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I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas: Gifts, Decorations, and Recipes that Use Less and Mean More
by
Anna Getty
This holiday season, Anna Getty environmental advocate, writer, television personality, chef, mother, and organic living expert helps families reduce their carbon footprint and save money without sacrificing style or tradition. Anna advises how to best choose a tree (real or fake?), mitigate the negative effects of necessary travel, recycle post-holiday, and more. She shar...more
Paperback, 180 pages
Published
September 30th 2009
by Chronicle Books
(first published 2009)
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I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas / 978-0-8118-6767-2
This collection contains a little bit of everything for Christmas - crafts, decorating ideas, and recipes - all overlaid with a lot of good green advice. Whether or not it's worth the price of admission, however, is going to be up to the reader - I enjoyed this book immensely, but it's admittedly not flawless.
The recipes scattered throughout this book are probably the least green facet of this book - as delicious as "Truffled Goat Cheese ...more
This collection contains a little bit of everything for Christmas - crafts, decorating ideas, and recipes - all overlaid with a lot of good green advice. Whether or not it's worth the price of admission, however, is going to be up to the reader - I enjoyed this book immensely, but it's admittedly not flawless.
The recipes scattered throughout this book are probably the least green facet of this book - as delicious as "Truffled Goat Cheese ...more
Another pick-up from the library that prompts the question: why are books about "green" lifestyles so very lame? Decorations made out of used tea bags painted with gold tempera paint? Really? Truffled goat cheese macaroni and cheese, how is that "green" exactly? Recycled cashmere pillows? Pomegranate antioxidant cocktail? Sigh. Every once in awhile there's a reasonable tip, like buy 2nd hand toys for your kid but hey, I already do that.I guess it's good for people who aren't ...more
Too many old ideas - carving a design into a halved raw potato and using it to stamp brown paper bags for wrapping paper - that was in my Brownie Handbook in the 1950's. So, I'm too old for most of the clever suggestions. The six page directory of websites was the most interesting feature of the book. They are eco-friendly/organic/locavore/recyle/green/alternative/biodegradable... did you know you can rent a live Christmas tree in Portland , OR and the service includes delivery and pick-up?
Christmas is my favorite time of year, so I like planning ahead. This book contains a little bit of everything on how to have a "green" Christmas by using less waste. There are some great ideas for decorations, entertaining, gifts, as well as some yummy recipes. I think I will definitely be giving the chai hot cocoa and apple, cranberry, and brie quesadillas a try!
Fairly simple craft ideas, unique recipes (the Chai Hot Cocoa sounds delicious), and lots of expert advice on how to create a more environmentally-friendly holiday. It may inspire you to get into a festive mood and try something new.
The only thing I found clever in this book was the title. The environmental information is the same as most green books I have read and I thought the craft/gift ideas to be boring. I doubt any child will want to find bottle cap magnets as their gift this Christmas. The most disappointing aspect is that on every decorating idea was something that required store bought ribbon/beads/glue. There are much better green books out there.
This book had me until the decorated used tea bags - yeah, that's taking green to the extreme....
The author offers many ideas for decorations, food, and kid-friendly activities for the holidays that celebrate the season, while being less wasteful and better for the environment. The artichoke dip, salt dough ornaments, and the hefty resource guide were my favorite parts of this book!
-Kelly M.H.
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