Have a Merry Green Christmas
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Are you tired of a Christmas that is too commercialized and consumer-oriented? Have you been trying to live a simpler, greener lifestyle, but you are not sure of how to start green Christmas traditions? You can make your Christmas more eco-friendly and more meaningful for you and your family.
Make Your Own Holiday Magic
Create holiday traditions that you look forward to doing as a family, like making and decorating Christmas cookies, decorating the tree together or wrapping gifts together. Other traditions could be reading Christmas poems, such as "The Night Before Christmas", as a family.
Do something meaningful for someone else: Donate to charity or volunteer at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter for a day. Go through your closets and donate unused, un-needed items to charity. Have kids find things they no longer need, and donate the items to charitable organizations or local churches that distribute items to the needy. ...
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- 1Recycle your old cellphone.
- 2Make your own wrapping paper.
- 3Add organic & local foods to your holiday feast.
- 4Stocking stuffers: test your eco-knowledge.
- 5Do a "cool home" tour with our energy-saving checklist.
- 6Buy energy-saving LED holiday lights.
- 7Get a pesticide-free tree.
- 8Recylce your Christmas tree.
- 9Donate your time or money to an environmental group.
- 10Get ready for dinner-table debate about the environment.
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