a green Christmas after all

The Daily Green offers a comprehensive Holiday Gift Guide full of fantastic ideas for those looking to buy green gifts.

I'm partial to the Gifts Under $20 section, myself! There are some really nifty ideas to be found for inexpensive yet environmentally-friendly gifts.

Alternatively, for those not looking to buy tangible gifts, a day at the spa, theatre tickets, a volunteering-vacation and planting a tree are just some of the ways that a gift can be given without actually giving 'stuff'.

Happy shopping!

carbon neutral music

From our friends at the daily green, here's today's 'one thing' - see a show by a musician that's going green.

If you enjoy live music, think of the substantial footprint - staging, signage, costumes, tour buses, and lights, not to mention the pounds of food wrappers, cans and other garbage left behind at the venue.

Radiohead's Thom Yorke has been taking the issue of global warming to the fans, while Coldplay innovated by making their CDs carbon neutral. Scottish sensation KT Tunstall tours in buses fueled with biodiesel...read on

Support homegrown talent too, like the Barenaked Ladies and Sarah Harmer. (Jack Johnson is American, but pictured for his green efforts and good looks ;)