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SAMPLE CONTENT FROM DECEMBER BELOW!
WINTER WELLNESS
Enter to Win this Gift Box!
Share with a friend below to win this "Winter Wellness" gift box including organic tea, honey, soy candle, handmade eye-pillow, and meditation + greeting cards with hand-drawn art by Julia!
SUSTAINABLE STYLE
Green Gifter Guide to December
December is often a month associated with gift giving. How can we get in the true spirit, and give without taking? Download the Green Gifter guide here.
RESOURCES
Celebrate this Moment
Celebrate your relationship with the Earth and other living beings this month. Explore ways you love to celebrate, and green methods for hosting and gift giving as part of these celebrations.
LESSON 2
"Your Sustainable Style"
Identify the skills, talents & ambitions you're already bringing to the table, as the second step in our "Sustainable Superpower" course journey to finding your favorite green habits.
WORKBOOK
"Your Sustainable Style"
Use this workbook as you get in touch with what you savor about our natural world and human planet. This download accompanies the "Sustainable Superpower" course.
ORIGINAL ART
"Celebrate" Art Downloads
Free phone, computer + printable wall art downloads of this month's art by Julia Barry.
Discover & practice delightful ways to be green, building a healthier planet together.
Inspiration Station
Get the good news of what other helpers are doing to green our planet -- and share yours!
New Energy
As the UK stops using coal and nations band together to end fossil fuel subsidies, you can do your part to help transition the world to healthier energy systems. Check out these alternative energy gifts, as you're celebrating this holiday season.
PFAS, Be Gone
"Forever chemicals" aka PFAS are, according to the EPA, "manufactured chemicals that have been used in industry and consumer products since the 1940s" and "can lead to a variety of health effects." To prevent more PFAS from entering our air, land, and water, 16 US states have banned these chemicals, and others have adopted measures to at least reduce them. As we're celebrating this move in the right direction, you also may be prepping for some celebrations of your own this month, with gifting as part of them. Check out PFAS-free gift ideas here!
Resilient Coral
According to Curious Earth, "Coral reefs are vital ecosystems that support diverse marine life, protect coastlines from erosion, and bolster local economies." And over the last five years, scientists have bred coral that are more genetically diverse and able to withstand marine heatwaves much better. As you're celebrating this big win alongside your own celebrations, consider helping coral as a truly magical holiday gift. Learn how here!
DECEMBER
CHALLENGES
Each month, you can take part in challenges related to our theme and course. These challenges are designed to help you go deeper with the material, and stick with it to reap personal and environmental rewards.
Your Sustainable Style
This challenge series corresponds with the second lesson in the "Harnessing Your Sustainable Superpower" course you have access to as part of this community. Taking your time to think about your answers and add new ideas daily will generate lots of ideas, setting you up to continue with our course!
ACCEPT CHALLENGE
Celebrate Life on Earth
Celebrating moments, beings, places, or even concepts you're excited about can help you feel truly alive and fulfilled. Stopping to honor and acknowledge them creates a memorable milestone, a time that restores joy and connects us to our humanity.
ACCEPT CHALLENGE
Green Gifting
December is often a month of gifting, but let's think about what giving, receiving, generosity, and celebrating abundance really means to you. By thinking about these ideas while giving and receiving gifts, you can design your green gifting habits.
ACCEPT CHALLENGE
EARTH HERO HIGHLIGHT
We celebrate members, activists, scientists or other environmental experts and all the awesome green things they're doing! Let us know if you'd like to be featured.
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and Brooklyn native. She is co-founder of the non-profit think tank Urban Ocean Lab, co-editor of the bestselling climate anthology All We Can Save, and author of What If We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures. She is in love with climate solutions.
Check out Ayana's work!
GET INSPIREDWhat would you like to share?
What passions or skills do you want to share with the community? What questions do you need help with? Let's have a chat that other members can benefit from!
Share your ideas and requests here.
Each month, we choose more Earth advocates to support, too.
For December, we are celebrating these Earth-healing projects: Urban Ocean Lab, Threshold Podcast & Defend the Sacred Alaska! Vote now on which we donate to this month.
Reflection & Wellness
Everything to help you celebrate sustainable living in December.
Green My Media
Read, watch & listen sustainably.
Help Wildlife
from Natural History Museum, London
Even if we can't see it quite as much, important things are happening in nature over the winter. Here are some ways you can help wildlife do its jobs, even in the coldest seasons!
Consider the Service-berry
An ethic of reciprocity lies at the heart of the gift economy
The cool breath of evening slips off the wooded hills, displacing the heat of the day, and with it come the birds, as eager for the cool as I am...
Green Your
Holidays
from UpRoot Design Studio
Between the gifts, parties, and travel, holiday time typically creates pollution and waste like no other season. But now for the good news: with some small tweaks, you can help make holiday season better for you and the Earth! Here are some easy things to try.
Plan Eco Travel
by Molly Glick at One5C
Reducing your environmental imprint while traveling can be hard to figure out. Check out how you can travel to December celebrations more sustainably with this article which ranks which techniques actually work, and how much impact they have.
Who would you like to invite?
Make suggestions of Earth heroes who you’d love to experience interviews, chats, or workshops with in our community. Please include if or how you know the person or people you're suggesting. Thanks!
Celebratory Gifts
Green goodies for holiday recipients or celebrating your own eco living.
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