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16 planet-friendly gift ideas, recommended by TED speakers

Ideas.Ted

The holidays are here — a time for family, friends and festivities. In the US alone, returned packages will generate around 15 million tons of carbon pollution (equivalent to 3.2 Most of us have enough stuff, so this holiday season, why not give a gift that will create a legacy? A mushroom garden. A giant of a plant.

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Little Green Footsteps

Eco-Office Gals

use; holiday forms, purchase order sign-off, invoice sign off, expenses, just to name a few. However, we cannot operate a business today without IT and suspect in most cases the incremental service cost and carbon footprint required to make these changes are significantly less the storing and shipping around unnecessary paper based files.