We have now moved into our new warehouse home in Etobicoke with our partners, Green Earth Organics, and together we are dreaming up ways to bring a complete natural and organic lifestyle (GreenEarth with organic food, and GreenCricket with home and lifestyle products) right to your door. Just in time for the holidays!

We have created a unique lineup of GreenGift baskets that are both stylish… but also focus on eliminating waste by offering reusable containers, and minimizing the stuffing. After all, don’t we all know that baskets are stuffed because that makes you THINK you’re getting more? Why not just get more for what you pay for.

Also - this holiday we are offering FREE gift wrapping on gift items that you buy. We will use brown kraft paper, and a nice colorful ribbon (recycled paper or organic cotton)… just tell us you need it wrapped in your instruction box!

Happiness and Good Health to all of you for the Holidays and New Year!

Susan Mey
President and Founder

Give Green to Charity!

Instead of buying green gifts for just family and friends, have you thought about donating those gifts to your favourite charity?

We recently received a large order from a customer who expressly wanted all of the product to be delivered to some of the needy charities in Toronto. This meant a gift of personal care products, and baby products to the young mothers and kids at Covenant House in Toronto, and a pallet full of paper products and household products to Women’s Habitat, a shelter in Etobicoke that assists women who are dealing with violence and abuse.

What a wonderful way to make a difference to the environment and the lives of those people depending on those Charities. Thank you to the Mather family! You have set a great example for all of us.

Healthy Season Greetings!

Summer’s winding down and it’s time to sharpen your pencils, make your to-do lists and get back into the routine of the school year.  You might be thinking- ugh, no thanks, but this year we have one cute fix to ‘back’ you up in your back to school shopping.  Designed for kids aged six to ten, these adorable and sturdy packs are constructed with nylon made entirely from recycled plastic water bottles and trimmed with naturally biodegradable canvas.  Each pack removes seven 16oz. plastic bottles from the environment. We love that! The large interior space contains a smaller zipped pocket. Padded straps & back panel make it comfy on any set of little shoulders.  This backpack is definitely way cool for school.  Go for peace or love- you’ll need a lot of both as the fall frenzy begins!

Green Cricket's Nina Bag

Every summer it’s the same story: you have a full schedule, events back to back, and you need to transport your sunscreen, sunglasses, engagement gifts, phone, blackberry and everything else that powers your life. There is another concern, though: how to you take that much gear with you whilst remaining stylish at the same time?

Enter the Nina bag, a new addition to the Green Cricket store. I’m going to be honest. I hadn’t seen it in person until our brilliant EA Jennifer was sporting it and I asked her where she got it.

Confusion aside, this bag is insanely cute, has ample “pocketry” (a term coined by myself and a pocket-obsessed friend to describe a suitable distribution of interior pockets for phones and such) and it carries everything you need.

As part of our rigourous mom testing, we noticed that this bag is also perfect to carry diapers, powder, wipes and cream. You can take it to the beach, too. It holds flip flops, bikinis, sunglasses, sunscreen, a water bottle, and 1 or 2 trashy novels.

See for yourself. The Nina Bag is so versatile, you will use it all summer and well into fall.