Hottest Christmas Gifts for Mother Earth

Hottest Christmas Gifts that Can Save your Children’s Lives

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By now most of us have finished with our Christmas shopping. Gift-giving is a tradition that makes children and stores happy. Have you completed your list already? Have you remembered to buy gifts for everyone? Your kids, your friends, your parents, your brothers and sisters, your officemates all are receiving the hottest Christmas gifts. But do you have any gifts for the environment?

The environment gives us food everyday. It gives us water to drink. It gives us clothes to wear. It gives us protection fro cold and roof above our heads. The environment gives us the stones for our jewelries. Come to think of it, Mother Earth is giving us so much. Maybe it’s time we also give the hottest Christmas gifts for her.

Stop wasting too much. That’s one Christmas gift Mother Earth will really appreciate. Don’t buy food and things that is too much for you. I’m sure the earth will be very happy next year when her landfills are cleaner and she’s got less garbage.

Save on electricity. Even if you have a lot of money to pay for your electric bills, the oil that is used to power the electrical appliances at home is non-renewable which means that when the oil reserves in the world is gone, it will be gone forever. Mother Earth will be very happy if we find other ways to power our electrical appliances and stop the wars that are happening in the world today because of fight of oil resources.

Perhaps one of the hottest Christmas gifts that we can give to Mother Earth this year is to spread the information that we need to save her or else we will all perish. How many people died this year because of floods, hurricanes, landslides, heat waves, frost bite, sea and ocean accidents, and not to mention wars over resources? Lives are being lost because there’s still a lot of people who don’t know that ultimately it will be us humans who will suffer if we don’t take care of Mother Earth.

Mother earth has been taking care of our needs for millions of years now, it’s now time that we take care of her too because her survival and ours too depend on it. That’s the hottest Christmas gift all of us can receive this Christmas.

Cloth Gift Wrappers and Other Tips for Christmas Gifts

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It’s the season for company, school and family Christmas parties. Food, booze and spirit of camaraderie and merry making are filling the air wherever you turn your face to. During these Christmas parties, exchange gifts and gift-giving are two things that are always part of the program. How do we make gift wrapping and gift giving green?

If you go to the malls, you’ll notice that not only the cashier counters have long lines of customers. There are also long lines even at the gift wrapping sections. Gift wrapping is free for a minimum purchase of specific amount in almost all malls in the Philippines. Why will not people take advantage of it?

One reason why you can forgo lining at the gift wrapping section of your favorite malls is environmental issue. Every Christmas, we wrap our gifts with paper which we will only put into trash. How many trees and how much oil were used to manufacture these gift wrappers? How many trees and how much energy can we save if we use cloth and other alternative gift wrappers for our Christmas gifts?

I often use big colorful scarves as gift wrappers for the gifts that I will give to female friends. I didn’t destroy the wrappers of the gifts I received last year. Now I can use them again and I encourage my friends to do the same.

We have a yearly family reunion and this year, I am the organizer. I asked my cousins to give something that is not bought. It can be a junk art or a video clip or a a photo display from scrap or poetry or a pledge of action for the person whom we are giving gifts. My cousins thought it was a good idea and I’m sure we’ll be having a more memorable and GREEN Christmas party/ family reunion this 26th.

Giving is the spirit of Christmas but we don’t always need to give material things. It reduces our planet’s waste. It reduces our consumption of resources. It reduces the degradation of our environment. Green is the way to go this Christmas.