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Green ToysFun Stuff for Kids To Help the Planet Recover |
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Nigel's Eco StoreHelp is at hand for you and the children to reduce your carbon footprint; he has toys that don't harm the planet. How about a Recycled cardboard playhouse or cardboard rocket?; there's sustainable card board toddler chairs too. Eco-toys and gifts that don't need batteries work towards being carbon neutral; Solar Powered cars, robots and solar powered helicopters are here along with an aircraft kit. There's a cool crazy cap with built-in fan too plus an educational experiment kit to learn about sustainable energy from the sun and light. Ethical fair trade sports balls are made from sustainably sourced latex; the range includes Ethical footballs, beach volley balls, rugby and basket balls.Solar powered and wind-up radios/MP3 players from Nigel's Eco Store are a great way to save money and the environment. Recharge an iPod or mobile phone virtually anywhere with a solar powered charger ... perfect for travel. Your ipod can be kept safe in an environmentally friendly case made from recycled truck tyres; other 100% recycled hard iPod cases are available in orange, red, green, blue, clear or magenta. Go green with ethical gifts and eco-friendly baby clothes, children's clothes, women's and mins clothes from Nigel's Eco Store. There's even eco-friendly shoes, trainers and sneakers including fair trade canvas sneakers and flip-flops with latex soles from Sustainable sources. |
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Topeco LtdThe excellent topeco define eco-friendly as anything that, in some way, helps the planet e.g. Recycled or sustainable materials or Fair Trade products. Even their web hosting is 100% carbon neutral! Their range of ecotronic green toys and gifts do not require batteries, and are made of totally bio-degradable materials including packaging. Shop on-line for a wind-up toy rocket, children's torch, play 'phone, even toy ducks!. Solar Powered eco-toys include a wooden helicopter, and fun cap with built-in fan. Children's green educational kits include 'Make Your Own Solar Airship', crystal radio set, and a solar power educational kit to appreciate sustainable energy.Kid's wooden toys from topeco.co.uk help to reduce your carbon footprint ... they don't require batteries. Choose from an airport, take-apart digger, Noah's Ark, cars, vans, trucks, rocking horse, coloured building blocks and cool play tools. Wooden musical instruments include xylophones, drums, tambourines and recorders. Shop at topeco.co.uk too for dolls houses made with timber from managed forests and not chemically treated. There's Victorian, 'My First', chalet style and lots of play accessories like people, bedroom furniture, living room furniture, bathrooms, kitchens and more. Travelling? ... don't forget a solar powered phone charger such as the popular Solarmonkey portable solar charger. |
AmazonCombat global warming with a little help from Amazon
They've a huge selection of Solar Powered eco-toys
to choose from such as robots, airships, spiders and helicopters.
Fun windmills too! No batteries means they're environmentally
friendly. Kids green science and educational kits include
an 'Enviro Battery' (to create batteries from fruit juice and
vegetables), Kidz Lab 'Soda Can Robug' where children recycle
a can, and an awesome wind generator toy to learn about renewable energy
and recycle a plastic bottle.
Along with educational solar power science kits, Amazon also sell hydrogen powered fuel cell cars. These science kits demonstrate the possibilities of 100% clean fuel for vehicles. There's heaps of Fair Trade toys here too including puzzles, bookends, castles, dolls houses and more. If you're on the move buy a portable travel solar multi-charger (such as the Powermonkey Explorer Emergency Charger) which is adaptable to recharge mobile phones, MP3 players, iPod and cameras. | |
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UrchinThe ethically minded Urchin currently work with 4 Fair Trade companies and are actively growing their fair trade range. They currently have a selection of wooden and fabric green toys such as hand-knitted cotton rattles, coat hooks, money boxes and puzzles. Girls will love a wooden mobile with sequin fairies which has been fairly traded and made in India from painted wood.Planning an environmentally friendly children's birthday party ? ... shop at Urchin for Fairtrade party bags that can be used again and again. |
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Science MuseumThe awesome Science Museum Shop sell a number of eco-toys and children's science kits to understand the possibilities of environmentally friendly energy and reducing our carbon footprint. They've hydrogen powered toy cars and rockets for some sustainable travel (no batteries required!) or how about a wind-up MP3 Player ideal for the beach or travelling and going carbon neutral.solar Powered green toys from The Science Museum come in the form of spiders and solar-powered robots. They've a curious solar airship blimp-type-thing as well plus a University of Cambridge Weather Station & Solar Energy Project Lab to helps kids understand solar energy and weather patterns. Grab a Freeloader Solar Charger for environmentally friendly portable travel charging. Green science sets make great birthday and Christmas gifts for children that are interested in saving the planet. Try an 'Enviro Battery' or maybe a 'Soda Can Robug' that uses a recycled drinks can to make a toy robotic bug. There's dynamo torches here too for. |
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OtherlandThe amazing on-line store Otherland sell a neat collection of clockwork toys and gifts that are of course toys that don't require batteries. They've a retro-style clockwork robot, space trooper robot and a pencil-sharpening robot(?!) ... also a somewhat unusual wind-up submarine along with a toy diver. There's cars too, cool Ferris wheel and traditional jack-in-a-box. For some fun, buy some chattering teeth or wind-up racing Grannies.Otherland sell wind-up radios and torches too and the popular solar monkey portable solar powered charger to keep your gadgets working on the go. |
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EbayShop on-line at Ebay for a huge choice of environmentally friendly toys and gifts that don't harm the planet; there's a green selection of Fair Trade products, ethically produced goods and organic materials to suit all tastes. Many are hand made.Sustainably sourced wood with child safe paint is an eco-friendly way to play safe and green ... you'll find children's puzzles, castles, dolls houses, building blocks, towers and plenty of neat construction kits. Musical instruments too. Soft toys from natural materials and fairly traded sources include dolls and teddy bears. Kids play houses made from recycled cardboard are often here too and there's a usually a nice selection of handmade children's fair trade jewellery. |
Arabella MillerNot eco-toys but eco-clothes! Arabella Miller sell organic cotton children's clothing made from cotton grown without pesticides and free from genetic modification; it's therefore perfect for children with sensitive skin. Arabella Miller organic cotton clothing is certified as organic by the Soil Association and is a fairly traded product.Shop at Arabella Miller for environmentally friendly baby clothes like funky baby t-shirts made of soft and comfortable 100% organic cotton. There's space designs with rockets and planets, ladybirds, funky cats and bunny rabbits, and cute dogs with bones. The 'Arabella Baby Box' comprises two baby t-shirts made from the softest organic cotton imaginable. All baby gifts are packaged in recycled paper. Arabella Miller organic baby hats arrive soon along with organic dresses. Ethical fair trade kids clothes you just can't resist! |
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Environmentally friendly 'eco toys' and ethical gifts that help to reduce global warming and support fair trade are growing in popularity. Green toys that don't need batteries help to reduce your family carbon footprint whether they're solar powered toys, clockwork wind-up or conventional push-along/pull-along toys. Fun cardboard playhouses, rockets and furniture made from recycled cardboard are also a sustainable and eco-friendly way of helping your kids play green. Fair trade toys and gifts that encourage ethical trading are a welcome addition to the toy shelf (made of timber from sustainable sources of course) ensuring that children or adults in other countries have not suffered and are paid a proper wage. Let toy-shelf.co.uk help you find toys that don't harm the planet.
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