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Ah – tis that time of year.
True confession – I am a Christmas nut. I love Christmas. Love it! But it is certainly not without its flaws and challenges. One of the biggest being balancing gift giving with conscientious sensibilities.
Fortunately there are many great online resources to help you give green gifts this holiday season.
Bamboo Magazine, a fashion/beauty/lifestyle publication with a conscientious niche. Their gift guides feature sustainable and stylish gifts, as well as ideas for celebrating appreciation without consuming more stuff. Subscribe for free to get more holiday ideas.
Inhabitat is a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future. Their gift guide offers a host of options for everyone on your list.
If you seek a bricks and mortar retail experience head to your local 10 Thousand Villages for fair trade gifts from around the world. These boutiques carry everything from Christmas ornaments:
- Christmas ornament made from recycled posters that have been discarded from a printing company.
…to fair trade coffee and chocolate:
Fair Trade coffee grown, hand-picked and sun-dried by indigenous Aymara farmers in the high altitude jungle region of Los Yungas, Bolivia.
…to living gifts that support projects devoted to health, empowerment, sustainability and education.
Whatever you are giving this holiday season keep gratitude top of mind. Giving comes from a place of abundance. Giving from a full heart feels good and satisfying. Give thoughtfully this season.
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What is the big deal about straws you say? Well plenty.
Our standard plastic drinking straw is a landfill nightmare. They do not biodegrade. They get eaten by animals to tragic results. In North America we throw out hundreds of billions of plastic drinking straws each year.
Yuck.
That is why I love the reusable, glass drinking straws from Glass Dharma. It is a stroke of genius really.
Glass Dharma straws are made of borosilicate glass – the strongest commercially available glass on the market. It’s the same type of glass that your glass coffee pot or your Pyrex® pie plate is made from. It is dishwasher safe and contains no lead. Love that.
I have been using them for ages and they are amazing. They are extremely durable (I am hard on mine and have yet to break one).
They are also fantastic because, as a makeup artist, I encourage models and anyone in my chair to use a straw in order to preserve their makeup. So when you sip your bevy out of a Glass Dharma straw you are saving your lipstick and the environment. What is not to like about that?
Simple Elegance - my favourite
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