North Goes Green

Archive for March, 2011

Do you love to have Birthday Parties for your child? As a kid- don’t you love to have friends over to celebrate and eat cake and ice cream? There are great ways to celebrate without adding to the waste stream. Here are some tips to Reduce your impact on the environment while have a super fun time!

Supplies: Use Preserve plates, cups & silverware for years of use at parties! They are made of recycled plastic right here in the USA ! Check out Preserve products here: Preserve the Party!

Decorations: Use items with low impact to the environment. Reduce, Re-use and Recycle as much as you can. Check out Green decorations and more here: Fun GREEN Party!

Food: Use organic ingredients to have the least impact. Organic cake mixes are easy to find these days and here are some great options! GOOD CAKE , YUMMO GREEN Cakes!, Save the Earth and EAT CAKE!

Gifts: If you child is of older age (8 and above) you may want to put a twist on gift giving. Request donations instead of gifts. Perhaps a birthday party to benefit the local food pantry or animal shelter? In lieu of a gift party goers bring cans of food as a donation. Reducing the waste of all the cardboard, paper and plastics used in making toys and packaging them. Most of us don’t need any more stuff so why not help others at your next Birthday party?

Green Party Ideas- check them out! And try and celebrate with family and friends for your Birthday and leave the refuse and all the rest of the “stuff” we really don’t need.

Health Teacher, Renee Matos, and the “North Planet Savers”, a student ecology group, have decided to work on making jewelry out of paper. Their jewelry will be for sale at the Family Dance on March 25th . Proceeds from the sales would be used to help victims of the Gulf Oil Spill.  We thank Ms. Matos and her students for such a great GREEN idea!