It's that time of year, again. American Thanksgiving has been celebrated, and all over North America the festive lights, the sales, the commercials, and that man in the red suit creep out of hiding and gradually take over public spaces and infiltrate brains, all across the continent.

It's not that I don't love the jingle of bells. It's just the way that advertisers seize on the festive spirit and use it to manipulate us into buying their products that bothers me. The holiday season can also be incredibly wasteful, with the strings of extra lights, the discarded wrapping paper, the extra traveling, the presents that we buy for the sake of buying something, that no one ever uses. It's up to you to decide what the holiday season means to you, but it's up to all of us not to lose sight of what we're doing to the environment while we're celebrating.
I'll be posting more green holiday tips over the next month, but in the meantime here's Rustle the leaf. He has a few ideas on how to make somebody's holiday extra green. Let's not forget the world around us.