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Help the environment and have a Green Halloween

By Inge

Last updated 22/10/2008 23:19:44

Help the environment and have a Green Halloween

Even though I found this on a US orientated site, it is very relevant for all of us...

The economy may have gone to pot and the country's future leadership may be wildly unclear, but there's one thing we can count on: Halloween.

Yes, October 31 is a holiday of certainty, full of ringing doorbells, sweet treats, and tiny ghosts and witches (or, more likely, Kung Fu Pandas and Hannah Montanas).

But All Hallow's Eve has a spooky flip side, laced with refined sugar, vinyl costumes, and other horrors that can give you the eco-shivers. If you want a greener fright night, here's how to start.

Here you find the full article http://www.grist.org/advice/how/2008/10/14/?source=food

and more on Green Halloween here http://www.greenhalloween.org/




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