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Greening the Holidays in 2011December 7, 2011Last year about this time, I wrote a blog about greening your holidays. I re-read it in preparation for this year’s holiday-related blog and would like to build on those suggestions. The Audubon Society has a wonderful resource with ideas and links for everything from trimming your tree to gift giving and holiday parties. You can even adopt a puffin and receive periodic updates on its progress! What a fun and meaningful gift for a child and a teambuilder for your work unit! The Audubon holiday tips makes a great poster for bulletin boards as well as a link on your office Intranet. Click here to read it.
Cooking for the holidays? Save energy in your kitchen with these terrific suggestions from CleanEnergyHolidays. Click here to learn how.
There are plenty of websites ready to enlighten your environmental awareness just in time for Christmas and the holidays. Check out the tips the Sierra Club is offering and gift ideas from TreeHugger. The Earth Day 2012 website has a list of ten ideas to green your holidays including some unconventional gifts.
If your office is planning one or more holiday parties, this is a great time to encourage staff to cut back on the plastics, individual sized soda cans and water bottles, and green the party with recyclable or re-usable serving trays, multi-serving sized containers, and finger foods. Instead of “new” gift exchanges, have a white elephant gift exchange where the rule is the item has to be one that was purchased or received but never used. Alternately, host a “trash to treasure” gift exchange. Invite attendees to contribute to an office-wide fundraising campaign that benefits a local community beautification project or other worthy local environmental project. And how about a thrift shop gift exchange, where the only rule is the gift has to come from a local charity gift shop?
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