holidays

Holiday Pad 2.0 is curating a list of the best examples of off-grid vacation/holiday ideas. The photo is of a nomadic campsite located in the imposing sand dunes of Chegaga near Ouarzazate (for the Geographically challenged, that's in Morocco!)

Ski company goes green to combat clobal warming. Chalet 1802, based in Chamonix, has taken the lead in the ski industry by reducing their carbon footprint and then offsetting the rest.

Kodora Sato and Oliver Blivious report on street riots throughout the city!

This year Americans are projected to send 2 billion Christmas cards. The vast majority of those will end up in landfills and the cost of postage alone will be $840 million.

The solution is to earn some serious cool points and create a FREE photo slideshow eCard, complete with falling snowflakes and swaying ornaments.

A great article about doing more this holiday instead of less - more to bring education & health care to children, more trees, more recycling, and more hope.

This holiday season, comsumers like you and I will recieve thousands of packages from Amazom.com. This convenience generates a lot of waste. Check out this guide from Go Green Charleston for the lowdown on how to keep Amazon's packaging materials out of the landfill. Pass this along to friends!

Green gifts for the whole family.

It's amazing how much paper is wasted each year with gift wrapping. Here are some easy ways to save money and go easier on the environment, all while wrapping a gift that will be sure to get noticed under the tree this year.

As the song goes, it’s “the most wonderful time of the year.” But what most Americans don’t realize is that the holiday season is also one of the most challenging times of the year for the environment, generating wasted energy, added pollutants and millions of tons of extra trash.

High gas prices got you down? It's actually easy to save some gas money, and reduce your carbon emissions. Why not do it over Thanksgiving, when the spirit of the holidays are in the air, and you have to get to Grandma's?

Businesses around the world are working to reduce their impact on the environment. How does one of the planet's leading toy manufacturers and distributors measure up?

This online service was founded by three environmental groups to help consumers gain control of their mailboxes.

Take a few moments now and come up with your holiday season plan.

Local Harvest is probably the most comprehensive site for ‘real food, real farmers, real community’. Local Harvest serves many purposes.