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Green Gifts
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Green Gifts At-a-Glance
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Help cut down on waste and try some of these environmentally friendly gift ideas this Hanukkah.
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Early Childhood
Ages 5-7
Ages 8-10
Ages 11-13
Ages 14-17 (High School)
Ages 18-21 (College)
Adults
Family/Community
Seniors
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Community Center
Hillel
Religious/Day School
Synagogue
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Advocacy
Community Service
Educational Program
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Sermon/Reading/Discussion
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Air/Water/Trees
Baal Tashchit/Waste/Recycling
Energy/Global Warming
Environmental Health and Justice
Shmittah/Land Use/Agriculture
Sustainability
Tikkun Olam/Stewardship/Values and Ethics
Other
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Chanukkah
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Description
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Help cut down on waste and try some of these environmentally friendly gift ideas this Hanukkah:
- Save paper and send an e-card. You can design it yourself! There are dozens of on-line sites to do this. You could also make your own card with recycled paper if you're feeling artistic! To create an e-card, visit one of the following Web sites:
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/chanukah/ecard.html
http://www.e-cards.com/catalog/cat-selection.pl?cat=Hanukkah
http://www.newdream.org/greeting/servlet/cardCreation
- Make your own gifts! Especially from children, homemade gifts are often more special than anything you can buy. Take a photo and design a frame for it, knit a scarf for the winter, or make a set of beeswax candles for someone to burn in their Hanukkiah. In your crafts, you can use empty paper towel or toilet paper rolls, plastic bottles, etc. There are lots of great books about homemade gifts in your library; check one out today!
- Give Hanukkah gelt in the form of Tzedakah to a Jewish or environmental organization of your choice in honor of a friend or relative. "Adopt" an animal, plant a tree or buy an acre of rain forest in someone's honor.
- Food! Edible gifts are always great for holidays. Bake someone a batch of cookies in Hanukkah shapes, cook soofganiot (jelly doughnuts- a traditional Hanukkah treat), or be more creative.
- Get something that's both useful and reusable: a travel mug, cloth bag, linen napkins, reusable lunchbox, etc.
- Make your own gift certificate or coupon. You could give someone "a night at the movies," "one week of walking the dog," etc. This is a great way to give somebody exactly what they want!
- Buy someone an environmental book, subscription to an environmental magazine or a membership to a museum or zoo- a gift they can enjoy all year. (See attached bibliography for some great book suggestions.)
- Instead of regular gift-wrap, use recycled or reusable packaging or a piece of cloth tied with ribbon.
Tikkun Olam Bonus: A different kind of Hanukkah gift
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Go through your closets and find old items you can donate to those less fortunate as an act of reducing, reusing, and recycling.
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Attached Files
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greengifts.pdf
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Click here for a printable version of this document.
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Comments
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This program added on 2002-12-31.
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Programs placed on the Jewish Environmental Educator's Program Bank are
solely the property of the program submitter. COEJL has no right or
interest in the posted programs and is making no representations or
warranties concerning same. All inquiries concerning programs should be
forwarded directly to the program submitter.
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