How Green is Your Holiday?
Dec 22nd, 2009 by April
Green-Christmas.org is a website that offers some interesting tips on how to keep your holiday eco-friendly. One of them is getting a “living” Christmas tree, “which is delivered in a pot, remains alive through the season (don’t forget to water it!), and is picked up after New Year’s Day.” I had never heard of that before but if you Google “living Christmas tree” you will find some interesting information, like this article in the Los Angeles Times. It might be too late to get one this year but you might want to keep it in mind for next!
Another idea listed at the website is to reuse paper for gift wrap. I have done this for the last couple of years and I think it’s a great idea. I usually take Christmas catalogs that come in the mail that no one wants and use pages with photos of Christmas trees, gifts, Christmas cookies, snow, etc. for wrapping.
Then there is always purchasing and giving organic gifts that are sustainable and better for your recipients anyway.
How have you made your holiday more eco-friendly?