Green Options

Celebrate Green by mother daughter team Lynn Colwell and Corey Colwell-Lipson is the green book to have because it covers aspects of greening pretty much every holiday and celebration and it has some great ideas for the holidays that are currently coming our way.

Halloween is right around the corner and Celebrate Green has a lot to say about greening Halloween including some crafty things you can do yourself like make your own face paints, create fun costumes and decorations, even turn everyday ordinary objects into candy buckets and containers.

It’s also full of yummy recipes and fun ideas for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

This post was originally published on Eco-Libris blog on October 27.

We’re back with our beloved Monday’s green books series, and today we’re celebrating! Our book today is:

“Celebrate Green! Creating Eco-Savvy Holidays, Celebrations & Traditions for the Whole Family” by Corey Colwell-Lipson & Lynn Colwell

Few weeks ago we announced here on our collaboration with the authors (buyers of the book on the Celebrate Green! website are offered to plant a tree with their copy of Celebrate Green!) and today we’re happy to review the book and to give away one copy of it.

I read quite a few guides for green living in the last year or so, but this is the first guide I know that is focused on holidays and celebrations. Why? the authors explain: “the reason it’s important to green up our celebrations is that holidays and special days are plentiful…holidays and special days don’t happen on one day only in one place; they occur throughout the year in homes, schools, and places of work across the globe.” (p. 20)

Two Washington State women — Corey Colwell-Lipson and her mom, Lynn Colwell — have come out with a great new green guide that’s just in time for (dare I say it?) the holiday season.

Titled Celebrate Green!: Creating Eco-Savvy Holidays, Celebrations & Traditions for the Whole Family (2008, The Green Year), their book offers a wealth of tips, resources and background on how (and why) to make your celebrations eco-friendly, whether it’s a house-full-of-guests Thanksgiving feast, a gathering of friends at a baby shower, an office party or a Halloween gathering for the neighborhood kids.