Give the Planet a gift at Christmas

The Green Guide for Christmas contains:

• more than 200 of the best green, ethical and natural gift
  suggestions - including pictures, prices, short description and contact info
• over 600 listings of planet–friendly mail order suppliers, retailers and organisations - following the Green Guide listing style
• details of the best green shopping websites and ethical catalogues
• tips and advice on how to make your Christmas greener by saving energy, reducing waste and shopping less.

The Green Guide for Christmas covers Food, Drink, Gifts, Cards, Decorations, Shopping and all things for Christmas - but with a planet-friendly, natural and ethical slant. It contains 128 pages with 64 in colour showing great green gifts for giving this Christmas.

For greener gift giving choose from organic, eco-friendly or ethical food, hampers, clothes, shoes, accessories, chocolates, wine, cosmetics, gadgets, jewellery, toys, furniture, vouchers, cards, trees, trimmings, decorations, books, magazines and much more.

Or consider giving something completely different. Take out a second mortgage – but for a family in the developing world. A whole new house costs £2,000 and your investment in their building societies will provide the working capital for a revolving fund. Or you could plant chilli hedges to protect villagers’ crops from marauding elephants. And why not give a voucher for an organic cookery weekend or a course on low impact living – or maybe splash out on an environmental research trip.

Or you could buy an acre of rainforest; adopt a dolphin, a barn owl or an orangutan; send medicines to developing countries; plant a tree; sponsor bees, cattle or goats; or build a loo, endow a library and dig a well.

The Guide also shows you how can save energy and reduce waste over the festive season. And, if you plan to travel to friends and relatives or go away for a holiday, there is advice on greener travel and ethical tourism.

There is something planet-friendly for everyone in the Green Guide for Christmas – whether for you, your family and friends, or for people you’ve never even met.

The Green Guide for Christmas was published on 10th November 2006.

Download a sample PDF - Christmas 2006 Sample

Read the Green Guide's advice for a Green Christmas