Tag: Christmas - Page 6
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Survey: How Do You Light Your Tree?
Even Rockefeller Center has gone LED this year; Many cities like Toronto are doing free LED light exchanges. Yet I was shocked to find that TreeHugger April in Sweden "reverts to the ancient Euro-tradition of having a few clip-on paraffin-free stearin
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Green Gifts for Eco-Warriors
Of course we are all sick to tears of more ecological recommendations for Christmas presents, but when they are from the green goddess herself, Lucy Siegle, how can we resist? She prefaces her list with a confession that she is not yet "sufficiently
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Downloading Designs: Make Your Own Goat.
New York branding and marketing firm ITO Partnership says "We like goats: they're tough and adaptable, so they thrive in extreme climates everywhere. And they deliver: several quarts of milk a day, plus fertilizer for a family's garden and a silky coat
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So Just How Many Sprouts are Equivalent to a Million Leprechauns? Ed Byrne on Recycling at Christmas
You know it’s getting close to the holidays when enviro blogs start coming out with awesome gift guides, and you get inundated with hints and tips on how to recycle your cards. Here’s a fun guide from comedian Ed Byrne, courtesy of UK-based Recycle
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Have Yourself a Merry Flat-Packed Christmas: The Christmas Card Edition
Half Christmas card, half Christmas tree replacement (with tongue fully in cheek), UK-based designer Alexander Glenn has created a fun flat-pack tree just in time for the festive holiday season. In the spirit of having a Merry flat-packed Christmas and
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The TH Interview: Morgan Spurlock, Producer of "What Would Jesus Buy?"
Last year, Americans spent $455 billion dollars during the holiday season (ouch!). In an attempt to not only reduce that number, but get us all to think about our consumption and where our stuff comes from, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop
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Three Years Ago in TreeHugger: The Christmas Tree Debate Begins
Being TreeHugger's first Christmas, we dipped our toe into the real or fake tree debate for the first time, with ::How To: Pick a Green Christmas Tree. It is the subject that keeps on giving; read subsequent posts on how ::Christmas Trees Add to Global
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A Child's Christmas
And in the end, holidays are about children and the joy of seeing their faces light up with the happiness and excitement of the occasion. When looking for gifts, it's hard to succeed with all the commercialism and advertisements for hideous toys and
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Swap Shop for Christmas Decorations
If you want a new look for your christmas tree, or don't have any nice baubles to put on it, here is the ecological way to go. A swap shop--bring in your old tree trimmings or just buy someone else's. Choose by colour and size and pay as little as £1,
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The TH Interview: The Home Depot's Green Man, Ron Jarvis (Part 2)
Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or
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Designer Gingerbread Houses
As Archinect cleverly put it, German architects are going after seasonal work with 5 different stunning modernist gingerbread houses. This one, by Berlin's Graft Architects, comes with 9 PDFs so that you can get all the layers right. All come with full
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The Carbon Footprint of Christmas
Over the past year or so, as climate change (or is it climate chaos?) has moved closer to the forefront of the world's collective consciousness, we've seen relative carbon footprints for just about everything. From burgers to furniture to UK produce to
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TH Forums Highlights: More Green Christmas, Florida Floating Away? + More
1) Forums user socalhockeygal starts up a hot topic these days: the holidays. "I've read a lot about greening your Christmas on different blogs and forums lately. There has been a lot of talk about Christmas trees (fake vs. real), Christmas lights (using
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NY Times on How the Green Grinch is Stealing Christmas
What is with the Times today? The evils of wind power in the travel section and then calling Aunt Betty the New Grinch for daring to suggest green Christmas presents.
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Rockefeller Center's Christmas Tree Lights Up Holiday Season With LEDs!
If there's one "must-see" attraction during Christmas in NYC it's inevitably the tree at Rockefeller Center. This year's incarnation is an 84-foot-tall Norway Spruce, and it's going to be a little bit greener than usual this year, with
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TH Forums Highlights: Composing Toilets, "Green" Christmas Trees + More
1) Forums user greencomb needs to get the poop on composting toilets: "I'm was just about to buy a little
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Quote of the Day: Bill McKibben on Christmas
Photo credit: lollyknit I’ve been called my share of names, but the only one that ever really stung was "grinch." The year that a few friends and I started the Hundred Dollar Holiday program through our rural Methodist churches, several business page
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G-Wiz it's Nearly Christmas!
OK – the G-Wiz is popping up so often on our pages it’s in serious danger of becoming a cliché. However, that doesn’t seem to stop its ever growing popularity, or its attractiveness to funky designers. We couldn’t resist, then, to bring our London
