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by Jill Fehrenbacher, 12/30/08

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2008 has been a dynamic year for Inhabitots — after-all this is the year that our bouncing baby blog was born into the world! Although Inhabitots has only been around for five months, we covered a lot of territory in the world of eco design for kids. From maternity wear to monster dolls, diapers to bike seats – if the environment and kids were involved, we were there. Here were the most popular Inhabitots stories of 2008, ranked according to traffic and comments. We’d love to hear your opininons, so please vote below and let us know which ones were YOUR favorites.

Which was your favorite Inhabitots story this year?

10. CROCHETED BEAR HAT TAKES WINTER BY STORM – 4 comments

9. MONSTER DOLLS FOR HALLOWEEN- 4 comments

8. ECO-FRIENDLY, ECONOMICAL MATERNITY WEAR – 6 comments

7. EAMES ECO-CHIC MODERN ROCKER – 8 comments

6. MATTHEW CARDEN’S FOOD ART – 8 comments

5. THE GREAT BIKE SEAT DEBATE – 11 coments

4. G-DIAPERS – 15 comments

3. ECO NIGHTLIGHT – Moon Jar by Tobias Wong – 18 comments

2. MAKE A CUSTOMIZED SILHOUETTE T-SHIRT – 28 comments

1. GREEN HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST – 56 comments

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