keep giving a special organic Halloween treat to more babies and toddlers.

Your baby’s first Halloween is always the scariest. Don’t add to it with scratchy, chemical filled Halloween Costumes. Give the safe and comfortable feeling of organic cotton.

Do order in plenty of time to allow for delivery, and for your baby or toddler to enjoy wearing their Halloween organic clothes more than once this year.


 
Real food is fuel for the body -- and the planet. By following the green eaters' mantra -- eat seasonal, local, organic foods -- you can enjoy fresher, tastier foods and improve your personal health. According to one study, organic milk has 68 percent more beneficial Omega-3 fatty acids than conventional milk. Making green food choices also has global consequences. Buying local means supporting the local economy and reducing the greenhouse gas emissions required to get food from its origin to your plate. Buying fresh food means reducing packaging and energy used for processing. Choosing organic foods means helping promote organic agriculture and responsible land use. For healthy eating options check out our Organic Food.


The average woman absorbs more than 4 pounds of cosmetics during her lifetime. Guys, you're not off the hook.
Your skin -- the body's largest organ -- absorbs up to 60 percent of the products you put on it every day, from soaps to shampoos to sunscreens. Considering that most of us use about 10 different products daily, that can really add up. Choosing green personal care products often means using plant-based ingredients in place of petrochemicals, preventing these chemicals from being absorbed into your skin. Keep your grooming regimen on the level with our Health & Beauty products.


Making stuff takes lots (and lots and lots) of energy.
Every object you own -- your furniture, your clothing, your beer cans, your stuff -- comes from somewhere; every object has an environmental impact. Nothing simply comes from "the store." To help mitigate the footprint of your material life, choose goods made from green (or greener) materials, such as sustainably harvested wood, organic cotton, or repurposed and recycled materials. Your choices will help protect forests, habitat, clean water and biodiversity; ensure sustainable land-use practices; and reduce the amount of waste clogging up our landfills. Buying less stuff and second-hand stuff helps achieve this goal, too. See our Green Furniture.


Clean, renewable power is already available to everyone.
We use electricity to power our lights, computers, and televisions, but what happens before you flip the switch? Your electricity has to come from somewhere; more than half America's comes from coal-burning power plants, which also happen to be the country's largest source of air pollution. By signing up for a renewable energy program through your local utility, generating your own power, or purchasing renewable energy credits (also known as "green tags"), you contribute to our collective capacity for generating more clean power from wind, solar, and other sources and you help reduce demand for energy from more polluting sources. Learn more about how to make your electrical footprint lighter in Tree Hugger's How to Go Green: Electricity guide.


Better transportation means less global warming.
Anytime you choose to walk, skateboard or ride a bike, you totally eliminate the carbon dioxide and particulate emissions created by driving a gas- or diesel-powered car. You'll help slow global warming and help stave off our date with peak oil. Choosing greener options such as a train over air travel for long-distance trips can immensely reduce your carbon footprint. Get to the nitty-gritty in Tree Hugger's How to Go Green: Cars and How To Go Green: Public Transportation guides.


Nature Recycles Everything. So Should People.
Making proper use of the blue recycling bin has become an iconic action. Reducing the amount of stuff we consume is the first step (and the first word in the mantra reduce-reuse-recycle), finding constructive uses for "waste" materials is the second. Why? Nothing is ever really thrown "away" -- it all has to go somewhere. By recycling and reusing, we reduce the amount of waste that sits in landfills (where even biodegradable products often can't break due to lack or oxygen and sunlight). Recycling materials also saves energy compared to using virgin materials to create new products. Some materials, like aluminum and glass, can even be recycled without being "downcycled," or turned into a product of lesser quality. See Tree Hugger's  How to Go Green: Recycling guide for more details.


Your clothing choices impact more than just your appearance.
Making clothing involves a large amount of materials, energy, and labor, including the pesticides used to grow crops for textiles, the dyes and water used to color them, and conditions under which laborers work. By choosing eco-friendly clothing, purchasing organic over conventional cotton, one of the world's most chemically dependent crops, you also choose a better product that is easier on the soil and groundwater. How you care for your clothes - using cold water in the washing machine, eco-friendly detergents, and line-drying (at least part of the time) - can all reduce the impact of your wardrobe. Wearing second-hand styles helps diverts traffic to landfills, and in some cases - perhaps undurprisingly -- can be 95 percent more efficient that buying new. Learn more about greener choices in Tree Hugger's How to Go Green: Wardrobe and Laundry guides.


