Mandy Levenberg’s blog: Being Green & Seeing Red

Considering that each family in the US generates about 100 pounds of extra waste during the holiday season…

I’ve come across a few (there are a zillion) cool ideas for the holidays this year and I’ll add more as I see them:
-If you live in Seattle: www. wastefreeholidays.com - a ton of restaurants/museums/arts groups are giving discounts if you “give an experience as your gift”.

-If you don’t live in Seattle, consider the Symphony, Opera, Museum tickets.

-The average household receives 41 lbs of junk mail per year. Give the gift of eliminating junk mail:

41 lbs.org and GreenDimes are a few sites that make it easy and offer gift certificates.

-Carbon balance your cousin who drives and SUV: Carbon Fund, Terra Pass

IF You must buy something:

-Check out this “green” gift shop: Viva Terra

-Get some reusable items here: Reusable Bags

-How about some Gdiapers or BumGenius

-Even if you are skeptical of Product RED, check out the Gap’s 2 week t-shirt: “Contributions from this limited edition T are equivalent to the average cost of 2 weeks of medicine which will enable people living with HIV to lead healthy, normal lives.”

Stocking stuffers:

-How about some CFLS?

-A toothbrush that is good looking and recyclable? Preserve even offers paid envelopes to send the brubh