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The idea of buying wrapping paper, wrapping gifts in it, opening the gifts, and throwing the wrapping paper out drives me crazy - it’s just so wasteful. During the winter holidays, 4 million tons of wrapping paper and shopping bags are thrown away. So, last year we started using fabric gift bags (see Green Gift Bags and the picture [...] Continue reading Green Gift Wrap  My friend Doris had the best idea at Christmas time; she made sewn gift bags to hold all the presents she was giving. The bags are not difficult to make, don’t take much fabric, and are re-usable year after year. I thought the idea was terrific; and it could be used for gift giving any time [...] Continue reading Green Gift Bags  This year as we’re scrambling to find new and unusual gifts for those that have it all, I hit on the brilliant idea (well I thought it was good) of gifting a few of the green items we’ve found over the past year to encourage eco-friendliness. Each of these gifts can help replace plastic throwaways, [...] Continue reading Green Gifts  Last year, it took an estimated 12 million barrels of oil to make the 88 billion plastic bags consumed in the US ($80/barrel x 12 million = $960,000,000 sent to foreigners for oil). After learning this, I committed that we would start taking reusable shopping bags to the store (see 11 Ways to Save in [...] Continue reading Reusable Shopping and Produce Bags  After learning that US bottled water consumption in 2009 required the energy equivalent of 50 million barrels of oil, I committed to finding some reusable water bottles (11 Ways to Save in 2010), and make sure we used them. I found some at klean kanteen (http://www.kleankanteen.com) that had the following features: BPA free & eco-friendly Continue reading Reusable Water Bottles  Making Us Poor I suddenly realized that we’re sending billions of dollars to foreigners for oil ($500 billion annually), making them rich and us poor, and it can’t go on. I don’t know why it never hit me before – the making us poor part just never sank in. Oil consumption’s just beginning to rise in China [...] Continue reading 11 Ways to Save in 2010 |
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