Christmas is for gifts, good food and company. Here, mountains are created to wrapping paper, and dry fir trees and the remains of a sumptuous feast food that must be thrown away.
This is especially for the Eco-balance is bad.
With these eight Tricks for Christmas can be made a little more sustainable – without that, you have to give something up.
1. Send invitations via the Internet
Most of the plans for Christmas are long. But who wants to invite his family and friends with a nice card to his Christmas party, you can do this easily online. And there must not be dispensed with funny sayings and a pretty Layout. There are Websites such as Paperless Post, which Designs and personalized can be selected.
This saves the expensive postage and the Other is a lot of Material.
2. Buy local food
At the Christmas feast, there must be something Special to eat. But it is also quite simple with foods from the Region can conjure up. From Cabbage, pumpkin, parsnips, potatoes, spinach, Brussels sprouts, green cabbage or red cabbage in the December season, a delicious Christmas menu spells.
How about a creamy carrot-parsnip-soup for Appetizer and a Kale salad with Tahini Dressing as a side dish?
And to stroll About the wintry week market is on the great Feast.
3. Distribute Foodie-Bags
After a sumptuous Christmas dinner a lot of food remains, mostly, because to cook Yes but each Time more than you can actually eat.
A very simple solution to the problem: ask your guests beforehand, in addition to gifts, also Tupper doses to bring. So everyone can take home at the end of the Evening, a Foodie box with a small bow of the gift remains decorated and looks very festive.
4. Sustainable candles using
Candles are an indispensable part of the Christmas season. They make for a cosy atmosphere and are an integral part of the advent wreath. The commercially available candles you get in the Store, however, there is made of Paraffin obtained from petroleum and are not sustainable.
Prefer to candles made from recycled biomass use, for the only fats made from renewable raw materials are used. Alternatively, there are also candles made from bees wax, but are more expensive.
Upcycling tip: leftover Candles can be melted together in a water bath and poured to a new candle. As a candle jar is an old Jar, for example, is.
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5. Christmas tree for rent
To a Christmas feast, a decorated Christmas tree. After the Christmas days, of the lands, however, quickly may be overstating it fully on the road. To prevent can also be rented just a fir tree. Then comes alive in a pot to a home and can be returned upon your completion of the Christmas service.
Different providers offer in different regions of the Miettanne.
Those who prefer to have their own tree, can not rely on ecological firs, which come from mono-cultures. On the website Robin-wood-sale of Eco are listed-Christmas trees.
6. On alternative gift paper
Full of effort, wrapped up the Christmas gifts and with the loops provided, only within a Minute the paper is torn. The paper looks nice, but is of long duration.
Who would not want to dispense with one beautiful packaging, can be ecologically using recycled wrapping paper. It is also nice to look at – and at the same time more sustainable than conventional paper.
A good Alternative newspaper, which would anyway end up in the bin. With a couple of felt-tip pens beautiful motifs on it and draw. Old calendars, magazines or books pages can be converted to wrapping paper.
7. Decorations and Tree ornaments from nature
Christmas mood not only comes with Tinsel and plastic Christmas balls. Special accessories for the dinner table and the Christmas tree can also be used, of course. Dried orange slices or Cinnamon sticks, self-made star made of straw, pine cones, moss and acorns to bring the apartment on Christmas course.
For the Christmas tree can also be easily trailer it yourself with salt dough. To do this, flour, salt and water mix and with Cups cut out. The cookies, let it dry, and then with any color paint. This is not only fun for children.
In the case of the light chain the choice of energy-saving LED falling lights. Consume less energy and last longer than traditional light strings.
8. Gifts
A gift should not be of giving will be made. It should bring joy, and not with a forced Smile and a “Thank you” the next day, in the Depths of the basement disappear. If nothing comes to mind, which can the other happy, it is never wrong to give the gift of time together. A coupon run for a common Breakfast or ice skating is always a reason for joy.
Or how about something homemade? Chocolates, roasted almonds or jam from the kitchen are classics. Alternatively, a lip scrub made of sea salt, honey and coconut oil or a body lotion of Shea butter and almond oil is easy to prepare.
Luisa High Brink
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