It’s cool to be green, so give cool Christmas gifts this year.
Green is becoming cooler and cooler. With the steady realization that we’ve mucked up our world big time, green is the new cool.
And whilst green is cool, it doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy things you enjoyed in the past, like Christmas. Just make an effort to give green Christmas gifts from now on. And don’t stop there, make a commitment to stay green with everything you do.
So if cool Christmas gifts are green this year, what suggestions do I have? Here’s a bunch from one of my favorite green eco shops. Ecoutlet. A UK online shop. Full of all sorts of cool green gift ideas. Here’s a few.
I’m concentrating on cool kitchen gifts. There are lots of men like me, who love to cook and spend time in the kitchen. So here’s a few ideas for green kitchen gifts for a man like that who has a sense of environmental responsibility as well.
1. The Presso Coffee Maker.
It uses no electricity. Yes I said NO electricity. It’s all done manually, so he just has to exert a little effort and make the coffee himself. And there’s nothing wrong with expending a little effort, it’s good for us.
You can see from the photo that it has 2 arms to use to press down on, thereby forcing the water through the coffee. Manually operated, electricity free.
2. The Eco Kettle
Most people put way too much water in the kettle to boil when they guestimate how much to put in. And the kettle boils all of it. It is estimated that on average we boil twice what we need each time. Kettles take a lot of power, so that’s a lot of power wasted.
With the Eco Kettle you just fill it up then select how many cups of water you want to boil, and it boils your exact requirements. No need to use any more electricity than the minimum.
3. The Sustainable Timber Sushi Board.
I make Sushi, I’m not very good at it, most of my rolls are different diameters, but they’re good to eat. Here’s a beautiful timber Sushi board from sustainable timber. And it’s an extremely functional Sushi board as well.
Many timber products are from unsustainable timbers, often from rainforest clearing in developing countries. It is considered that rainforest clearing is a major contributor to greenhouse gases.
This Sushi board is made from the timber from rubber trees which have reached the end of their life and are to be replaced. So it’s timber that is coming down anyway, and is replaced by new trees. And it’s beautiful timber.