Water is not a renewable resource.
Clean water is perhaps the planet's most precious resource, and, with the increasing effects of global climate change, for many regions across the globe, our ability to have enough high-quality H20 on hand could likely to change in the near future. Being water conscious helps reduce strain on municipal treatment systems and ensures there's enough to go around. By shifting away from bottled water, we can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions (from shipping), the energy required to produce (petroleum-derived) plastic, and the volume of waste trucked to our landfills (from empty bottles). Have a peek at our reusable water bottles.


Greener goods are more humane.
Just as its required materials and energy, all "stuff" requires another common resource: the human kind. If you opt for green and ethical goods, you are often supporting local and global craftsmen and communities. Supporting "Fair Trade" products and fair labor practices ensures that goods-- from coffee to clothing, were not born in a sweatshop. Buying goods made in the U.S.A. (and preferably purchased nearby where they were made, which cuts down on transportation costs) means production practices are governed by strict labor laws.

There's nothing corny about peace, love, and understanding. When Dr. Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, the awarding committee recognized her accomplishments by saying, "Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment." Maathai, the founder of the Green Belt Movement (one of Planet Green's NGO partners), has helped the world connect the dots between women's rights, sustainable development, democracy, and world peace -- get the details in the TreeHugger Radio interview with Maathai. The connection between peace and the environment has been cemented by Nobel Prize Laureate Al Gore and the IPCC, who have driven home the points that global climate change is an issue of science, technology, human behavior, ethics and peace, and that one person's actions can truly make a difference. Equating the two -- peace and the environment -- allows us to understand the big picture and the manner in which we're all connected.

 
 
At first it was the money saving that drew me to attachment parenting. No crib...he could share my bed! Didn't need to spend money on a nursery, disposable diapers and all the gizmos and gadgets that all the parenting magazines say you need. But AP brought me so much more than saving money! I have so much love and joy in my parenting.

I have done it both ways. With my first born I did all the things I was told to do. Crib, bottles, you name it. My first son has turned out great but the emotions I felt when I let him cry in his crib and when I slept without him were overwhelming. 13 years later I had a bit more of an idea of what I wanted for my family. I do what I FEEL is right, not what the media says is right. Cloth diapering and Elimination Communication helped my son to be completely potty trained by 18 months. I wore him in my "pouch" at our family business until he was 17 months. I am not "extreme", just a really lovey dovey parent!

Rather than trusting our instincts and caring for our children the way that humans did for tens of thousands of years (and the way many other countries still do!), big businesses have led the push for buying "things" babies don't really need. Pampers spokesman T. Barry Brazelton began advocating "wait until a child is ready" to potty train. There's a lot of money to be made in disposable diapers, cribs, strollers, baby bouncers, walkers, playpens, electronic gadgets and movies to contain and entertain our children. Attachment Parenting doesn't require many consumer goods so it isn't great for business models based on disposable products.  Therefore, we should not be surprised that us AP parents as were reffered to as"extreme."  The motivation to perpetuate a detachment/ consumerist model of parenting is entrenched in the corporate need to sell ever more "stuff."

I am wondering if, despite probable success at selling a lot of copies of this issue, Time may have pushed too far and inadvertently opened a door for Attachment Parenting to "mainstream" America.  I've seen mothers posting all over the internet about joining together and rejecting the media-created "mommy wars."  I've seen more beautiful blog posts and articles promoting breastfeeding and attachment parenting this week than ever before. It is amazing for me to see just how much this one magazine article has brought these topics into the public spotlight!

I am optimistic that we are at a turning point. I believe people increasingly realize the dangers of too much consumption and overuse of technology.  With respect to child rearing, this realization can inspire the return to traditional practices such as baby wearing, breastfeeding, natural living, family bed, elimination communication and much more. I also believe that each family is entiled to do what ever works best for their own families. For some families that means a crib and I will still sell eco-friendly cribs and organic crib mattresses.

I'm glad to see a growing concern that the purchases we make are thoughtful, without exploitation, minimally impact our earth, and promote our and our families' health and well-being.  It is with these same priorities that I operate Lovin' Life Organics.