What are the green alternatives for sending Christmas Greetings without sending cards?
Donations, Phone Calls and Holiday Hugs! Send a financial contribution – whatever you can afford – to one or more environmental cause(s). Then phone everybody (save enough from your donation to cover long distance charges) and tell them that you did it. (Gently encourage them to do the same, instead of sending you a card or gift.) Even before that, we took a real close look at our card list and eliminated those with whom we were no longer in touch, and those we had kept, just because we were receiving cards from them. (I think this may have been a relief to some people, because they stopped sending cards.) What we had left were the people we really wanted to stay connected with. Most of those lived close enough to give Holiday Hugs in lieu of cards or gifts. Now we all do that instead of sending cards.
