the gift of green.

Giving green gifts is a great way to introduce friends and family to eco products you recommend or to new, resource-conserving tools and techniques. Explain to your best friend that Americans toss 100 billion plastic bags in the trash while giving her a reusable tote. Give your new neighbors a basket full of non-tox cleaning products as a house-warming gift and ensure at least two parties where they don’t call in a noise complaint. Bring a pack of CFL bulbs to your parent’s house and amaze them with the fact that if every family in the U.S. made the switch, we’d reduce carbon dioxide by more than 90 billion pounds. Solar powered garden lights, organic cotton baby clothes, fair-trade organic coffee and a reusable coffee filter, soy candles… the options are limitless! When giving green, remember the best gifts might be the kind that can’t be wrapped, such as adopting a whale or acre of rainforest, or dedicating a grove of trees to your loved one.