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Monday, September 25, 2006
Green HalloweenThere are plenty of sites that can offer you info on all the gross and spooky treats for Halloween. I thought I’d offer up a series of posts that might help you make some more environmentally and socially aware decisions for Halloween.
It’s a good opportunity to give kids a special treat that isn’t necessarily full of artificial chemicals or results from a lot fertilizers and pesticides being applied to the earth. And just perhaps child slaves weren’t used in the creation of it. But who wants to be that house on the street that gives out toothbrushes or quarters or apples? There must be products out there that can satisfy everyone. I’ll be posting for the next few weeks on the topic of different good tasting treats you can hand out to the kids, some that might even be affordable and available in your local area. If you want a top-to-bottom approach for the whole Green lifestyle, Siel at GreenLAGirl is going to be helping me out by posting about the big picture. She started today with the first in her series. She’ll cover the politics of chocolate, organic and fair trade issues and of course positive changes we can all incorporate into our lives. Here are a few of the organic and fair trade sweets I’ve reviewed to date. Not all are appropriate for handing out to Trick-or-Treaters, so I’ll make an effort to bring you more about those, but learning more about the brands that are available might help you make a decision at the store:
Endangered Species
Equal Exchange
Green & Black’s
Dagoba
Other Products:
I’ll have some hard candies, lollipops and more chocolates soon! 
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VOTE IN THE POLLDo you consider chocolate covered cookies or pretzels candy?
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22% (47)Yes but only if it's real chocolate, not yogurt.
10% (21)No
53% (114)I don't care what it's called
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Tough call.
Since Halloween is a kid’s holiday, I like to give them what they want, but it’s also a great opportunity to teach them and make converts.
What I don’t want is word of mouth spreading, with kids avoiding my house or, worse, pelting it with eggs or TP.
Also, I need to make sure that whatever candy’s left over is something *I* would like to eat!
I like the idea of a Green Halloween! Thanks!
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