Today I’ll be speaking to a friendly audience up the hill at the Yale Divinity School. The topic? Finding Your Own Way to Greenness: Tips and Tools for Greening Up Your Holidays. I will have a slideshow in Keynote, and business cards with a QR code to this page. Following is a summary with links to some of the topics I will cover.
SOME OF MY INSPIRATIONS
BUY NOTHING CHRISTMAS/OCCUPY CHRISTMAS
Buy Nothing Christmas was started by Mennonites on the Canadian West Coast in 2001.
Occupy has morphed this idea into a campaign to support local businesses and alternatives to corporate retailers. Check out the movement's Facebook page for more. One suggestion is to support local, independent businesses.
Etsy is another way. Etsy is an “online marketplace” to buy and sell things handmade, supplies, and vintage items. Etsy's mission is “to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers.” Its vision is “to build a new economy and present a better choice.” Its tagline is “Buy, Sell, and Live Handmade.” Buyers and sellers come from 150 countries, and Etsy sellers number in the hundreds of thousands.
Here are some of my suggestions:
LOCAL MERCHANTS
- Atticus Bookstore and Cafe
- CitySeed Farmers Markets
- Devil’s Gear Bicycle Shop
- Elm City Market Co-Op
- Foundry Music
- Group W Bench
- Hull's
- Katahdin Furniture
- Knit New Haven
- Trailblazer
- Willoughby’s Coffee and Tea
SHOPPING TOOLS
A NIGHT ON THE TOWN
Farm to Table Restaurants
- 116 Crown
- Caseus
- Claire’s
- Kitchen Zinc
Entertainment
- Criterion Cinema
- Long Wharf Theatre
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra
- Shubert Theater
- Yale Rep
Check out Info New Haven for current promotions for shopping downtown.
SHOPPING FOR GOOD
- 10,000 Villages
- CAW
- Peabody Museum
- Yale British Art Center
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Albers Kits
REPURPOSING/VINTAGE SHOPPING
- English Building Markets
- Fashionista
- Helping Hands Community Thrift Store & Furniture Bank
- IKEA Hacking
- Wiki-How
GIFTING FOOD
FOR THE PERSON WHO HAS EVERYTHING
- Heifer International
- KIVA: http://www.kiva.org/
- Oxfam America
- Check out my last year’s post on 10 Worthy Causes.
FOR SOME OF MY OWN PERSONAL GIFT IDEAS
Check out some of my other 10 Things Thursdays on a variety of topics from stocking stuffers, mementos for those who live far away, gifts for kids.
- 10 Random Things
- 10 Things to Stuff in a Stocking
- 10 Things to Wear
- 10 Useful Things
- 10 Things to Buy for the Cook
- 10 Things to Buy For Kids
CULINARY ADVENTURES
Check out this great tool: Google with recipe view
And tales of my culinary adventures with:
FOR MORE ON WASTE
CREATIVE WRAPPING IDEAS
And for shipping something heavy, or to a rural area, learn more about If it fits, it ships!
In conclusion, as a new Seafood Watch Advocate, I handed out the Northeast version of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch pocket guide as stocking stuffers. Here is the link to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Advocate Program.
Thanks to everyone who joined me on the road!
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