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Yesterday I posted a piece on Buy Nothing Day and consumerism.
Some family members have communicated to us that they do not want the traditional gifts this year at Christmas and have made this request.
Consider making a donation to Food for the Poor instead of buying a material gift. We have so much and there are many in Latin America and the Caribbean who have nothing. Food for the Poor has a 96% fundraising efficiency rate, with less than 4% of donations going towards administrative costs.
I will be updating my Café à la Green page to promote alternative ideas for gift giving this season.
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Have a heart: Be kind to your Valentine…..and humanity.
For the chocolate lovers out there, here are places you can purchase fair trade chocolate:
Utah
Ten Thousand Villages (They have Fair Trade goods here–I’m assuming they would have chocolate….)
Online
Global Exchange
Divine Heavenly Chocolate
Dubble
Lutheran World Relief
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The site Question War has a new magnetic ribbon for your bicycle or car or other surface:
The magnet is 3.875” x 8”, die-cut, and MADE IN USA with highest-quality materials. 10% of profits donated to groups working towards a sustainable, just and compassionate world.
Question War is a member of the Peace Merchants Association.
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This just in:
The Peace Company has peace gifts in every price range. Here are some features:
As this year draws to a close and our thoughts turn to the holidays and time with friends and family, we ask you to help make the spirit of peace the way we live – everyday. By planting seeds of peace within your heart and sharing them with others, we truly can help make peace more pervasive in our societies.
The Peace Company’s mission is to help make peace the way we all relate to the world. We offer merchandise and educational opportunites to enable anyone to walk the path of peace. Please help spread peaceful possibilities by sharing gifts of peace this holiday.
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I have updated my gift giving page and reorganized it so it isn’t so daunting. Check out
Café à la Green: Socially Responsible and Environmentally Friendly Holiday Gift Ideas.
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Jen’s Green Journal has a post on an Amnesty International write-a-thon for Human Rights Day on December 10.
Today Amnesty sent out an invitation for folks to give an
Amnesty International gift membership for the holidays. Here is the message:
The holiday season is here, and what better present for your loved ones than an Amnesty International gift membership? Especially if their truest holiday wish is dignity and human rights for all people around the world.
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Jen’s Green Journal has an excellent list and review of places to obtain socially responsible, environmentally friendly gifts for the holidays and other occasions. I have had her link on my Green Cafe Gift Giving Ideas page, but I wanted to highlight Jenni’s in a separate post here.
Jenni offers personal reviews of items she has personally looked into and recommends, something I don’t necessarily have the time to do. So for a more in depth look at gifts you can purchase, visit Jenni’s gift ideas list.
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I wanted to do something special and unique for my family this year for Christmas. This past summer I took as many digital photos as I could of my mom’s photo albums of all our family members – from my grandmother on up and all around. I am taking those photos and making calendars with photos of family members – on the months of their birthdays and anniversaries and also collages, etc. on the other pages.
Fortunately I have one of those machine-thingys with which you can put calendars together with the plastic spiral spines.
One challenge is fitting in photos on months with multiple birthdays – There are 3 birthdays and 1 anniversary in October, for example!
Here are some photos of me that I took from my mom’s albums:
Greg Gerritt, a GPUS delegate from Rhode Island, sent out this article on the Buy Nothing Day event there. I had a lengthy conversation about the project with him this afteroon. It’s way cool, a great networking tool and benefits the community. This project has been going on Buy Nothing Day since 1997. It’s got my wheels turning!
Coat giveaway makes its own fashion statement
Buy Nothing Day, held on one of the busiest holiday shopping days, puts the spotlight on area’s needy.
BY BRANDIE JEFFERSON
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — There were plenty of coats on sale at the Providence Place mall yesterday for 10percent 25 percent, even 50 percent off. But across the street, on the State House lawn, hundreds of people were
getting coats, sweaters, hats and books for an unbeatable price Free.
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Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 