Ethical & Sustainable Toys
As an eco-friendly adult you do all you can to ensure your green credentials are up to date – recycling, energy-saving light bulbs, fairtrade coffee and chocolate etc. But how about sustainable toys for the children in your life? How ethical are the toys you give to the kids? And would an ethical toy make it onto a child’s wish list in the first place? In this article we’ll discuss ethical toys and find out what makes a toy ‘green’.
The ethical toy debate
The toy industry, which is said to worth around £8 billion, has long been criticised for its lack of environmental awareness. However, that hasn’t stopped adults from splashing the cash. By the time the average British child reaches the age of 16, they will have owned around £11,000 worth of toys. It’s impossible for all those toys to have been made from sustainable materials or be ethically sound, so what’s being done to improve the situation?
The answer has, until recently, been very little. The mass market for cut-price toys lends itself to huge industrialisation leading to outsourcing and then questionable labour rights for the workforce who produce the products. Then there’s the materials used in manufacture.
Top Recycled Gifts for 2010
What do we mean by recycled gifts? Well, we’re not talking about those gifts you received for Christmas and now want to pass on to someone else – that’s re-gifting (and not something that should be condoned!). Recycled gifts are presents you can buy which are produced using recycled materials.
As you head into the new year, it’s a great opportunity to evaluate just how eco-friendly you are and make changes to maximise your green potential. Recycling is something we can all be part of with very little effort, and that goes for giving gifts too.
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Relaxing on a sun drenched beach is a top holiday pastime, but it’s often confined to the tourist heavy peak seasons. For those seeking some winter sunshine, or perhaps looking to get away from the crowds and save a bit of cash at the same time, out of season holidaying is the answer. It doesn’t have to involve travelling half way across the globe either. There’s a good variety of year-round destinations waiting to be discovered closer to home, where warm weather and some great cheap hotels can be found.
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We’ve all heard the hullabaloo about global warming and climate change. And whether you believe it or not, the fact still remains that you can save on your utility bills and help do your bit against pollution by undertaking some simple changes in and around your home. This can include installing Double glazed windows – where two sheets of glass are separated by a thin vacuum (or gas-filled space) to reduce the amount of cool or warm air entering or leaving your house. Double glazing can mean in winter your heater is not wasting its time by warming the air only to have it escape through the glass in your windows. Or, cool air filtering into your house won’t need to be heated, thus decreasing your bills. The reverse applies in summer. The cool air is kept in, and the warm outside air is kept out. When you think about it, it makes sense. Even if you don’t care much for saving the planet, you will more than likely care for the money leaking from your pocket – and double glazing can help stem that flow.
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Many people decide to have psychic email readings when they are desperate for answers to difficult situation in their lives, this unfortunately puts an unrealistic expectation on the psychic and their abilities. What most of people need to be aware of is that psychics are only human, and cannot tell you something just because you want it to be that way.
But it’s little wonder that some may have unrealistic expectations about a psychic reading when you consider all the advertising hype on television and in the newspapers. Many ads announce how having an accurate psychic reading can solve just about any problem you may have in your life. Really!
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How To Have An Ethical Christmas
We often hear that the real meaning of Christmas has been lost and yet the festive shopping bonanza continues to reinforce that statement. The economy demands more growth but our lust for materialism has a price – we’re consuming natural resources at an unsustainable rate and we’re exploiting workers in underdeveloped countries.
But we don’t have to cancel Christmas to turn things around, we just need to think, act and buy in a responsible manner. Here are a few ethical Christmas ideas and gifts for the holiday season.
‘Tis the season to be ethical
It’s true that we are beginning to live our lives in a more ethical way and so Christmas shouldn’t be any different. In fact, it’s the ideal time to focus on what really matters in life. With a little thought and planning, you can do your bit for the environment and those people who are less fortunate.
Ethical Christmas Gifts For Children
Christmas is the most exciting time of the year for children and by now most kids will have compiled a long list of presents they’d like to receive from Santa. This is great for parents and adults who want to buy the right gift as they’re never short for ideas, but in this world of mass consumerism where most children have far too many toys to be begin with, it can be great to give an alternative gift. Ethical Christmas gifts for children can be fun, educational and original while also giving something back to less fortunate communities or not taking away from the planet’s depleting natural resources.
Ethical Christmas Gifts for Women
Whether you’re buying for your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister or best mate, the ideal Christmas present is the one you put a lot of thought into. It can be terrifying to shop for women (especially if you’re male!) but sometimes it’s just a matter of buying something that is either practical or purely for pleasure. If you’re working your way through that shopping list, consider the benefits of buying ethical Christmas gifts this year.
Even in today’s economic climate, many women have enough disposable income to buy what they want and when they want it. That makes buying a gift even tougher unless you can persuade her not to go shopping for a few months. The key to buying a Christmas gift for the woman in your life is to find something unusual or unique so that means tracking down products she won’t have already seen.
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