Our favorite eco-friendly holiday gifts this year are miniature Christmas trees that arrive alive and ready for planting and the most adorable floral bouquets we've seen, bundles of organic Christmas roses yearning to immediately beautify anyone's garden.

Cool tidbit about an Alaskan woman's startup company and her organic beauty products.

This is a great resource for prospective buyers, or the curious.

These are a cool find. Love the concept of gradually making all kinds of products, no matter how mundane, to be eco-friendly

I so agree! It's great to see more alternatives to CFLs, which break easily and contain toxic mercury. LEDs are the way to go. They last sooooo long and are child-proof!

A good reminder for women doing their annual sweep through their cosmetics to recycle or request recycling from cosmetic companies. Plus, props to a new company offering affordable cruelty-free cosmetics and donating to anti-fur causes.

A blog carnival of Papercrafts, which are paper model designs you can download and build. It's about as eco-friendly as model kits can get. No manufacturing and no driving to the store. These are fun, cool alternatives to plastic model kits. Love 'em!

To better ensure the children of today will have a prettier world tomorrow, check the Top 11 picks for the prettiest toys, games and kits that encourage the spirit of preserving our planet. The top pick (pictured) is a game years ahead of its time.

Wants gifts that are eco-friendly and pretty enough for a discerning gal? To help guys outs, here are our Top 12 picks for the prettiest girlie gifts that encourage the spirit of preserving and prettifying our planet.