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LAST CHANCE to Vote for Your Favorite Green Halloween Costume!

Our Green Halloween Costume Contest ends TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT!

Today is your LAST CHANCE to vote in our Green Halloween Costume contest, and the competition is fierce! Our top 15 amazingly crafted submissions are currently vying for fame, glory, and some great green prizes – and we’re leaving it up to you to pick the winners! The competition ends tonight at midnight, so without further ado, here’s your chance to check them out and weigh in on who you think deserves the coveted title of “Inhabitat Best Green Halloween Costume 2009” not to mention some incredible prizes like a sweet solar-powered Bogo flashlight, an awesome $100 gift certificate to the spectacular Inhabitatshop or supercool Inhabitat t-shirts and tote bags.

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And if you want to check out the adorable kid costumes that were submitted to our kids contest, check out our finalists for the Inhabitots Green Halloween Costume Contest here >

LAST CHANCE to enter our Green Halloween Costume Contest!

by Yuka Yoneda, 11/01/09

LAST DAY TO ENTER OUR HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST!

The fun and frenzy of Halloween are officially over, but you still have one LAST CHANCE to submit your creative homemade costumes in our Green Halloween Costume Contest! We want you to blow us away with your handcrafted, eco-inspired Halloween costumes, so upload your pics TODAY!

The best and most imaginative costumes will win fabulous prizes like a sweet solar-powered Bogo flashlight, an awesome $100 gift certificate to the spectacular Inhabitatshop or supercool Inhabitat t-shirts and tote bags – not to mention the fame that comes with having your expert costume-crafting skills showcased on Inhabitat for the world to see!

ENTER OUR CONTEST HERE!>

And for those of you who have kids, don’t forget to enter their costumes in our kid-oriented INHABITOTS HALLOWEEN CONTEST >

Need some inspiration? Check out our gallery of last year’s winners:

Links Roundup of the Week: Almost Halloween!

by Olivia Chen, 10/30/09

As the trees begin to lose their leaves, once full and leafy branches grow increasingly bare to create suddenly spooky shadows in our windows — just in time for Halloween. Halloween is tomorrow and we’ve been admiring the green and ghoulish as well as just the plain weird. Take a look below for some of the best stories on Inhabitots and Ecouterre.

We’re curious to know if you would wear these LED eyelashes as part of your Halloween costume.

Sometimes a fashion faux-pas can be as frightening as a zombie, so take a look at these six howlers that will make your blood run cold.

We are seriously disturbed by these taxidermy accessories made of preserved rat heads, guinea pig feet, pigeon feathers and whole mice.

These spooky and eco-friendly lights are the perfect thing to provide light for your Halloween journey.

If you are thinking about doing some Halloween face painting, be sure to read this article about lead and other harmful toxins in paint.

And if you haven’t already, be sure to enter our Halloween costume contest on Inhabitots. There are great prizes!

REMINDER: Don’t Forget to Enter Our Green Halloween Costume Contest!

by Yuka Yoneda, 10/30/09

CALLING ALL HOMEMADE HALLOWEEN COSTUME CRAFTERS!

The deadline for our annual Green Halloween Costume Photo Contest is approaching so fast that it’s scary! We’ve gotten some awesome submissions so far, but we still want see yours so get your pics in NOW for a chance to win some sweet prizes like a handy solar-powered Bogo flashlight, an awesome $100 gift certificate to the Inhabitatshop or our fabulous Inhabitat t-shirts and tote bags!

ENTER OUR CONTEST HERE!>

And for the little ones in your life who are dressing up, you can enter pics of their costumes in the kid-oriented version of our costume contest.

ENTER INHABITOTS GREEN HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST HERE!>

Great Green Halloween Costumes for Kids!

For little ones, no other night of the year can quite match the fun and energy that comes with Halloween! And if you’re interested in teaching your tots to grow up greener, this magical holiday is the perfect opportunity to demonstrate to them that you can have a jaw-droppingly cool costume while still respecting the Earth and keeping waste to a minimum. From homemade cow outfits to eco-friendly baby monkeysuits, here are our favorite picks for great, green Halloween costumes for kids!

Top 5 Green Halloween Treats and Tips

Halloween is almost here, and if you’re a little spooked about going green with your little one this All Hallow’s Eve, we want to show you that there is nothing to be frightened of! From green kids crafts to healthy treats that your tot will love, here’s our comprehensive, one-stop guide of all the best tips and tricks for a green Halloween to remember.

Links Roundup of the Week: A Green Halloween

Halloween is almost upon us — and we hope that your’s will be as ghoulishy green as it is delightful. Not sure how? Well then, check out some of the best in green goodies for this Halloween featured on Inhabitots.

First, the costumes: Oeuf’s bat hat is an eco-friendly costume piece that will last even after the Halloween festivities are over.

But if …

8 Great Green Halloween Costumes

Halloween is undoubtedly one of the most fun holidays around, but it can also be stressful to try to come up with a clever costume that doesn’t require too much work. With all the awesome halloween contests and parties, finding that special costume with the perfect balance of intrigue and cleverness can really drive a person to their wit’s end! Don’t fret! Take a deep breath, and step away from the costume aisle at your local big box store, and let us inspire you with 8 awesomely green halloween costumes from Inhabitat Green Halloweens past.

Green Your Halloween With Wildlife Inspired Knits!

Halloween is just around the corner and if you’ve got any little ones in your life, you’re probably racking your brain for cute and clever Halloween costume ideas. If you’re on the verge of giving in to sheer desperation and contemplating holding your nose while buying a plastic Spongebob costume — don’t fear — we have a greener solution for you in the form of Oeuf’s adorable knit animal outfits for kids! These lovely mix-and-match knit pieces, made by Bolivian craftswomen, are not really costumes per se — more just cute dress-up separates — and that is precisely why they are such a great sustainable option for a green halloween. Kids will have fun wearing bear ears or a racoon tail any time of year, and these knit pieces are so adorable that you’ll want to encourage year-round dress up play.

Oeuf’s Adorable Animal Hats Show us ‘Where the Wild Things Are’

We’ve been in love with eco kids outfitter Oeuf for many years now, and they’ve just unveiled their cutest morsel yet: an adorable collection of baby animal …

Vote for your favorite kids Green Halloween costume

We hope you had a fun Halloween, and we want to say thanks to all of our crafty readers who sent in images of their Green Halloween costumes. We were overwhelmed with great entries and were really impressed with everyone who took the time to send us something. We’re still working on sorting through the adult costume contest submissions, but we’ve narrowed the kids Halloween contest …