Father’s Day Gift Ideas

1.  Composting
According to the U.S. EPA, yard trimmings and food residuals together comprise 24% of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream. That's a lot of waste to send to landfills when it could become useful and environmentally beneficial compost instead! Composting offers resource efficiency and creates a useful product from organic waste that would otherwise have been landfilled.

If someone on your list is a gardener and does not yet have a composter – this is a great gift.  Some composters to consider are: Norpro 94 Stainless-Steel Composter Keeper, Norpro Ceramic Compost Keeper, or Garden Composter.

To go with the composter, you may want to consider also gifting the book Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting. This book helped start the composting movement and taught gardeners everywhere how to recycle waste to create soil-nourishing compost. Contains advice for starting and maintaining a composting system, building bins, and using compost.  Also needed is a compost thermometer and compost activator.  Some suggestions are: Taylor Analog Instant-Read Dial Thermometer or Compost Activator.

2.  Solar outdoor lighting is a great consideration for dads who like to entertain outdoors.  One brand to consider is this solar flood light set.

3.  A solar powered watch will help keep dad on time for all his appointments.  Check out these two designs: Casio Men's Wave Ceptor Watch and Pulsar Men's Solar Powered Tech Gear Dive Watch.

4.  Whether it’s for camping or for use around the home, a solar powered flashlight might be the right match.  We liked this flashlight because it does come with an emergency battery backup

5.  Organic Beer for the do-it-yourselfer.

6.  Looking for organic meats?  www.blackwing.com has a large selection of high quality steaks that are great for the barbeque.

7.  Organic gourmet cookies are great for the guy with a sweet tooth.  These themed cookies for the sports guy in your life are a wonderful treat. 

8.  Solio Solar Charger This award-winning compact charger stores power from the sun or socket; allowing someone to recharge their iPod, phone, GPS and other handheld devices - anywhere! A fully charged unit can give you up to 15 hours of music or recharge your cell phone twice. One hour of sun time gives you 15 minutes on your cell phone or 40 minutes of MP3 music. This is a great gift for the gadget guy.

9. Organic Wine Company
The Organic Wine Company carries a wide variety of wines including those made from organic grapes and a sulfite free wine. They have wonderful gift packages, vegan wines, great specials to save you on shipping costs and one of the most flexible refund policy we've seen. To order some for dad, click here.

10. The Sunflower showerhead available from Gaiam. It filters out chlorine from the shower. 

11.  For the dad that doesn’t like to ask for directions, consider the Vehicle Navigator. This is the world's number 1 navigation system.

12.  Magazines.com has some wonderful deals for Father’s Day with a wide assortment of titles.

13.  For the dad that enjoys history follow this link to order Band of Brothers.