December 2008 Archives

What were the most popular green products of 2008?

Here at The Fun Times Guide to Living green, it was all about greener shopping and lawn care habits!

Merry Christmas from The Fun Times Guide to Living Green!

It's not too late to send your friends and family a Christmas ecard.

This is a simple sample of a Holiday eCard that you could make in 10 minutes. ...you just can't use pics of me, my wife, and our dogs.

"Oh crap! We were supposed to bring something to that Christmas party!"

Ever said those words before?

Don't get caught with your pants down at this year's party.

These Oreo (actually they're Newman's Own brand "Newman-O's") Truffles are super easy and quick to fix.

The best part...all your vegetarian friends can enjoy them too--and boy are they enjoyable!

Maybe too enjoyable!

Looking for some great last minute Christmas gifts?

Of course you are! Check out these great green Christmas gifts that you can still get before the 25th arrives...and all but one of them are under $10!

It's almost time for Christmas and that means [cue scary music]...

Holiday house guests.

AHHHHH.

True, an alcohol IV would definitely help take the edge off, but there have got to be better ways to deal with company during the holidays, doesn't there?

Sure there are!

But what if your guests aren't green? Here are some great ways to circumvent that as well.

Christmas. It is the mortal enemy of trees around the world.

Why?

KearnyHub.com says that Americans throw away 38,000 miles of ribbon, buy 2.65 billion holiday cards, and chop down 33 million christmas trees during the holidays each year.

Guess where all those cards, the ribbon, the wrapping paper, and trees end up after the new year?

Yep, the dump. Merry Hanaquanzimas Planet Earth.

On top of that, you don't even get a chance to be eco-friendly during the holidays since traditional wrapping paper isn't even recyclable.

Yikes!

So what CAN you do to help green that christmas gift wrapping?

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