TreeHugger Picks: It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas
The holiday season is nearing its zenith, with a couple of big days right around the corner. Here are some ways TreeHuggers know that Christmas is almost here.
View ArticleThree Years Ago in TreeHugger: The Christmas Tree Debate Begins
Being TreeHugger's first Christmas, we dipped our toe into the real or fake tree debate for the first time, with ::How To: Pick a Green Christmas Tree. It is the subject that keeps on giving; read...
View ArticleTH Blog Love - Our Favourite Greens Of The Week
About My Planet: Top Five Science Videos Of 2007 by Sarah Nelson "New Scientist magazine shows us their most popular science videos of 2007; some of them are pretty bizarre. A species of squirrel that...
View ArticleWhen Holiday Cards Go Overboard
Holiday cards are beginning to arrive in mailboxes, and from the brightly colored envelopes come cards of various levels of intricacy. Some cards can be pretty elaborate, with pop-up scenes and...
View ArticleA Little Christmas Eve Tale for You
Here is a little green Christmas tale for you to enjoy tonight. Even Planet Green gets a cameo.
View ArticleOh Tannenboing! Something to Spring for This Holiday
The Christmas tree is not the only thing that mars the holiday's environmental record, but it is certainly a major player. While farmed-raised trees are inherently "green," farmers' proclivity for...
View ArticleWhite House Recycles Christmas Tree Ornaments
Last night the National Christmas Tree, a living Colorado blue spruce, was lit, so now the holiday season is official. And inside the White House, Michelle Obama unveiled the Blue Room Christmas
View Article7 Gorgeous Green Ways to Decorate for the Holidays--Without Blowing the Budget
Stuck to white lights, green wreaths, and an 8-foot-spruce? Perhaps this is the year to start changing things up. Don't worry: We're not suggesting you get rid of that ornament your newlywed son made...
View ArticleAngels, Reindeers, Pigs and Christmas Trees; sustainable wood decoration by...
more images below Matteria, good design+smart materials online store, suggest a spicy Christmas this year, without forgetting the environment. Apart from the gorgeous cork advent candle holder, the...
View ArticleGive The Gift Of Recycling
The holiday season can be overwhelming, filled with family reunions, last-minute shopping and gift exchanges. With these activities comes an increase in the waste we generate. Being caught up in the
View ArticleChristmas Tree Constructed of Recycled Mountain Dew Cans (Video)
Talk about a recycled Christmas Tree. This one is made from 400 Mountain Dew cans. Drinking soda isn't a green or healthy thing to do - but skipping a fake plastic tree or a chopped-down pine tree and...
View ArticleBest of Inhabitat: Last Minute Tips for a Green Christmas!
'Twas the day before Christmas Eve, when all through the prefab home Not one person was ready, not even this gnome; They'd been busy working and studying and living Seems like only a second had passed...
View ArticleOm Nom Nom!! Christmas Tree Made Entirely of Bread and Cookies
It's hard enough for me to pass a bread shop without going in. But it's utterly impossible when I see this in the window. Walking by a bakery in the Castro in San Francisco, I stopped dead in my...
View ArticleA Home at the Zoo for Old Christmas Trees
Though the holiday lights are still up on many houses, the first week of the new year means it's time to
View ArticleWoman Has Used the Same Christmas Tree Every Year Since 1928
In this age of consumerism, particularly around the holiday season, sometimes its easy to forget that the things we've used the longest often have the most value to us -- but the virtues of reuse just...
View ArticleXmas Stress? Get A Christmas Tree Delivered By Bike
Real Christmas trees - the ones you go out and cut down yourself, are a growth industry, says SF Gate. That's because young adults are flocking to u-cut tree lots, out for the experience and the...
View ArticleCute, Low Impact Wool Felt Christmas Tree Ornaments by Planar
I have to admit I'm a bit the green grinch of the family: I really can't stand all the mindless consumption over the holidays, and I'm always pushing the buy nothing concept. I don't even have a...
View ArticleIsraeli Artist Makes Christmas Tree From 5,480 Recycled Plastic Bottles
Devastating forest fires in the area haven't kept Haifa, Israel, from being able to put up a massive Christmas tree in the center of town. It helps, of course, that the tree is made entirely of...
View ArticleOld Christmas Trees Help Other Trees Grow Year-Round in Paris' Neighborhood...
Once all the gifts have been opened, all the feasting done, all the toasts made, the time will soon come to figure out what the heck to do with the Christmas tree around which so
View ArticleHealthy 75' Tree Cut Down to Decorate Rockefeller Center. Does It Have to Be...
The tree that will decorate Rockefeller Center this holiday season was cut down this week - but was it needlessly killed?
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