My Photo

Pages

About

Comments?

  • You can comment by clicking the Comments link under any entry.

    All original material © JN Web Design

Recent Comments

............................

..

---

« Bill Moyers - Environmental Citizen Award Speech | Main | The Geminids Meteor Shower - December 13 »

Saturday, December 11, 2004

Ideas for A Green and Simple Christmas

  1. Buy a live tree and donate it to a local school or park afterwards.
  2. Put lights on a tree already in your yard
  3. Use all-paper wrapping - no foil; or re-usable bags
  4. Recycle wrapping paper for next year
  5. Make decorations out of natural materials, e.g, pine cones, boughs
  6. Get to know your neighbours
  7. Give simple, hand-made, locally-made gifts
  8. Give gifts to those that need it, in the name of your recipient.  (Example)
  9. Personal gift vouchers - for your time/service, e.g. child-care. massage, garden work
  10. Make pacts with appropriate people to not exchange gifts
  11. Have a gift-giving rotation, a different family-member each year
  12. Take food to a food bank or homeless shelter
  13. Make a list of "Trivial Pursuit"-type questions about your family
  14. Family time: volunteer as a group in a local community service
  15. Cook the holiday meal together

Add your suggestions to this list: click on Comments below.

- If you can't find the right thing locally, try Co-op America's Green Pages Online
- Bill McKibben talks about the 100-Dollar Holiday
- Give your old bicycle to Pedals for Progress

Saturday, December 11, 2004 in Community, Culture, Economics, Environment, Inspiration, Religion |

| | | |

Comments

Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

mIEKAL aND

Actively question Christmas as a consumerist & appropriated pagan tradition & establish new celebrations that are directly connected to the people that are celebrating, in other words organic & sustainable jubilees which honor the land & her inhabitants past, present & future.

Posted by: mIEKAL aND | Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 02:21 PM

JN

My personal views are close to yours Miekal. However, my intention is to offer a step out for those who feel caught in the consumerism of the season, however the holiday may be labelled.

One week to the Solstice! Up here in the north, I look forward to the lengthening days.

For a book filled with information and perspective on "organic & sustainable jubilees which honor the land & her inhabitants past, present & future", take a look at Celebrate the Solstice: Honoring the Earth's Seasonal Rhythms through Festival and Ceremony by Richard Heinberg - at http://www.museletter.com/books.html

Posted by: JN | Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 04:37 PM

The comments to this entry are closed.