Plan Toys Green Dollhouse!
by Tiffany
We absolutely LOVE The Green Dollhouse by Plan Toys! It is designed to help children learn how to live in harmony with nature through role play and acting out stories about living responsibly. Children will learn how appliances in the Green Dollhouse assist their daily life without damaging the environment and how electricity can be generated from alternative natural sources such as the sun and wind.This house is a wonderfully educational toy that will inspire your kids to meet the challenges that they will face as adults. What a great tool to open dialogues and get them to thinking sustainably.
The solar passive designed dollhouse features a wind turbine and a solar cell panel with electrical inverter for generating electricity, a rain barrel for collecting rain, a green facade which helps control the appropriate temperature of the house, and a shade canopy that can be pulled down preventing or allowing the wind and sunlight coming through. Also, recycle bins are included in the set.
Get your furnished Green Dollhouse today at ECO baby +kids for the low price of $205.00
ECO baby + kids
www.ecobabyandkids.com
3516 South Peoria Avenue
Tulsa, Oklahoma
918.398.8575
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Thank you Tasha!
by Tiffany
Just as I was crying over my lost blogs and the time and energy it was going to take to recreate them Natasha of Tasha does Tulsa, a fantastic blog documenting what is happening in Tulsa, came to the rescue. All thanks to Tasha for helping me get over this, the latest bump in the road of trying to promote health and safety through sustainability. So now I can get on with life and blog away.
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Solar Energy Web Hosting
by Tiffany
We have been experiencing some turbulence with our website which is extremely frustrating. At this point many would have switched servers, but we are hanging in there a little longer. You may ask why, well the Lundeby’s Eco Baby website is hosted by Solar Energy which uses renewable energy to directly power their servers. We believe so much in supporting sustainability that we truly want this partnership to work. The reason for the recent turmoil on our website is due to the company making some changes and upgrading so we are going to give it another go with Solar Energy Host.
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Thinking Outside the Box
by Tiffany
photo by: un-sung
When the store became a reality we knew that we wanted to incorporate all of our home recycling efforts into the business. All of our office supplies, business cards, bags, tissue paper, and boxes are made from recycled materials and we designated a paper recycling bin. Our plan for cardboard was to collect and drive it to the Sand Springs or Broken Arrow M.E.T. locations. However, this got to be a bit tedious and the cardboard began to pile up. A good friend told me about Gentle Earth Recycling who now comes once a month to collect and recycle our cardboard. I had not worked in retail since developing my earth conscious ethics and had not realized just how much waste can be generated by a tiny little shop (that sells tiny little things at that). Most of our vendors are using biodegradable plastics, recycled paper, and recycled cardboard but there are still a few that insist on shipping in #5 plastic bags that are recyclable elsewhere but not here in Tulsa. Currently we are keeping the bags out of the landfill by passing them on to the Tulsa Children’s Museum for their travelling exhibits. I suppose we could ship the bags somewhere to be recycled, but where? (if you know of anything let me know). Back to the boxes, now that we have our online store up and running we are also able to extend the life of boxes before they hit the recycle bin. Recycling is fantastic, but it does require energy so make sure to reuse your boxes first.
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Diaper Service: An Opportunity for a Tulsa Business Venture
by Tiffany
photo by MGShelton
Since we opened, almost a year ago, I have had many inquiries about a diaper service. Diaper services were common place 50 years ago, but as disposables became available and grew in favor these services slowly dried up. Many states held on to a few of their services, not so with Oklahoma. Rumor has it that there was a diaper service about 5 or 6 years ago, but I have yet to confirm this with anything but hearsay. As today’s parents are becoming more and more conscious about the waste their baby generates, the health of their little bottoms, a need to reduce our dependence on oil and the wasteful usage of our trees, a need to reduce environmental contamination and carbon outputs created by the disposable industry, and the economical advantages of cloth they are seeking diapering alternatives. We are definitely witnessing a resurgence of the cloth diaper which is evidenced in green baby stores like Lundeby’s Eco Baby popping up all over the country and all across the web. New innovations to cloth diapers have made them much more user friendly, like the 
one size Econappi pocket diaper by Swaddlebees which is not only innovative and cute, but also the greenest pocket diaper on the market as it is made in the USA, the cotton is 100% unbleached, undyed, super soft organic cotton, it grows with your baby, and the dyes used on the PUL are water soluble. A shift is happening, but there are still many who would love to cloth diaper… if only there were a diaper service. Calling all entrepreneurs and diaper services, anyone interested in a new business or expansion? So where would you start if you were to begin a diaper service? An excellent place is the National Association of Diaper Services. I would call around to some of the services in other states and ask questions, I would be upfront and say that I saw a need and was thinking of opening a diaper service in Tulsa, Oklahoma and ask them what they did to get started and if they could offer any tips. I would also contact the National Association of Diaper Services directly and get as much information from them as possible. If you pick up this endeavor remember re-using is great, but re-using organics is even better!
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