Every blog right now has tips, ideas, and spotlights on how to ‘green’ your holiday season. Here’s a few good ones to check out:
Planet Green - The Ant-Gift List
Treehugger - Holiday Gift Guide 2008
dezeen - The Eco Christmas Tree
Notcot - Gifts That Lean Green
Brighter Planet - 12 Conservation Tips for the Holiday Season
Does Dad really need another soap-on-the-rope this Christmas? Ok, maybe I’m the only one who gave his father that same, lame present every Christmas, but, I mean, it’s soap that’s on a rope! This holiday season, why not consider a gift with a higher purpose. No, not shampoo. I’m talking about the gift of carbon-free living for a day. Through a great holiday initiative at Brighter Planet, you can provide your loved ones with the gift of carbon neutrality with a click of the mouse. The ONE DAY campaign is designed to reduce and offset U.S. CO2 usage at a time when emissions skyrocket. By visiting their web site, anyone can request one day of carbon-free living and will be able to pay the gift forward by emailing personalized links to their friends. Recipients of the ONE DAY gift can then, in turn, pass it along to others by forwarding new links- virally increasing the impact of the gift.
As we’ve profiled in previous posts, Brighter Planet recognizes that avoiding carbon-emitting activities in today’s world is, at times, impossible, so they offer these offsets to compensate for those inevitable emissions. The offsets are used to fund renewable energy projects in communities throughout the U.S. And they’re cheap, which means, Dad, you’ll probably be able to getting that soap-on-the-rope too!
