{"id":10553,"date":"2014-11-26T13:23:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T21:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/?p=10553"},"modified":"2014-11-26T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T21:27:25","slug":"simple-sustainable-holidays-bc-employees-share-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/2014\/11\/26\/simple-sustainable-holidays-bc-employees-share-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple, Sustainable Holidays: BC Employees Share Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are here! It\u2019s easy to get caught up in holiday \u201cbusy-ness.\u201d Traveling, cooking, shopping, hosting, cleaning\u2026 it all adds up! And not just at home.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/12\/16\/news\/economy\/holiday_trash\/\">EPA estimates<\/a> that \u201c1 million extra tons of trash each year,\u201d result from the winter holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainability polled members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/you\/captain\/\">Captains of Sustainability<\/a> to know how they simplify their holidays. They came up with several ideas on how to make holidays more sustainable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Give the gift of experience, a membership to the zoo, children&#8217;s museum, or a day with a grandparent\/parent coupon for a day of house cleaning, cooking a meal&#8230;.etc. the ideas are endless.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Wrap gifts into Old newspaper (1998 and older) that I find at antique stores through the year. \u00a0They are fun to read while waiting to open your present. \uf04a<\/li>\n<li>Traditional Czech Handmade and baked ornaments. My family has been doing this for a long time, some ornaments last till next year and other fall apart but never go bad. Here is a an example \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielam.com\/czech-dough-ornaments\/\">http:\/\/www.danielam.com\/czech-dough-ornaments\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gifts that make a difference; Usually do a loan in someone\u2019s name with websites such as; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/\">http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/<\/a>, and once the loan is over it allows the person to sponsor\/re-loan to some other causes of their choice<\/li>\n<li>Research and give gifts that are Environmentally friendly and non-toxic<\/li>\n<li>Tree in a pot \u2013we purchase a tree in a pot and at the end of the holidays we go and replant the tree in our back yard (aka forest)\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Shop local<\/li>\n<li>Make donations in the recipient\u2019s name<\/li>\n<li>Traveling: select one person to drive the food to relatives; the others, jog\/run\/walk over (within 3 miles)<\/li>\n<li>Gift Giving:\u00a0 generally give consumables \u2013 nut mixes, trail mixes, handmade g.c. for a chicken or veggie curry dinner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Thanks to Anne Carpenter, Jan Ng, Jarka Gurthova, and Rebecca Chawgo for sharing their ideas!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are here! It\u2019s easy to get caught up in holiday \u201cbusy-ness.\u201d Traveling, cooking, shopping, hosting, cleaning\u2026 it all adds up! And not just at home. The EPA estimates that \u201c1 million extra tons of trash each year,\u201d result from the winter holiday season. Sustainability polled members of the Captains of Sustainability to know <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/2014\/11\/26\/simple-sustainable-holidays-bc-employees-share-ideas\/\">...more about Simple, Sustainable Holidays: BC Employees Share Ideas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":4406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10555,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553\/revisions\/10555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}