Comments on: 5 Awesome Virtual Green Gifts

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:10:54 +0000

Instead of using paper for greeting cards that consume valuable resources, why not send a message to loved ones expressing holiday wishes in your own words. I would like to suggest a new online-mobile technology that allows you to record a personal greeting and send it to loved ones including pictures, links and text to love ones, friends and people who you might forget about around the world. It could take place of a traditional Christmas greeting card. Voike is a social networking site that really gives uses their own private PHONE COMPANY housed in a Social Site like Facebook, only much better. The service is new and so is offered completely for free. Don’t panic – get on voike.com and make this the most memorable season of giving ever by sending a heartfelt greeting in your own words.

By: Jennifer Kaplan

Jennifer Kaplan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:57:57 +0000

Thanks, dealdawg. Giftzip.com is a great idea. I agree that gift cards are awful waste of plastic. Gifts that ARE digital codes are a great way to go.

By: dealdawg

dealdawg — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:27:07 +0000

If you want to be really green this Christmas get gift cards from sites like http://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!

By: raz godelnik

raz godelnik — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:11:13 +0000

Thanks Jenifer for these great ideas and for having us on your list.

I would like to add that Eco-Libris is also offering now the option of adding a beautiful holiday card made of recycled paper to our trees/stickers. So if you’re interested in an affordable and unique green gift – planting trees to balance out the books your loved ones read, check out our holidays page: http://www.ecolibris.net/Holidays.asp

Happy green holidays!
Raz Godelnik
Eco-Libris

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:52:22 +0000

I’m a big fan of giving donations in peoples’ names too – sometimes just the donation, sometimes with a little gift.

I did Oceana this year, to adopt sea creatures in their names.

Mom gets a sea turtle, Steph gets a dolphin, and Kit gets a hammerhead shark (because he’s gotta be different)

If you DO want a physical gift, they send a cookie cutter or stuffed animal with a cute little adoption certificate.

Mom just gets the donation, but my little sister will make a pile of dolphin cookies, so she got the cookie cutter.