Switch To Green Gifting Ideas This Season!

By Author: Christopher Bell
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While green gifts are usually associated with being creative and unique, the truth is you can get some very common items that are far greener than their competitors. Giving green gifts can help the planet by lowering your carbon footprint, but they can also encourage your friends to take a more green outlook when purchasing items. But if they're already interesting in conserving, a green gift will be far more appreciated than a gift that is not green.

Here are a few ideas for green gifts—common items that people use every day—that will have you looking at different types of gifts than you normally do. You will also find that buying “green” is not necessarily more expensive, as most people believe. In fact, you may find yourself saving money to boot.

Office Products



Sure, it sounds lame, but who doesn't love office products? And there are so many choices that utilize recycled paper. For this green gift idea, consider putting together a gift of paper products including papers, envelopes, flip charts and even letterheads and envelopes. You'll also find ...
... report covers, index cards or filing and school supplies, plus tablets, pads, and self-stick notes. You can put together a wonderful gift for students, people who write a lot, or keep a home office, or a hobby—such as creating or keeping recipes.

Organic Coffee


Another green gift idea is organic coffee. Organic coffee growers produce environmentally friendly coffees by sticking to specific techniques and standards. They are pesticide and toxin free, free trade and shade-grown in optimally healthy soil created with composting and recycling practices as opposed to clear-cutting rainforest to create a coffee plantation. And you'll find a great array of organic and free trade coffees to choose from, like Guatemalan Organic Roast, Organic Espresso Roast and many others. Put together a gift featuring several organic coffees for your java loving friends and loved ones for a terrific gift for many mornings to come.

Organic Teas


Organic teas are well known to be high in anti-oxidants—which delay signs of aging so you look younger—and also to treat illness or weaknesses. Look for teas that use only natural ingredients and were grown organically, and you'll find choices like organic green teas, rooibos and black teas that are sure to please tea drinkers, and what an une xpected green gift idea.

New Energy Saving Light bulbs


Which of us haven't thought about converting all of our household bulbs to the super energy-saving bulbs that have come on the market. Perhaps you just haven't gotten around to it or the price of the new bulbs has caused you to delay buying them. How this for a green gift idea: Give a pack or two of the best energy-saving bulbs, the fancy kind that cost less to light and last a very long time. They not only make an unexpected and greatly appreciated gift, but the recipient will save money on their energy expensive as well (and they won't have to buy light bulbs for a long time due to the long life new bulbs have).

Christopher Reilly is a freelance writer with Green Line Paper Company, dedicated solely to the sales of quality, environmentally-sound products inluding green office supplies and recycled containers. Visit the Green Line Paper Company website for more information about green gift ideas.