Posts Tagged ‘green christmas’

Check out this Green Christmas song! Full of helpful green tips with the spirit of the season.

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1. Use only LED lights for outdoor decorating. They use just 1/20th the energy of incandescent lights.

2. Don’t use inflatable decorations.Depending on size, they can use as much power as 6 CFL bulbs

3. Put all the lights you do use on a timer, that way they won’t stay on all night or at times when your not home.

4. Buy locally made organic wreaths or take a trip the woods and create your own wreath out of fallen greenery.

5. Shop local for gifts or make them yourself through upcycling.

6. Don’t buy battery-operated toys. You can make them yourself or purchase the many hand generated powered toys.

7. Choose items with minimal packaging. Wrap items in old magazines, newspapers that you decorate yourself. You can also wrap items in fabric as an extra gift.

8.Cut up some old Christmas cards and use those to make gift tags.

9. But local handcrafts or make your own, such as sweaters and scarves.

10. Overall, when it comes to the holiday season don’t go for that typical American ideal of “more,more, more” but rather start thinking of “less is more”. Make things more personal and you may just end starting new and eco-friendly holiday traditions of your own.

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Going the click and give route is a good way to stay green for the holiday, while helping to make the world a better place. Here we take a look at some great click and give programs online and all you have to do is click. It’s that simple, click and give.

Take some time out of your day and visit the following programs to help make someone else’s Christmas a better one.

Animal Rescue Site:  Click daily to help provide food, shelter and medical care to rescued animals.

The Hunger Site: Click daily to help provide food for those who have none.

Give A Smile: Your free click generates a donation from Tom’s of Maine to support dental care through the Tom’s of Maine Dental Health for All™ program. You may click once a day, every day. 100% of the donations raised go to community organizations that provide dental care to people who would otherwise go without. You can help fill in the gap in dental coverage access, just by clicking. In conjunction with care2.

Global Warming: Your free click generates donations from our sponsors. You may click once a day, every day. 100% of the donations raised go directly to Carbonfund.org, which supports renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation projects globally that reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the threat of climate change. In conjunction with care2.

Save Our Oceans:  Click once a day, every day. 100% of the donations raised go directly to Oceana to save our oceans through policy, advocacy and research. Oceana’s scientists, lawyers and advocates work around the world to protect corals, make seafood safe, save sea turtles and more! In conjunction with care2.

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Care2 has taken a different spin on the regular e-cards that you can get through Hallmark or American Greetings. Each time you choose to send an eCard from their selection they donate to save a square foot of rainforest land. With over nine million members for Care2 that is a lot of land saved.

The Care2 goal is to make it easier for people to make the world a greener place with many simple actions such as writing action notices or sending eco eCards. Care2’s eCard selection includes over 25,000 free animated and non-animated cards with 224 in the Christmas category.

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James Cameron’s new “Avatar” movie takes the consequences of not going green and puts them on the big screen.

The plot reflects Cameron’s  views about Earth and surrounds the life of a former Marine, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington). Jake us  sent on a mission to the distant moon Pandora to infiltrate spiritual alien race, the Na’vi.

The company he is working for wants to expand its mining operation and thereby destroy the local environment in order to make more money.   Jake has other plans though, once he realizes that Pandora is a beautiful place that must be saved.

Released in the UK over this past weekend, the film broke to a wide range of reviews. And either side that your on when it comes to movie criticism, the message of the movie itself stands alone.

As Cameron said in an exclusive interview with England’s The Sun:

” We are causing a global climate change that’s going to be absolutely devastating to the coral reefs. Science is unable to keep up with our industrial society. We are destroying species faster than we can classify them. We are destroying the food chain faster than we can understand it. The politicians are over in Copenhagen talking about climate change now – but there are other issues as well.” ~ James Cameron

Avatar hits world wide release this Friday, December 18th. Learn more through the main movie site: www.avatarmovie.com

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If you want to really go green this year while keeping the spirit of the holiday in mind, then make all your gifts by hand. Crafting things by hand can help out your budget and add that extra special Christmas flair to let people know how much you care for them.

Before you embark on your DIY gift making, there are some simple things to keep in mind. Here are a few guidelines that will help you out this holiday season:

1. Scavenge around the house and take full stock of the items you already have. Look for things you can refinish, reuse, recycle and upcycle. The point being start with what you have.

2. Keep a notebook or use Notepad and brainstorm ideas. you may not end up with only Christmas gift ideas but birthdays and other holiday gift ideas as well.

3. If you find an item around the house and are unsure what you can turn it into. Check out these websites for further crafty ideas: Insructables, Craft: transforming traditional crafts and DIY Gifts.

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Going green when gift giving is a great way to celebrate Christmas in an eco-friendly way. Here in the next few days, we will be focusing on different groups with our own green gift guide.

Today we are all about celebrating the DIY crowd. Within the green community, these are the folks who reduce, reuse and recycle their lifestyles doing as much as they can themselves. So, take a moment to check out these green gift ideas for the DIY and maybe even score some for yourself.

1. In Betz White’s Sewing Green: 25 Projects Made with Repurposed & Organic Materials DIY crafters can create items such as a tote bag from old Tyvek envelopes, blankets from old sweaters and even a wallet made from the cuffs of a man’s dress shirt.

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Instead of buying a live Christmas tree this year form your local store front only to throw it away in a few weeks, try making your Christmas tree choice more eco-friendly.

The alternatives that are offered today range from the simple country look to artsy designs; which one you choose depends on the overall Christmas theme look that you are going for in your home. Here we are going to take a look at the non-live and live Christmas eco-tree alternatives that are available today.

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December is here and it’s time for decorating!  One great way to get in on the holiday spirit is to dress up the desktop with some eco-friendly wallpapers.  Click on each image for a larger size then right click and save to your machine.

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