The Atom

"The Atom is a lightweight, highly efficient bicycle generator and rechargeable battery pack designed to power virtually any of your electronic or mobile devices via USB."
If your teen rides a bike, what could be a more perfect gift?

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Fair Indigo

Organic and fair trade. Supporting women in the USA and abroad.
Under $30 section. Cute Joobles sets and lula la clothes for babies. Nothing for older kids, but teens will like some of the adult clothes and accessories. Earth friendly men's watches. Vegan leather accessories.


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Fate of the World (Computer Game)

This game involves real science and real solutions. Intelligent, scary and thought-provoking.
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Green Guru

Green Guru Gear sells backpacks, bags, wallets, laptop sleeves, bike accessories, and more. Backpacks only in adult sizes.

The products are made from recycled bike tubes, banners, wetsuits, climbing rope, and PETE recycled plastic bottles.




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Gardening With Kids

All sorts of products for gardening with kids, even a special section for products suitable for teens.
From the National Gardening Association, has a health/ community/Earth stewardship intent.

Also- a soil test kit is here at this site.


Image from Growing Ideas Blog, Gardening With Kids

Eco Bags

 For your teen or grad who will be leaving the nest, here is a great idea!


Buy eco shopping bags and then include perhaps:


Recipes of yours for easy, healthy meals (familiar foods stand more chance of being prepared)
Cookbook
Membership to local food co-op
seasonal produce subscription
A few healthy staples or treats. What about dried nori seaweed or some organic chocolates?
Cute fridge magnets
Gift card to someplace they can only buy healthy food

I got this idea from greendeals.org                             Image is from Eco Bags

Super Green Boards

Skateboards made from bamboo and other green materials. Order a specific design or have one custom-made.
Prearrange the order, let the skateboarder choose or design the board?

photo from Super Green Boards

Green and More. com

Backpacks with solar panels or made of green neoprene
Site also has green gadgets and organic bedding for kids.

Image from Green and More.com

PB Teen

Eco-friendly bedding for teens, organic bedding for teens

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Think Geek

OK, this is a bit of a stretch to include this site in a list of green sites. But it is such a cool site, I just have to share it with you. This is especially great for kids that are technologically oriented.
Take some time to look around the site, you'll find some fun items that may be that "something new" you're looking for.

They do have a few things that actually are somewhat green - the Sneaky Books, for instance, include recycling and conservation techniques.

"The Kill-A-Watt allows you to connect your appliances and assess how efficient they are."(Find that in Essential Gear).

They have solar powered items. (Type 'solar' into their search field.)

Also, a t-shirt that says, "Think Globally. Act within local variable scope."

This is a great place to look for imagination-promoting toys, science stuff and cool puzzles, too.

Image from Think Geek

Pedalite North America

Great gifts for cyclists:
Bright flashing battery-free lights for pedals, toe-clips, backpacks, ankles.

Image from Pedalite North America

Crafting Change

If you're shopping for an eco-conscious, socially aware teenager, or if you're trying to create one, you might want to pick out a gift made by these cooperatives. I originally had a link to a Crafting Change Cooperative in Rio where the low income artisans turn trash into attractive jewelery, handbags, and belts. At this time I can't locate a URL for them, but here are some other organizations doing similar things:

Image from Indego Africa




http://www.centsofrelief.org/crafting-change.php
India

http://nbartisans.org/who-we-are/   
Refugees

http://www.indegoafrica.org/artisan-overview
 Africa

http://www.upavimcrafts.org/
Guatemala

Environmentastic

Consider green stocks/mutual funds as a gift. This link should take you to the archive for the 'investing' category on environmentastic.com.

Here are some other sites that you might find helpful.

http://www.socialfunds.com/

http://www.sharebuilder.com/ type "gift children" into search on site

http://www.environmentstocks.com/Enviro_Stocks/

http://www.checkthemarkets.com/index.php?Itemid=98&id=650&option=com_content&task=view

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=79fc6f690f4b4a8fb62fa074310b5641&siteid=nwhpf&sguid=wSnoVn_d5E-8Da2mvhu7_A

http://www.portfolio21.com/?_kk=green%20energy%20investment&_kt=07268c7e-060b-4db8-98b3-00aef20091a0&gclid=COTrvdrwypcCFRsRagodvhAFSw

VitaCost

Bath, beauty, skin care gift sets. Type "gifts" into search box.

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Stuff Junction

All sorts of solar, wind, and water powered clocks, calculators, gadgets, chargers, and toys!
Section with prices under $20
 The Sun Jar, pictured, would make a great get-well gift.

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Geekware

Computer parts recycled into jewelry, cuff links, key chains, notebooks, trinket boxes, clocks, etc

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Eco-Friendly travel

Give a gift that will always be remembered!                                                    Image from Responsible Travel.com

Hotels
http://www.itsagreengreenworld.com/public/worldareas.html?gclid=CNDPh52M35YCFRlRagodpSZ23A
Hotels
http://www.istaygreen.org/index.cfm
Green B&Bs in USA and Canada
http://www.bnbscape.com/

"Here you will find select Ecolodges and other eco-friendly hotels, tours
as well as ecotourism-related services. Best rates & DIRECT Contact-
We charge no commission to either tourism providers or tourists."
http://www.ecoclub.com/lodges.html

"...share your previous eco experiences and research your next ecovacations"
http://www.ecotrotters.com/?gclid=COmj8v-I35YCFQ0xawodZBkI4A

"Hand-picked holidays from over 270 tour operators, and 100s of unique places to stay"
http://www.responsibletravel.com/

Travel within the USA or Worldwide
http://www.ecotourdirectory.com/ecotours/united_states_of_america/

"eco tours and eco tourism destinations in the United States"
http://ecotourism.gordonsguide.com/united-states.cfm

"bike tours and multi-sport adventures found right here in the national parks, mountains, and deserts of the untamed North American backcountry!"
http://www.escapeadventures.com/sustainable_vacations.htm?gclid=CMCH-riI35YCFQMCagodFhBN2Q

http://www.sierraclub.org/outings/national/ Sierra Club Outings

"decades of experience designing exotic international family travel, including active family adventures, family safaris and family cross-cultural explorations. "
http://www.journeys.travel/tags/family/?gclid=CLzrnsmH35YCFQ0xawodZBkI4A/


"Educational travel offers unique perspectives on nature and culture."
http://www.expeditions.com/Live_an_Issue301.asp

Low Impact Sustainable Travel
http://www.gapadventures.com/?gclid=CKr3lauH35YCFRs-awod5yh22w

Amazon Used Book Sellers

If you have a tight budget this could be your answer. The used book sellers on Amazon can pretty much be relied upon to ship within a day or two and be very fair in their dealings. It is important to them to give you good service and a good product in order to keep their ratings up. Individual merchants have their own return policies, etc - you can look them up by clicking on the merchant. I consider it to be a reasonably reliable way to purchase like-new books for an (often) tiny fraction of the regular price, even when you consider shipping. I've purchased new books off the shelf that were in worse shape than any I've ordered from Amazon.

Used books help preserve the environment!

Amazon is my personal favorite but these are also often recommended:

alibris.com
abebooks.com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/used/search.asp
bookbyte.com -can be a good place to find deals on expensive books

Ski and Snowboard Gear

About "eco-friendlier" ski and snowboard gear.
REI snowsports gear.





Image from greenliving/ istockphoto.com/Ingmar Wesemann

Ski and Snowboard Passes

 About purchasing ski passes.
 Article about top six green resorts in USA.
 Article about five eco-friendly resorts for families.
 Five European Eco-friendly resorts.
 About Cross-Country resorts.
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