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Maybe these will be useful, maybe not, but they all passed our interest-test.
www.planetaki.com/toys
Our toy planet from Planetaki. Planetaki is an online tool for reading your favorite blogs all in one place. And we even made a planet of our own! It's nice if you don't have the time to browse through 17 toy blogs, but do wish to read their updates. We use it for inspiration and to see what's going on in the toy world, and we'd like to share it with you. If you happen to know more interesting toy blogs, feel free to pass them on and we will gladly add them to our planet.
Why should you choose wooden toys for your kids?
Picking out the best toy for your kid is no easy task. Toys come in a variety of shapes, designs and materials. As the raw material for our beloved toys, we respect and favor wood as both a friendly and sustainable material for our designs. We are pro-green in an attempt to be idealistic, not fashionable! Our aim is to limit the use of plastics to a minimum - so you can count on even our packaging being eco-friendly. We believe humans have to be aware of our broad use of plastics and their enormous strain on nature.
Using wood doesn't imply that we're running at 100% efficiency, but it certainly has benefits that plastic and various other materials do not have. To help educate you as to why wooden toys are the responsible purchase, we would like to point you toward one particularly interesting read from Prakash (India, Pune). Go have a look and find out why wooden toys are good for your kids.
Fighting Drought With Trees
Once in a while we stumble upon a story that is full of inspiration and hope. Here is one such story from Burkina Faso (that's in Africa). One man called Yacouba Sawadogo changed the scope of combating climate change in the dry Sahel Desert. Mr. Sawadogo has used planting pits to nurse young sprouts of trees amidst his farming fields. These planting pits, called zai, retain water and furtile soil and give young indigenous trees (acacia) the boost they need to grow into larger trees. The larger these trees grow, the better the soil around it retains water. This gives ground to other plants and results in the top layer of soil getting richer in compost. This combination of farming and process of tree growth has proven to create a dramatic improvement throughout the region of Burkina Faso and Niger, according to researchers. We feel that this story is very much worthy of sharing.