Dear Green American,

This month, we’re celebrating sustainability from your closet to your kitchen. Discover how to make Halloween fair and fun with ethical chocolate and zero-waste costume ideas, shop smarter with tips for finding truly ethical fashion, and learn how to keep your wardrobe green year-round. Plus, explore new campaign milestones—from 35,000 Climate Victory Gardens to the fight for fair pay and safe workplaces—and join us for a canning webinar to savor your garden’s harvest all winter long.

To support Green America’s work, please consider donating today.

Choose Child-Labor-Free Treats This Halloween

Skip the big brands tied to child labor and deforestation. These fair trade businesses offer delicious, ethical chocolate that’s perfect for trick-or-treaters and your own stash.

Explore the Brands

Shop Smarter: Find Real Ethical Fashion

Many big brands talk the talk, but still harm workers and the planet. Our guide shows you how to read between the labels and choose clothing that aligns with your values.

Read the Guide

Make Halloween Fun—Not Wasteful

From costume swaps to nontoxic face paint and fair trade candy, there are plenty of ways to celebrate without supporting child labor, toxic ingredients, or waste.

Learn More

Sustainable Threads, Year-Round

Comfy clothes shouldn’t cost the Earth. Learn how to avoid microplastics, reduce textile waste, and support ethical brands with these easy ways to green your everyday wardrobe.

Campaign Updates

📈 Bring Responsible Investing to Your 401(k): Most workplace retirement plans still lack climate-smart investment options—even though 84% of investors want them. Our new guide, Plan for a Better Future, helps employees and employers take simple, practical steps to add socially responsible funds to 401(k) plans.

🌱 35,000+ Gardens for Climate Victory: We’ve officially registered over 35,000 Climate Victory Gardens! These gardens grow more than food—they’re cultivating climate solutions in backyards, schoolyards, and community plots across the country. If you’ve already added your garden, thank you! And if you haven’t yet, add yours here.

Upcoming Webinars

🥫 The Art of Canning with Jada Bee - Want to enjoy your garden’s bounty year-round? Join gardener and forager Jada Bee for a live webinar on the basics of home canning! You’ll learn the essential tools, step-by-step techniques, and tips to avoid common mistakes—so you can turn your summer harvest into delicious preserved goods.

November 5 at 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT → RSVP Here

TAKE ACTION

Tell Amazon & Adidas to Pay Their Workers

Tell Amazon and adidas to pay $1 million owed to garment workers in Cambodia. Four years later, hundreds are still waiting for severance pay they earned—add your voice today.

Take Action

Get Child Labor out of Fast Food

Big fast-food companies are employing children as young as ten to work in dangerous, unsafe conditions. Don’t let these massive chains get away with it.

Take Action

Be a Part of the Solution

Together, we're curbing the climate crisis ... getting the dirtiest corporations to switch to clean energy. We're protecting millions of people in the workplace ... pushing for safe and healthy working conditions for ALL workers. We're reinventing the way food is grown ... with regenerative agriculture that absorbs carbon and saves our soils!

For a monthly gift of $7 or more, we will send you a FREE "I am a Green American" backpack, made from certified recycled, climate neutral, materials.

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