Holidays

Explore holiday traditions across cultures, and learn how to make your own celebrations as creative and sustainable as possible.
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Get Ready for a Plastic-Free Holiday Season
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How to Make a Low-Waste Gift Basket
outdoor wedding table
Grow Your Own for a Sustainable Wedding Celebration
Boy in skeleton costume holding bowl full of candies
The Ultimate Guide to Vegan Halloween Candy
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Eco-Friendly Father’s Day Gifts
Close-Up Of Goat
Scientists Urge Charities to Stop Animal Gifting
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The Climate Propagandist's Guide to the Holidays: How Far Should You Push Your Eco-Principles?
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Our Favorite Non-Profits for Gifts That Give Back
Best Eco-Friendly Holiday Cards
The 9 Best Eco-Friendly Holiday Cards of 2022
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The 9 Best Gifts from Carbon Neutral Companies of 2023
Best zero waste gift guide include beeswax crayons and fabric scrap shirt
The 26 Best Zero Waste Gifts of 2023
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving So Different From American Thanksgiving?
Best eco-friendly gifts include vodka and a coffee maker photo composite
The 29 Best Eco-Friendly Gifts of 2022
Close-Up Of Heart Shape With Text On Leaves
Use Your Garden For a More Sustainable Valentine’s Day
two kids sit on floor and make gingerbread house with candy for christmas
All It Takes Is a Gingerbread House to Get in the Holiday Spirit
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The Practicalities of Giving Fewer Gifts to Kids
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You Might Have Trouble Finding a Real Christmas Tree This Year
woman in pink sweater holds out bundle of glowing Christmas lights above full cardboard box
How to Recycle Your Christmas Lights
Make Pretty Robin's Eggs With a Simple Cabbage Dye
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12 Eco-Friendly Wrapping Paper Alternatives
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How to Preserve a Carved Pumpkin
Earth Day Inspiration: Words on Nature From Our Greatest Thinkers
Your Guide to Pumpkin Carving 101
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How to Cat-Proof Your Christmas Tree: 7 Tips
a book is wrapped with upcycled magazines instead of new wrapping paper
15 Things Not to Buy for the Holidays
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10 of the Best Plants to Give as Gifts
10 Green Ideas for Earth Day
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10 Valentine's Day Gift Ideas for School
three potted Christmas trees, one with decorations, next to logs and boots
How to Care for a Living Christmas Tree
10 Curious Facts About May Day
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How to Discuss Climate Change With Your Uncle
old Christmas tree set out next to garbage cans for collection
7 Ways to Dispose of an Old Christmas Tree
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10 Lovely Plants for Valentine's Day
What Activities Can I Do When I Turn Off the Lights for Earth Hour?
Downtown Chicago city scene with dyed green river for St Patricks Day
7 Surprising Facts About St. Patrick's Day
three children hold up jack-o-lantern pumpkins in front of face for Halloween
3 Reasons Why Halloween Is Great for Kids
old halloween pumpkins are stuffed into blue curbside recycling bin
Turn Plastic Waste Into Spooky Halloween Decorations
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5 Easy, Festive Napkin Folds for the Holidays
Why Those Fake Spider Webs Are a Bad Idea
little boy goes on easter egg hunt with woven basket and fresh grass with eggs
15 Easter Egg Fillers That Won't Go to Waste
Two Mute swans (Cygnus olor) wintering on Black Sea Coast, Varna, Bulgaria
The Bird Songs Behind 'The 12 Days of Christmas'
What About Renting a Christmas Tree This Year?
The World Water Crisis by the Numbers
workers in white suits pull large balloon through Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
7 Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
a stack of handwritten christmas cards to santa spilled on winter sweater
Is the Age of Christmas Cards Over?
family holds up pumpkin, watermelon and pineapple as edible green Halloween costumes
11 Eco-Themed Halloween Costumes
a small living christmas tree with ornaments next to firewood
What's the Environmentally Preferable Choice: A Real Christmas Tree or a Faux One?
three heirloom pumpkins in wooden bowl outside in sunny grass
5 Ways to Reuse Your Halloween Pumpkin
Did I Do the Right Thing by Cutting Down a Christmas Tree?
9 Gifts for the Person Who Has Everything
Cute child with jet pack
10 Halloween Costumes Made of Cardboard
Make Your Own Natural Red Food Dye for Valentine's Treats
pile of fresh pumpkins in various shades of orange for Halloween
How to Go Green for Halloween
Carved jack-o-lanterns on a stoop
9 Ideas for Plastic-Free Halloween Treats
Chuck Leavell and piano in the trees
Chuck Leavell's Earth Day Playlist
four kids in various Halloween costumes play outside in woods
How to Host a Halloween Costume Swap
man in beanie pulls fresh cut Christmas tree from farm through snow
There Are Up to 25,000 Bugs in the Average Christmas Tree
Painted white mason jars with flowers on a table.
11 Great Mason Jar Gifts
fresh eggs are dyed with all natural food ingredients including blueberries and beets
How to Make All-Natural Easter Egg Dyes