Seattle

Green Halloween® is proud to be a community partner of GoGreen ’11 Seattle!

And here is a special “treat” for Green Halloween friends and partners: Take $25 off of registration for your organization and all of your members with coupon code BOO.

What the conference about?

GoGreen ’11 Seattle is a one day sustainability conference for business in Seattle on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 built to motivate, inspire, and educate business owners to “go green” and become more sustainable.

As an action-oriented, non-typical conference, GoGreen ’11 Seattle teaches tactical steps on how to “green” your business and provides actionable next steps to sustainability for business owners and decision makers. Attendees will learn from live success stories and participate in panel discussions geared to provide solid takeaways to make any size of business the most sustainable that it can be. The GoGreen Conference will feature over 50 business leader speakers and 15 different sessions on how to build sustainability into your business.

DATE: Wednesday, April 20 2011 | 8:30-5:00pm

PLACE: The Conference Center (LEED Certified) | 8th and Pike Street, 3rd Floor

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Business owners and leaders. Anyone who can make decisions about sustainable practices in a business.

REGISTER: http://seattle.gogreenconference.net/ or call 206.459.0595

FOLLOW: http://www.facebook.com/gogreenconference

http://www/twitter.com/gogreenconf @gogreenconf

http://gogreenconference.wordpress.com

(Enjoy these pix from previous GoGreen conferences!)

October 23rd’s Issaquah Highlands Green Halloween Festival was a spooktcular day, indeed!

About 5,000 attendees enjoyed hay rides, mazes, mad scientists, DIY face painting, bounce houses, and green goodies galore. By all accounts the event was a smash hit.

Despite the weather forecast, participants stayed (mostly) dry!

Early birds received free ParentMap reusable shopping bags with goodies inside.

The event was also a food-raiser for the Issaquah Food Bank and Seattle Humane Society. By the end of the the day, these bins were overflowing!

Kids trick-or-treated for healthy, eek-o-friendly goodies from Larabar, Cascadian Farm, Stretch Island Fruit Co, Glee Gum, Recycling is Cool and more.

The do-it-yourself face painting (featuring Lyra pencils) at the Green Halloween booth was a HUGE hit for kids (and some parents with a good sense of humor)

HAPPY HALLOGREEN!!!

For more Seattle-are Green Halloween events, click here.

Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood is Zillow’s #1 rated local trick-or-treating destination. (Seattle was also rated as the #1 city for trick-or-treating in the nation.)

But now Wallingford is Seattle’s must-attend Green Halloween trick-or-treating location.

With 14+ participating trick-or-treat stops along the trail (on 45th and inside Wallingford Center) there’s plenty of healthy and EEK-o-friendly fun to go around. Molly Moons is also participating but joined in after the map was created; don’t forget to add them to your own map! Green Halloween and Whole Foods Market will also have booths.

Featured goodies from Larabar, Cascadian Farm, Stretch Island Fruit, Glee Gum, Revolution Foods, Plum Organics, Recycling is Cool and more.

Join us on Halloween day (10/31/10) from 3pm-5pm.

{Don’t forget to wear your DIY (or swapped!) costume and non-disposable treat carrier.}

More info can be found here.

Last year, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics released a report stating that 10 of 10 face paints tested contained lead (a powerful neurotoxin) and other heavy metals. These findings fuel mounting concerns over the safety of numerous chemical fragrances, artificial colors, preservatives and other ingredients in body products (for children and adults).

But kids wear face paint, they don’t eat it, right?

Wrong. What’s applied to the skin is absorbed into the body. Think of body products (face paint, included) as “skin food”.

So what’s a parent to do?

Make you own, as we did today with New Day Northwest’s host, Margaret Larson. It’s super easy (and FUN!) and can be made with ingredients you likely already own and trust.

(Not sure if you do trust the products you own – like diaper rash cream, or lotion, the “base” ingredient in our face paint recipe? Be sure to check out www.CosmeticDataBase.com).

Not the DIY type?

Purchase mineral-based makeup from EcoMom.com or TerraFirmaCosmetics.com.

Segment links:

Non-toxic nail polish:

www.hopscotchkids.com

Safe Face Paints (pre-made):

www.ecomom.com

www.terrafirmacosmetics.com

All-natural food coloring:

www.wholefoods.com

Non-toxic diaper rash cream:

www.weleda.com

Get the {eco} Look: Corey’s dress from Issaquah-based sustainable-designer, Lizzie Parker. Lynn’s artisan-designed, reclaimed felt necklace from Digs.com.

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Green Halloween® is a nationwide non-profit initiative started by mother-daughter team Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell. In 2010, Green Halloween became a program of EcoMom® Alliance and has events in cities across the U.S.

National Costume Swap Day was featured on Q13 (FOX) in Seattle!

How CUTE are these little costume swappers? Watch the video above, and click here for the whole story.

… And don’t forget that while National Costume Swap Day has officially past, there are still local swaps happening all month long! Whole Foods Market in Bellevue, WA is hosting a HUGE swap, THIS Saturday the 16th from 12-3pm.

Thanks so much to Macaroni Kid (Snoqualamie Valley) and friends for helping us to get up this “mock swap” for the shoot.

Have photos or video from your costume swap? Send them to us via e-mail and we just might feature you on GreenHalloween.org!

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Green Halloween® is a nationwide non-profit initiative started by mother-daughter team Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell. In 2010, Green Halloween became a program of EcoMom® Alliance and has events in cities across the U.S.

Here’s Green Halloween® co-founder, Corey Colwell-Lipson on the air with Shaniqua Manning, host of Northwest Families on NW Cable News!

Check out Corey’s ideas for greening Halloween including:

National Costume Swap Day

Healthy & eek-o-fabulous treats & treasures kids will love

A “Halloween Tree” – eco craft & decor in one

For more Green Halloween media buzz, click here.

Green Halloween® is a nationwide non-profit initiative started by mother-daughter team Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell . In 2010, Green Halloween became a program of EcoMom® Alliance and has events in cities across the U.S. In Seattle, Green Halloween is sponsored by Whole Foods Market, Overlake Hospital and ParentMap magazine.