Make This a Green Christmas

The song says "I'm dreaming of a Whiteor anything else you don't want to use for
Christmas," but we need to make it a Greendecorating this year, call up Good Will, Habitat for
Christmas this year. We need to keep in mind theHumanity (If they have resale stores in your
need to have an eco-friendly Christmas to helparea), or other organizations like that to see if
our planet. This quote appeared in Time magazine,they resell them. Again, these items do not go
"Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find."into landfills, other people can buy Christmas
So what does it take to have a Greendecorations for less, and the charity uses the
Christmas? The good news is going green is verymoney for their projects. This is a win, win, win
simple especially if you start with the things yousituation but please, don't be a Scrooge and send
can do something about. We cannot do anythingthem your broken stuff!
about the Copenhagen Climate Treaty going onYou can also buy green products as gifts. No,
now. If you want to know more, go to cleanskiesdon't buy green cleaners, but many stores and
dot com or do a computer search foronline sites have very nice Christmas decorations
Copenhagen Climate Treaty. We can do things likeor other items that make great gifts and that are
reuse wrapping paper or bows. As presents arealso good for the environment. These might be
unwrapped this year, you can save the paper andbamboo clothing, organic towels and sheets,
the bows for next year. You can take thewallets, purses, and bags, and yoga equipment or
Christmas cards you get and cut off the frontclothing. There is so much to choose from it is
cover and then paste them on the presents nextimpossible to list them all here. Right now, most
year. It recycles the card and is an attractiveonline merchants are offering free shipping or
way to wrap a present. You can even write yourother discounts for you to buy online.
To and From on the face of the card.What about giving green gifts for pets? Yes,
Another idea is to be sure and recycle yourthere are many great gifts for pets that are
Christmas tree this year. Don't just throw it outeco-friendly. This can be a good time of year to
for the garbage truck to pickup and take to acheck into other ways of caring for a pet like pet
landfill. Find out how and where your communityinsurance and/or medication. You can buy the
recycles the trees and do that. It does not takesame medicines online as you can in stores and if
that much time and it is a small thing that reallyyou are not able to travel or there are not pet
helps.stores in your community, the online store can be
If you have old ornaments, lights, artificial trees,just what you need.