Eco-minded Parent Gifts

Children's Books for the New Era

"I love this place—its food, its ambience, and its political goals."

"We'll always have Paris..."

'To help save the environment, I've replaced all of our lightbulbs with compact fluorescents. Now I'm running the old ones over to the landfill...'

Bee flying to another flower.

"Stop summoning me about rising sea levels. I do costumed supervillains staling jewels, men in beanies grabbing handbags - that sort of thing."

"This works, so why do we need to spend all that energy building a nest?"

"All this spinning...shouldn't this be charging our phones or something?"

"Can you cut the grass but leave the daisies?"

"The homes in this area are beautiful."

"We balanced our budget this month!"

Fred deciding which sort of power to use to cut wood for his wood burning air conditioner.

"Their wedding registry has 8 place settings of double wall, stainless steel water bottles."

"It's a lot of work, but we've decided to renovate this old factory."

"I came to save you, but everything I can think to do seems like it wouldn't actually make that much of a difference."

Frankenstein's Reading Light

Recycling bin for 'short term business plans'

"Technically, He's supposed to generate more energy than he uses."

"Well, you know what they say —'The water's always bluer on the other side of the trash fence.'"

From the Stone Age to the GarbAge.

"To save you from destruction I will now wipe out mankind!"

"Given a choice, would you prefer to be buried, cremated or converted to fossil fuel?"

"It seems even the local council are aware of your drink problem."

"Why pay for a tree in November when you can get one off the side of the road in January for free?"

"Scientists don't know anything. . . but we need to leave this to those more qualified. . . like scientists!"

Castaway harnessing electricity.

Man rolling the world across a shaky bridge between organic food and genetic food.

"hmm. Mother Nature's definitely trying to tell us something here."

"Hands up those in favour of deferring the firm's environmental policies for another few years."

Home Heating Oil

"It's not any better up our way, either."