Environmental Defense: Greening the Holidays
Ten earth-friendly ideas to spark your imagination
Intangibles can deliver green good all year long (and reduce clutter)
1. Donate time or money to a charity in honor of the gift recipient (a gift to Environmental Defense is a good choice).
2. Buy carbon offsets in the recipient’s name. Along with cutting your own carbon emissions — and fuel bills — help your friends and family offset theirs.
3. Give a national parks pass or a membership to botanical gardens or aquariums. (For an extra-special gift, surprise with a cross-country train tour or an eco-vacation.)
Stocking stuffers can be “green”
4. Give energy-saving light bulbs. The technology in these earth-friendly bulbs has leapt ahead, and they now come in many shapes and sizes (See Environmental Defense’s bulb guide for specifics.)
5. Consider the DVD “An Inconvenient Truth“; in bookstores and video stores everywhere.
It’s that time of year again: eight-pound bags of "fun-size" candy fill whole aisles at the grocery store and houses in the neighborhood are sprouting plastic pumpkins, foam headstones and other ghoulish decor. According to the 
