Sustainable Advent Calendar Ideas
Are advent calendars one of your holiday traditions? Instead of purchasing a disposable calendar, try reducing your carbon footprint by making your own! We have two suggestions for your DIY advent calendar:
1. Providing sweets? Reduce packaging
Making your own calendar is great, but you will still be producing a lot of waste if your calendar is filled with individually packaged sweets. If you want to include daily sweets, try filling your own jars with candy from a bulk food store and incorporating those goodies into your calendar. This works especially well if you make a mason jar advent calendar.
2. Consider giving daily experiences instead of tangible items
Instead of candy or toys, try putting experiences into your calendar! Kids could even help choose the activities that are included. Sledding, movie nights, crafting, baking, and volunteering are just a few examples of some fun activities!
Whatever you and your family, friends, or coworkers choose this holiday season, remember to take waste reduction into consideration. Protecting our planet today is the best gift we can give future generations.
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Merry, Green + Bright: Sustainable Holiday Guide
With each coming year, many folks are looking at more ways they can make their holiday season more environmentally friendly.
Merry, Green + Bright: Sustainable Holiday Guide
With each coming year, many folks are looking at more ways they can make their holiday season more environmentally friendly.
Earth Keepers Youth Program (AB)
Born of the Sustainable Communities Team; our presentations and activities revolve around addressing waste diversion (finding better solutions for ‘garbage’ than landfills, like recycling and composting) holistically and in tandem with our other impacts on our environment. We offer classroom presentations as well as more in depth-learning exercises.
Earth Keepers Youth Program (AB)
Born of the Sustainable Communities Team; our presentations and activities revolve around addressing waste diversion (finding better solutions for ‘garbage’ than landfills, like recycling and composting) holistically and in tandem with our other impacts on our environment. We offer classroom presentations as well as more in depth-learning exercises.
FNWM: Consumer (Household) Batteries
Removing electronic waste from your landfill helps protect the environment and community health from dangerous materials contained in the e-waste.
FNWM: Consumer (Household) Batteries
Removing electronic waste from your landfill helps protect the environment and community health from dangerous materials contained in the e-waste.
FNWM: Electronic Waste
Consumer batteries are among the easiest materials to collect in yourcommunity for recycling. Call2Recycle will cover the cost of shipping consumer batteries from your community if you become a collection partner and follow their guidelines.
FNWM: Electronic Waste
Consumer batteries are among the easiest materials to collect in yourcommunity for recycling. Call2Recycle will cover the cost of shipping consumer batteries from your community if you become a collection partner and follow their guidelines.