Learn How to Deck the Eco Halls with ‘Green Christmas’ + WIN YOUR OWN COPY!
It is no secret that the holidays are stressful. Buying gifts, traveling, cooking, decorating, chilly weather, the flu – it’s enough to drive a person bonkers. Trying to maintain a sustainable mindset during such busy times adds its own unique challenge.
Can you have a sane, eco-holiday? Of course! Authors Jennifer Basye Sander, Peter Sander, and Anne Basye had the foresight to write Green Christmas: How to Have a Joyous, Eco-Friendly Holiday Season for this exact purpose. Any questions you have about holiday entertaining, travel, gifts, decorating, and waste are answered in intelligent, easy-to-understand detail.
Green Christmas offers some very sobering details about our holidays’ impact on the environment:
- Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Americans produce an extra 2 billion pounds of garbage per week. (Imaging that on a world-wide scale!)
- Every Christmas season, enough holiday cards are sold to fill a 1o-story football stadium.
- If every child under the age of 6 received a quality wood toy instead of a plastic one, we’d avoid 17 million tons of plastic landfill.
Getting the whole family involved and focusing on what particularly about the holidays makes you happy (I bet it isn’t spending hours trapped in shopping mall crowds.) are key to enjoy a sustainable holiday. By simply consuming less and enjoying the company of others more, you will be on your way to the greenest holiday season ever.
According to Green Christmas, enjoying the holidays sustainably doesn’t mean you will be sacrificing any joy or merriment. In fact, 75-90% of people report that they feel stressed and depressed during the holidays. Instead of focusing on enormous credit card bills or silly family feuds, you can create new and positive experiences by cooking together and enjoying the outdoors.
The holidays will never be the same again, thanks to Green Christmas. Create a warm, low-pollution fire; find (or make) sustainable, affordable gifts; choose an eco-friendly tree; feed family and friends without going broke (or hungry) – you learn how to do all this and more, thanks to Green Christmas: How to Have a Joyous, Eco-Friendly Holiday Season. Give it a read and you’ll soon be saying, “HO HO ECO!”
Want to try and WIN YOUR OWN FREE COPY of Green Christmas: How to Have a Joyous, Eco-Friendly Holiday Season? Here’s how!
How to Enter :: It’s easy! Just comment on this entry with your answer to this question – “What excuse(s) do you friends and family use for not ‘going green’?”
That’s it! Make sure to include your e-mail address in the space provided or I can’t contact you if you win.
The Rules/Fine Print :: One entry per person, per e-mail address. Winner will be selected at random via Random.org.
Contest runs from today – Thurs, November 20th – to Thurs, December 4th (working around the American holiday of Thanksgiving).
great post! i think the reason i don’t do even more things to go green is due to a lack of convenience. i also think i hear that more than any other reason for other people as well. then again if EVERYONE would do a few simple things it’d add up to a whole lot more than a few people taking giant steps.
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No excuses here. We’ve been recycling wrapping and bows for years now, as well as decorating with finds from estate sales and second use stores and bringing the nature indoors.
Another green book holiday resource for you: A local mother daughter team, Corey and Lynn, co-wrote “Celebrate Green” on not only being greener in your holidays but bringing meaning to the table and the holidays, Christmas and beyond. It was just launched this October!
http://www.celebrategreen.net
Great book, great gals!
Nice to find you via Facebook blog networks. Stroll on over to my end of the woods and say Hi!
Blessings,
Amy Woidtke
interior decorator/space therapist
EcoKind Design
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My family is making some good steps toward a green Christmas, but are still fighting the “buts!”
“But it’s too cold and the snow is too deep to take the organic garbage to the composter/ride my bike to work/etc.”
“But I can’t get my extended family to exchange hand-made gifts. . . ”
Buts aside, I’m proud of the efforts we’ve made. Our weekly recycling now outweighs the trash pickup. We’ve got our thermostat down to 60 with radiant heat in the couple of closed rooms where we tend to congregate (family room and bedrooms). The utility bills have rewarded us by being nice and low. And I did put 1500 miles on my bike this year commuting to work. My new passion for yoga (class schedules) and the encroaching cold weather and ice have put a cramp in my biking, but all in all, we are one of the greenest families around.
Namaste,
kensaxman
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