This holiday season, Environmental Defence is sharing ways to protect the environment with their Top 5 Tips for a Green Holiday Season:
1. Tell Sears you don't want their 1083-page Wish Book Christmas Catalogue. Canada's largest catalogue is made from clearcut forests and threatened woodland caribou habitat in Ontario. It also uses as much energy to produce as the equivalent of 3,300 homes annually. Why not go online instead or take the bus to your local Sears store?
2. Replace your Christmas lights. Use low-energy LED lights and help reduce the annual holiday power surge! Check to see if your local utility is sponsoring an exchange program.
3. Skip the plastic. Using re-usable shopping bags can reduce the approximately 65,000 tonnes of plastic that is thrown away during the holidays in Canada. You will save on fossil fuel consumption too!
4. For your tree. The best thing you can do is use a locally-grown potted tree that can be replanted in the spring. If you buy a cut tree, then make sure that it is from a local tree-farm. While cutting the tree adds to your carbon footprint, the tree that will be replanted to replace it is your carbon offset.
5. Eat local. Reducing the distance your holiday food has to travel not only lowers your carbon footprint, it support local economies.
Support Environmental Defence by giving the Gift of Green to family and friends on your list who are concerned about the planet.
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