4 posts tagged “holidays”

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Organic Dark Chocolate with Pure Cocoa Nibs (68 % cocoa)

For the chocolate fanatic— try this bar for a delicious combination of smooth, dark chocolate and crunchy bits of roasted cocoa beans (nibs). You’ll find delight in this incredibly delicious “double” chocolate experience. This bar is made with cocoa from the farmer cooperatives CONACADO, in the Dominican Republic, and CACVRA, in Peru, and the fairly traded organic sugar comes from cooperatives in Paraguay and Costa Rica.

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No one wants to give up on the holidays or the sense of abundance that the season bestows. The only question is how to be generous without bankrupting the earth. Here are some thoughts.

Give things people need and can use

Choose gifts made of sustainable materials

Buy locally made products

Look for used things with a provenance

Give things that reduce energy usage

Avoid excessively packaged products

Give tickets

Give a party

Give of yourself

Swap contributions to non-profits

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From Thanksgiving to New Years Day, household waste increases by more than 25%. Added food waste, shopping bags, packaging, wrapping paper, bows and ribbons - it all adds up to an additional 1 million tons a week to our landfills.

In the U.S., annual trash from gift wrap and shopping bags totals 4 million tons.

1.9 billion Christmas cards are sent to friends and loved ones every year, making Christmas the largest card-sending occasion in the United States.

The amount of cards sold during the holiday season would fill a football field 10 stories high, and requires the harvesting of nearly 300,000 trees.

38,000 miles of ribbon is thrown out each year. The Earth's circumference is 25,000 miles - enough to tie a bow around the Earth.

Half of the paper America consumes is used to wrap and decorate consumer products.