Recycle that holiday wrapping paper!

Within the next day or so, you will be wrapping your gifts for the Holidays and unless you have a trick up your sleeve, you will be using paper wrapping paper. There are alternate “green” ways to wrap gifts without filling up our landfills with holiday wrapping paper and cute ways to decorate gifts and save money.

You can wrap with scarves, and simply tie up. Wrap a bottle of wine in a newspaper, forget the bows this year! Use anything from paper bags to leftover wallpaper, and cut out images from magazines, comics, children’s drawings or old greeting cards to give your package an artistic flair. Decorate the gift with sprigs of berries, branches, shells and pinecones. Tie on raffia or yarn to add to the décor! Put your gift(s) in a recycle bag that you buy from the grocery store, it might encourage them to use it.

OK, so the gifts have been opened and you see a room full of wrapping paper, what now?

• After the holidays, use the wrapping paper to wrap your child’s books
• Use wrapping paper to cover a cork board and hang on the wall.
• Use the paper to cover the inside of the drawers or cabinets.
• Keep your paper and re-use if not too wrinkled for gifts next year.
• Give to local schools for crafts
• Keep it in the garage or under the sink. Clean windows with crumbled up wrapping paper, it is great!
• Use the paper to fill hats or boots
• Use as placements when our kids eat or craft

So, enjoy your holidays with your family and friends, and when cleaning up, remember to recycle that old wrapping paper, it won’t take any time away from your festivities, and you will feel better helping out our environment!

A "Green" Fireworks show!

New Year's Eve is fast approaching and we all love to attend the parties, parades and watch the spectacular fireworks shows, seems to innocent right? Not so, New Year’s Eve fireworks can cause humans great health risks, not to mention animals, and our Mother Earth.

In July of 2009 scientists found that fireworks, although fun and usually free to watch, pose a great risk to human health. The smoke that is put out from fireworks can trigger asthma attacks, and sends toxic metals into the soil and water. Not only can the fireworks harm our lungs but the poisonous metal that makes the color white, is called Antimony and can harm the lungs, heart and stomach. Barium causes the green color in fireworks and can be toxic to the heart. Not only are fireworks bad for humans but of course, not good for our earth either. As you can imagine, all those metals flying through the air into our water and into our soil, takes its toll on our environment as well.

Scientists and researchers are working on a new generation of pyrotechnics. While still explosive and dramatic and fun, these fireworks produce less smoke and use fewer toxic metals that end up in soil and groundwater. We all know that not all people are on the eco-friendly fireworks bandwagon, but it would be great to encourage your neighborhood or area to go with the new Eco-friendly fireworks. They are a bit more pricey than the normal fireworks and it might be a little premature to expect your metroplex to use them yet, but now you know and you can help spread the word. You can contact the EPA to find out where to purchase.

Disneyland is on board as they do fireworks nightly. They are investigating cleaner burning fireworks and in 2004, Disney began using compressed air to launch fireworks at Disneyland in Anaheim and it reduces at least the issues of smoky particulates in the air and perchlorates in the water.

Although the eco-friendly fireworks will be hard to find at the present time, if you buy fireworks, ask for the low smoke fireworks, and make sure you follow firework safety tips.

I’m Dreaming of a Green Christmas…..

Our environment doesn’t take time off for the holidays, and neither should we!
Being “green” is a 365 day a year responsibility. There are many ways you can continue your environmentally friendly trends during this holiday season.

Let’s start with your tree. An artificial tree will last for many years, but when you are ready to replace it – what happens? It will end up in a land fill and last forever! Your best bet with a Christmas tree is to purchase a pine tree with the roots still intact. Then after the holidays, you can plant the tree outside and watch it grow! When purchasing the lights for your tree, remember to buy the LED ones. They cut down on the amount of electricity used.

Decorating the tree is fun and easy. You can use old ribbon laying around the house as garland, or pop some popcorn and gather the family for a popcorn stringing party! Have a contest for your kids and let them create ornaments using items you already have in the house (or that they find outside).

My Mom was green before being green was cool! I remember Christmas mornings at my house – we used a seam ripper to open our Christmas presents. My Mom was able to re-use wrapping paper for YEARS that way. If you don’t want to take it to that extreme, you can use the funny papers to wrap presents, or any section of the paper. Finish it off with a red bow – and wha-lah – a great wrapping job friendly to the environment! If you are having to ship presents this year – please avoid those styrofoam peanuts! Instead use old newspaper as package filler or do as a friend of mine does, save your children's Ziploc baggies and blow them up to use as cushions inside the boxes.

So many easy ways to stay “green”. E-mail cards rather than snail mail, online shopping rather than driving from mall to mall – just a little common sense goes a long way in helping Mother Earth!

