With all the end of year holidays upon us, and everyone in media rolling out their gift guides -- we're no exception; here's our 2009 Gift Guide -- it seems appropriate to lay out a few meta-rules for green gift-giving. Rules is probably a bit too harsh. Green guidelines perhaps...
Considering one theme this year, particularly considering that though the economy has improved somewhat from last year, thing's aren't quite going gangbusters -- a good thing for carbon emissions, by the way -- is the idea of slowing things down a bit and really considering the scale of your gift-giving.
Shouldn't quality take precedence over quantity? Yes, it should. Regardless of green materials, or locality, or fair trade, or what have you, buying fewer things is inherently more green. Surely there's a marginal exception there that goes against that notion, but it's essentially true.
