Our friends over at Wear the Earth dish out the goods on how to make October a little more eco-friendly – and your Halloween a lot greener! Check out our recent review of their fabulous shop, and read on for their tips, too!

• E-mail party invites rather than snail-mail them. There are some great ghoulish Free e-mail greetings online.
• Make your own costume or buy one at a second-hand shop. An old sheet still makes a great ghost.
• Trick or Treat with a reusable bag.
• Walk instead of driving. If you must drive try car-pooling.
• Look for locally grown pumpkins for carving & apples for bobbing and other seasonal fruits and veggies
• If you don’t already compost, Halloween is a great time to start. You can add post-Halloween jack-o-lanterns to your compost bin, along with fallen leaves, food scraps, and other organic, biodegradable yard and household waste. Compost creates excellent soil for your garden
• Teach your children to keep candy wrappers in their re-usable trick-or-treat bags until they return home, or to dispose of them in trash cans along their route. Preventing candy wrappers from becoming Halloween litter on the street is the right way to treat the environment. Take along an extra bag when you take the kids out treat-or-treating, and pick up litter along the way to help clean up the neighborhood.
• Make use of all pumpkin parts. After carving a pumpkin, make sure to save the seeds. Bake them and serve them to party guests or feed them to our fine feathered friends, the birds.
• Candy…No Halloween is complete without CANDY! There are plenty of healthy candy bars on the market these days. From organic chocolate to organic lollipops—available online and from local organic groceries, health food stores, or consumer cooperatives. Try honey sticks or fruit leather at health food stores or tea shops. These organic candies can satisfy your sweet tooth without compromising your health, and they are produced using methods that don’t damage the environment.
• Choose treats that use little or no packaging .
• Whenever possible, buy locally produced treats from local merchants.
• Experience nature. Visit a pumpkin farm. Pick fresh apples. Talk a long walk outside. Look up at the sky. Notice the moon. Enjoy your planet.

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