If you don't know much about recycling, ask or do what we do and search the web! Don't forget to buy eco-friendly gifts as well this Holiday season!

Happy Holidays!

On Friday, don't go black, go GREEN!

Obviously we are coming upon the famous “Black Friday” and at Seed Sucker, we figured we would join right in!

Starting on Friday, November 27th through Monday, November 30th you can receive 30% off your entire order! You must use code BF30 when checking out to get this great offer!

If you are exhausted from all the same old gifts, its time to give Seed Sucker organic shirts a try! Why not spend money on something that helps the earth and give the most unique gift of the season! You will be the talk of the gift-giving day!

There are so many items to choose from at Seed Sucker, so don’t forget these great buys on Friday:

Make A Change Baby Onsie for the little ones
Giving Back To The World One Seed At A Time Organic Shirt for the females
H2O: Don't Waste The Taste shirt for the man in your life
It's a Global Thing (for the one who usually does the shopping)

Remember that at Seed Sucker, every tag (label) is a plantable tag and at Seedsucker you can also give back to the environment by registering your Seed Sucker product with us online. For every item registered, .50 will go into the Seed Sucker Foundation fund.

Act quickly on Friday morning and get those Christmas gifts early, set your alarm if you have to, but whatever you do…. make sure help "MAKE A CHANGE"!

Tired of the same old fundraisers?

Kids are great, but the stuff they want to do sure can be expensive. Whether your child is involved in youth sports like little league baseball or soccer, dance, cheerleading, band or a club like boy scouts or girl scouts, there is a good chance that you will be asked to do some fundraising at some point.

Personally, I am exhausted from the wrapping paper, the cookie dough and the candles. I know that I am to help out the organization but really, a 8 oz candle for 18.00? Seriously?

Seed Sucker is the perfect place to help you raise money for your organization. This fundraiser offers a FAST, EASY, and PROFITABLE way to help you get the funds you need, just in time for the holidays. You don't have to worry about, messing with products or collecting money, because Seedsucker offers online fundraising. You get a easy fundraiser that is Eco-friendly, lucrative and a "No Hassle" fundraiser. Check out the great catalog of Seedsucker shirts that you can choose from!

Fast: Your supporters need only log into www.shop.seedsucker.org and shop away! Using the unique promotional code (assigned to your group upon program enrollment) during check-out will automatically tag each sale for your organization. What a great way to take advantage of the times with computers/internet and secure ordering!

Profitable: All Seedsucker fundraiser t-shirts are discounted to the public by 25% off retail and each unit sold will net your organization 30% of the sale price less shipping and applicable taxes. At the close of your fund-raising event, Seed Sucker will issue payment directly to your organization within 2 weeks, no more waiting 6-8 weeks for payment.

Easy: Complete the enrollment form on line, or download the paper form and fax or email to them. They review your application, and once approved, you'll receive your unique promotional code and send your announcement (be sure to include your promotional code in all announcements so that sales for your organization are accurately tracked).

All orders will be sent directly to the purchaser, no more hassle of trying to set up a "pick up time".

For more information, contact Seedsucker at fundraising@seedsucker.org or fill out the fundraising form and start earning your money today! It is just that simple! Check it out!

Eco-Friendly Stationery and More

Ready for the holidays? Staccato Stationery has your eco-friendly holiday cards and MUCH more.

Staccato is a paper design company offering exclusive designs of stationery and invitations as well as the top designs from great invitation companies. All collections use recycled papers with a minimum of 30% Post Consumer Waste.

And they've recently added the Plantable Greetings line from Botanical PaperWorks, which reminded us so much of our plantable apparel tags - we had to check them out! This line includes the precious Plantable Yummy Cards - the perfect gift or card for those garders and gourmet cooks, the Yummy Card boxed card set grows six different herbs when the card is planted. And that's not all - each card contains a recipe for a tasty dish using the fresh herbs you've grown.


Staccato’s is a small, woman-owned company that focuses on superior customer service with a mission is to bring organic style to the stationery & invitations industry.

And don't forget to check out the Staccato Signature exclusive designs! Check out their “The Anna - Save the Date” invitations and their “Yasmine” invitation (a beautiful retro purple & green floral, 3 layer invitation) that you could use for any event.

Be it a new baby announcement, wedding invitations, party invitations, holiday cards or just stationery - Go Green for your next event and during the hoilday with Staccato - with an eco-friendly solution for your paper-communication needs!

Another Rave Review

Special thanks to Margaret Bochy of Pickles & Lollipops blog for another rave review of Seed Sucker organic t-shirts. She's a single mom to a twenty two year old daughter, and a twelve year old son. With her blog - she shares her opinions, and helps others on a variety of topics from motherhood, to practical tips, tricks & finds.