Green Gift Guide: For Him
Caving to peer pressure (all the other green bloggers are doing it) and my love of online shopping, this week I'll feature ideas for green holiday shopping, for different recipients each day. The gifts will be green through and through, but not in a crunchy-granola-treehuggy way, and they won't break your budget. Today: Gifts for him.
Monday: Gifts for friends and coworkers
Friday: Gifts for philanthropists
- A morning shave goes organic with soothing Burt's Bees gels and lotions in this travel grooming kit. (Burtsbees.com, $20)
- Someone who goes camping or boating might appreciate a solar radio, when they aren't just enjoying the sounds of nature. (Gaiam.com, $50)
- Any music lover would be happy to dock his iPod in the Vers Audio Station, which features AM/FM radio and alarm, is energy efficient, harvested from sustainable wood, and free of PVC. (Organic Bug, $200)
- Vintage ties find a new life as slim, preppy wallets. (Prix Prix via Etsy.com, $24)
- Foldable bikes make carbon-neutral transportation convenient for anyone - and Citizen Bikes is having a huge sale. This six-speed bike is marked down more than 50 percent this week. (Citizen Bikes, $274)
- A picture frame made out of a recycled LP is sure to be a hit with a music lover. (Uncommon Goods, $22)
- This soccer ball is both vegan and fair-trade. Check out the lettering on the match-quality ball, which has some advice for any competitors. (Fair Trade Sports, $45)
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Don't give plastic gift cards!
If you want to be really green this Christmas get gift cards from sites like www.giftzip.com or at least recycle the plastic ones at Earthworks. Those things put 75 million pounds of toxic, carcinogenic, polyvinyl chlorine into the waste stream every year and their manufacture is equally nasty and occurs in unregulated third world countries. It is just a digital code people! Ditch the plastic!
The Not So Green Gift Guide...
THE NOT SO GREEN CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE FOR MEN
1. Any kind of a gun and a case of lead ammunition.
2. 1970’s, two stroke, dirt bike - Known as an “ol’smokey”.
3. Old, mounted animal head, found at a garage sale - Hang it in your garage and use it for a pellet gun target.
4. An old, empty, 55 gallon, toxic waste or oil drum. Always handy to burn your trash in, less trash for the landfills - and, has the added benefit of slowing down that next Ice Age. As an added benefit, it can double as your Bar-B-Q - Just be sure you remove any old tires or plastic you were fixin’ to burn before you start cookin’ - If you don’t, anything you cook comes out tastin’ like a skunk’s stinker.
5. Books on trapping, hunting, fishing, preparing road kill, building a shelter out of small trees, preparing hides, Endangered Species recipes (my favorite, California Condor Crisp), and how to make your own DDT. Might come in real handy during the coming Second Great Depression.
6. Power tools; chain saws, brush cutters, wood chippers, chemical sprayers and a neat new tool - The Rodent Ridder - injects diesel and propane into ground squirrel and gopher tunnels - an acre in one BOOM!
7. Fur coat or cap with the animal’s head still attached - Keeps you warm and makes a nice conversation piece. I’m thinkin’ of makin’ one where the head on the coonskin cap sings the theme to “Davy Crockett” - Kinda’ like the ol’, singing “Billy Bass” - except you’re wearing this one.
8. A subscription to “Guns & Ammo”, “Off Roader” or “Field & Stream”.
9. An N.R.A. membership with your choice of a Charlton Heston or John Wayne calendar or Michael Moron - Easy to Hit -Dart Board.
10. Bumper stickers - my favorites; “Sierra Club Go Hike to Hell”, “Save Babies - Not Condors” , “Environmentalism - The New Paganism” and “Going Green has Gone Too Far”.
What’s under your fresh cut Christmas tree?
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