Here are 7 tips for how to have an eco-friendly Christmas.
1. Decorate Green for an Eco-Friendly Christmas
Deck the halls with boughs of holly, hang the mistletoe and leave the plastic decorations at the super store. Use natural decorations like greenery, pinecones and cinnamon sticks. If it needs a battery to “light up” up or “sing” in your house, forget it. Invest in some soy candles and pull out the caroling books instead. I love this idea and the scent woudl juts be so lovely.
2. Eco-Friendly Christmas – Just Say No to Gift Wrap
Make this the year that you finally just no to Christmas gift-wrap. For gifts under the tree, use pillowcases and sheets to wrap gifts. Reuse gift bags and shopping bags and don’t consider yourself cheap, just consider yourself green. Will look so very pretty too and so much more traditional. These brown paper Christmas wrap ideas are just lovely and co friendly too!
3. Green Christmas Cards for an Eco-Friendly Christmas
Consider mobile greetings or a video greeting card. If you really desire to send traditional cards, buy cards made from 100% recycled paper. Of course you can make your own special cards by using recyclable materials too. Or get the kids to work crating them s from scratch will entertain them and homemade is always heart made.
4. Green Stocking Stuffers – Eco-Friendly Christmas
Avoid useless trinkets made from materials that will last centuries beyond the trinkets usefulness. Consider battery free and biodegradable gifts like playing cards or wooden cars. Consider organic bath and beauty products that are better for the earth and your family too.
Use recycled paper and print out these Christmas jumper adult colouring pages for a fun free and green gift.
5. Create Green Christmas Traditions
Whether you cook some holiday dishes on a woodstove, build and fill some bird feeders or do a family trash pick up walk, create a tradition of time spent together that honors your family bond and mother earth too.
6. Eco-Friendly Christmas – Buy Locally Made Gifts
Gifts at superstores have left a carbon footprint worldwide as they traveled from one continent to another, not to mention the materials that they were made from or the factory practices either. Buy gifts made by local artisans from natural materials. Consider handmade jewelry, soaps, candles, linens, hats or scarves. You’ll also find handmade gifts for gifts for kids from wooden puzzles to pottery piggy banks.
7. Enjoy a 100-Mile eco- friendly Christmas Meal
This Christmas challenge yourself to prepare a meal with as many ingredients as possible that don’t come more from more than 100 miles from your home. Look for locally pasture raised turkeys or hams. What’s local in your area? Go on a local treasure hunt and look for apples or other fruits, nuts, honey, potatoes or sweet potatoes or eggs.
So maybe you’ll have a white Christmas and maybe not but you can certainly have yourself a merry little Christmas that’s eco-friendly too.
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Over to you for you environmentally-friendly Xmas ideas
Do you have any Eco-Friendly Christmas to add.
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