Eco Tuesday: How to Green your Thanksgiving

It’s that time of the year, next week will be Thanksgiving. Time for family and friends to get together and celebrate. Many don’t know what they’re celebrating but they’re doing it! If you want to catch up what Thanksgiving is about visit here to refresh your memory.

Some view Thanksgiving as the day they can start putting up Christmas trees, decorations and then of course the ones who live for Black Friday which is the furthest thing from being green.

Want to be green, even for a day? Instead of doing Black Friday, do Buy Nothing Day (that’s what I do, course I don’t buy much on any given day anyhow).

I think the guys have a better idea about Thanksgiving (no offense to women, since I am one), but playing football all morning til the big game is on is much better than organizing a shopping plan for the following morning.

Meanwhile, here are 10 steps to an eco friendly holiday party. They’re easy, fun and creative; additionally, helping the environment which I’m sure our planet would be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day.

Here are some other tips:
A drastic tip would be to have a vegan or vegetarian meal. Yep, that means no turkey or ham but, there are lots of delicious alternatives and you can get the recipes here at vegcoooking.com

I know that’s not realistic for a lot of people, so there will be many of you still out shopping. When you do go shopping, use a reusable bag.

Buy your foods locally. Don’t know where to do that,
LocalHarvest.org will show you where to get local foods.

If you are going to cook, then try to compost the fruit and vegetable trimmings, left overs.

Once done with the eating and cooking, you’ll have to do clean up. We know that’s never fun and takes awhile but with the Scrubber Sponge it scrubs of stuck on food, is perfect for washing dishes and is biodegradable, too.

If you’re traveling, consider buying carbon offsets to offset the damage done.
If traveling by car, make sure to inflate tires to proper amount and not taking lots of extra weight lugging down the vehicle.

I could go on and on but won’t because most people (like myself) don’t/won’t read long long blogs! lol
So, make whatever changes you can that you’re comfortable with and have a green Thanksgiving and a fun loving one full of gratitude!

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