I'm Dreaming of a GREEN Christmas!

Perkalicious11

11-19-2007 6:37 PM

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Go for gifts that involve life experiences such as tickets for a show, airplane or sports event</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.affordableservices.org/news/LiveBetter/111607_GreenChristmas.asp">
<B>Send Christmas e-cards</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.affordableservices.org/news/LiveBetter/111607_GreenChristmas.asp"><B>Recycle: Buy it and Do it</B><BR /><DIV>
Like the Christmas cards, try to buy recycled gift wrap, gift bags, boxes, and other packing material</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.affordableservices.org/news/LiveBetter/111607_GreenChristmas.asp"><B>Switch to Low-Energy Lights</B><BR /><DIV>
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs)</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.affordableservices.org/news/LiveBetter/111607_GreenChristmas.asp">Faux Fir</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.affordableservices.org/news/LiveBetter/111607_GreenChristmas.asp">Make A List, and Check it Twice</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.affordableservices.org/news/LiveBetter/111607_GreenChristmas.asp">Plan your routes so that you don’t have to double back</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.affordableservices.org/news/LiveBetter/111607_GreenChristmas.asp">consider buying rechargeable batteries</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.affordableservices.org/news/LiveBetter/111607_GreenChristmas.asp"><B>Did You Know?*</B><BR /><DIV>
If every American family reused just 2 feet of holiday ribbon, it would create 38,000 miles of recycled ribbon.  This is enough ribbon to tie a bow around the entire planet.</DIV><BR /><DIV>
If everyone in the U.S. replaced their regular holiday light strings with LEDs, in one month at least two billion kilowatt-hours of electricity could be saved.  This is enough energy to power 200,000 homes for a year.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3F1F33FF-2559-4087-B3DC-707390560ECF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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christmas, holidays, green, environment, money, save, tips

Perkalicious11 says:

So many great ideas! Every little bit of conservation helps!

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11-20-2007 8:29 AM

weirdguy

GREAT ideas! Go girl. I gotta find some LED tree lights. Every years one or two strands go out -- urghh!

Save the lights, save the electricity.

11-20-2007 8:34 AM

bignosemousie

I like to re-use ribbon, if it can be salvaged. I would really miss getting actual cards in the mail, though. I'd rather have no gifts and real cards. Sending cards is dying out.

11-20-2007 9:53 AM

Perkalicious11

it didn't fit within the 1000 characters, but after the "send ecards" heading it said that if you still want to send paper cards, opt for those printed on recycled paper and recycle them again when you're done with them. I know, I like the holidays because you get mail that's not just bills!