Green Christmas

A step-by-step guide to help you have a Green Christmas, one that will be a blessing for the environment as well as your family.

Shop and ship green this holiday season with the Holiday Shopping Guide from Climate Counts, which ranks retail and shipping companies according to the effectiveness of their efforts to help curb global warming.

Every Christmas you ask the same question: Is it better to get a real Christmas tree that has to be discarded after a few weeks, or a fake Christmas tree you can use year after year? Learn about the potential health and environmental consequences of both choices, and a better alternative.

All you have to do is look at your January credit card statement to know that Christmas doesn’t come cheap these days. But that’s just the financial cost of Christmas. What about the environmental cost?