Green Options

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.