A Green Christmas

Christmas is not normally what one thinks of when thinking Green. This year let's green up our holidays. There are many ways we can sacrifice our energy consumption and sacrifice waste during this time of year.

1. Switch from primary Christmas lights to L.E.D. Lights. They will sacrifice your energy consumption greatly, the median string of 50 lights uses 300 watts of energy, the same 50 set of Led lights only uses 4 watts of energy and last up to 100,000 hours.

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Talk about savings! Not only are we recovery a huge number of energy, we are also retention costly dollars in our bank accounts.

2. Put all your lights on timers. By putting all your lights on timers (inside and out), you will save energy by controlling the number of hours your lights are on.

I don't know about you, but I've fallen asleep with the lights on many times!

3. Decorate using nature. Try decorating your home using natural items. Pinecones and fresh greens make a gorgeous centerpiece for a table or swag for the mantle. Adding pinecones or holly berries to your Christmas tree will give it an elegant, natural touch. White Pine Roping is made from the trimming of the trees and is a great way to decorate the outside. It can also be mulched or composted after the season is over.

4. Try buying gifts that will unmistakably get used for more than a week or two. Books, movies, actual toys like soccer balls or roller skates, toys that use kid power. Buying all that plastic crap that the kids see on Tv is just like throwing money down the drain, and polluting our environment. Buy them art supplies that will look after their creativity or a musical instrument. Earthopoly [http://www.greennationgardens.com/Earthopoly-Eco-Friendly-Board-Game-p/eg-earthopoly.htm] is a fun board game that teaches about the environment and sustainability and it is 100% green! We are so caught up in giving our kids what the marketing fellowships tell us will make them happy. The toy of the month is not going to make them happy. It may satisfy them for a week or two, but not more than that.

Help them to find their passion, something they will love and grow with.

5. Don't waste food. The holidays are the biggest eating time of the year. We cook more, we bake like crazy, we basically overindulge. This means that much food gets wasted. Make sure any and all food scraps go into the compost, not the trash can! freeze or share what you cannot eat yourselves. If you have an fullness of leftovers, take it to your local homeless shelter, a shut in neighbor, or maybe request man less fortunate to share your meal. Cookies, cakes and pies given to a shelter or nursing home would be greatly appreciated.

6. When setting your holiday table, go ahead and use the good china! If you have them, cloth napkins are the way to go. It makes the table look beautiful, sophisticated and it saves waste from entering our landfills. Paper napkins, plastic ware and plastic or paper plates is a huge tax on our landfills and they take a lot of energy and trees to make. If you are going to use paper napkins and plates, please do not throw them into the trashcan! Paper napkins and paper plates can be unmistakably composted with your kitchen scraps. This will make clean up a breeze.

6. Use eco kindly wrappings. Use recycled gift bags, Comics, decorate brown paper bags for wrapping paper. At the very least do not throw your wrapping paper into the trash! Wrapping paper can be recycled just like any other paper.

7. Make lists and harden your shopping trips as much as possible, or great yet, do your shopping online. This will save lots of $$ on fuel and also keep your life simpler and less aggravating.

These are easy tips anything can implement to Green up your Christmas.

A Green Christmas