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Be a Green Wrap Star

Melissa Breyer — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:00:29 +0000

The holidays are a time of family! joy! celebration!&#151and mountain ranges worth of trash! Read these green wrapping tips and our general holiday recycling advice to minimize your holiday waste without diminishing your holiday spirit.

5 Simple Gifts From The Garden

Judi Gerber — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:08:36 +0000

If you are a gardener, and the hustle and bustle of the holiday shopping season — the traffic, the crowds, and the department stores — wears you down, you can venture into your garden to soothe your soul and to make gifts for friends and loved ones. You don’t need to spend a lot of time [...]

Beware of this Invasive Species this Holiday Season

Megan, selected from Planet Green — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:10:17 +0000

For those of us who like to incorporate a bit of nature into our holiday d�cor, bittersweet wreaths seem like a good option. Their vibrant red berries provide the perfect accent to our front door. The only problem is that most of these wreaths are made with non-native bittersweet, which is an invasive species. These wreaths [...]

11 Natural Holiday Decorating Tips

Judi Gerber — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:01:37 +0000

For many of us, December brings the holidays, and whether it’s Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, or Christmas that’s celebrated, family and tradition are always in the forefront. To celebrate, we can add some festive touches from our own natural landscape and bring the sense of calm and serenity we usually feel in our gardens inside our homes during [...]

Decorating How-to: Bringing Autumn Magic In

Cait Johnson — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:01:35 +0000

There's nothing more luscious than inviting nature indoors in the fall: The brilliant colors of autumn make our homes feel deliciously warm and cozy as the weather turns cooler. Changing leaves, swags of grapevine, and vibrantly-colored apples and squashes make gorgeous, inexpensive decorations.

DIY Festive Felted Easter Eggs

Melissa Breyer — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:28:57 +0000

I am seriously charmed by three things: Eggs, fiber arts, and crafty holiday projects. I’m seriously charmed by many things, but these are the whims that have my heart today as I’m thinking about Easter. I have played with felting and wool roving before–most ambitiously when I tried to craft myself up the felted rocks [...]

Have a Zero-Waste Party

Kelly Magill — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:00:48 +0000

Whether it’s Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s or just because, you can always make your party a zero-waste fete. Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell, authors of Celebrate Green offer these guidelines for making any party waste-free. 1. Decorate the tree together with edible/compostable ornaments (like hardened gingerbread cookies) and popcorn or cranberry garlands. 2. Use edible and compostable [...]

Make Your Own Holiday Ornaments

Jana, selected from Plenty magazine — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:00:13 +0000

Start a new tradition by making tree ornaments out of recycled and repurposed materials. Instead of store-bought trimmings for their office Christmas tree, the Plenty magazine editors (along with a few crafty friends and family members) made ornaments entirely from found or recycled objects–no buying or using anything new. The resulting decorations were fresh and [...]

The Best of Care2: Holiday Decorating and Entertaining

Annie B. Bond — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:00:07 +0000

Here are dozens of great holiday ideas, compiled over years at Care2, to help us wrap, decorate, entertain, celebrate, and contact and give gifts to friends and family.

An Eco-White Holiday

Ronnie Citron-Fink — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:00:45 +0000

Has global warming put the kibosh on the predictability of a blanket of white fluff where you live? It’s easy to bring home that snowy feeling this holiday. Start a new tradition and design an enchanted winter white eco-holiday theme this year. I get nostalgic each year when I unpack the boxes of [...]