Green Blog Gift Guide: Presenting Your Presents

How exactly to give your gift is an important decision – do you want to use fancy, sparkly wrapping paper, or do you want to give your gift in a bag? How about a giving out a gift basket to your loved ones for this Holiday Season? As you can see, there are a lot of options when it comes to actually presenting your presents on Christmas.

If you decide to go with wrapping paper, you may want to consider using old newspapers. Not only will this save you money from not having to go to the store and buy wrapping paper, but it’s a great way to get rid of your old, unwanted newspapers. For children, you might want to wrap their gifts using the funny pages – this assures a colorful and fun present right from the start. However, gift boxes and gift baskets have become far more common these days, and you may even want to forego wrapping paper altogether for one of these alternatives.

And lastly, always remember to minimize the amount of materials you do use when wrapping your presents, and try to save your gift boxes, bags and baskets to reuse them next year. Finally, recycle all of your Christmas wrapping paper, no matter what material was used. By keeping the three R’s in mind, you can help make this a great Holiday season not only for yourself and for your loved ones, but for our environment as well.

Green Blog Gift Guide: Battery Chargers

Battery chargers make for great “Green” or environmentally-friendly gifts for the simple fact that nearly everybody has a use for batteries – flashlights, remote controls, smoke detectors, they all take batteries, as do many children’s toys. By giving the gift of a battery charger to a friend or family member, you’ll not only save them money in the long run by not having to buy new batteries, but they will also be helping to save the environment, as well. Below are some great battery chargers offered by Amazon.com - and of course you can read the user reviews about each one to make sure that it is exactly what you are looking for!

La Crosse Technology BC-900 AlphaPower Battery Charger

This seems to be the most popular solar charger, and it comes with tons of accessories, including 4 AA and 4 AAA rechargeable batteries. This is a great way to get started with rechargeable batteries, and it makes a great gift idea. Best of all, it’s less than $40!

However, if you are looking for a gift idea that is even more “Green” and environmentally-friendly, then this solar powered battery charger is the perfect choice!

4 Battery Solar Charger by SunJia

It features all of the same charging capabilities as the one above, only this works on the power of the sun!

The Holidays Are Approaching Very Quickly...

The holidays are approaching very quickly and everyone here at the Green Blog would just like to wish all of our viewers a safe and Happy Holiday season! Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and soon after that Christmas – and before you know it we will be celebrating the New Year! They just keep going by faster and faster every single year, don’t they?

Anyway, you can expect some more frequent updates here on the Green Blog, even throughout the Holiday season. We’ve got some great environmentally friendly gift ideas coming your way, and of course a whole lot more! So stay tuned to the Green Blog for much more coming very soon!