Green Christmas: Looking for really new ideas for a sustainable Christmas this year? How about, for example, the particularly environmentally friendly eco gift paper from dabelino, from which new trees can grow again, non-needling organic Christmas trees with character and lots of green gift ideas from small, fine start-ups and organic manufacturers from Germany.
Christmas cards from which new trees grow
The start-up behind this idea is called dabelino and is a ecological stationery and book publisherwhich has set itself the task of promoting its industry. sustainable to change. The eco gift wrapping paper and matching Christmas cards from dabelino are climate-neutral using green electricity, with organic printing inks without mineral oil and without environmental toxins on eco-paper printed.
Thanks to this sustainable production process, the cards and wrapping paper can not only be used to 100% recycledbut can also be composted completely safely. After Christmas and the unwrapping of presents, the wrapping paper can be returned to the biological cycle as a nutrient for new trees or used to fertilise the organic tomatoes on the balcony, for example.
On top of that, the two dabelino makers have decided to donate a little tree to the NGO Eden Reforestation Projects to plant. Furthermore 10% of the revenue as a donation to the children's aid organisation The Ark e.V.. The particularly environmentally friendly wrapping paper is available in the online shop, for example, where it can be purchased with DHL GoGreen climate-neutral shipping becomes.
Attention for ä environmentally friendly pots
An environmentally friendly Christmas tree for around 20 to 30 eurosthat is delivered to your door in a climate-neutral way and doesn't needle? Yes, that is possible! At least if the Christmas tree, for example odourless Geertje is called - because dear Geertje has already put all her needles on Bredeneek Estate in Holstein and is therefore offered as a Hidden Beauty Christmas tree for little money.
There are lots of strange Christmas trees for sale that don't quite conform to the norm. Normally, such fir trees don't even end up on sale and therefore don't end up as Christmas trees in our homes, but go straight to the shredder. According to Better Foodprint, this affects between 10 and 25 per cent of all fir trees, depending on the field.
[infotext icon]A total of almost 2,000 trees are available for Christmas 2019. Orders can be placed until 19 December 2019. And for every fir tree sold, a new tree will be donated as compensation. Plant for the Planet planted[/infotext].Green alternative to conventional candles
Candles are mostly made of Paraffin, i.e. from crude oil made. In addition, there are also problematic aluminium casings for tea lights. An alternative to this are, for example Beeswax candles or rapeseed oil and soya wax candles for veganswhich are also available in unpackaged shops without aluminium wrapping.
And with Lit Lab Berlin candle lovers can even create their own customised scented candles from soy wax in the shop atelier or online shop, which are placed in an artistic concrete candle holder with gold-coloured accents. The pretty candlesticks can be hung up after Reusable principle even fill it again and again.
Ecological start-ups with sustainable gift ideas
With the founders of the brand Grow-Grow Nut there are, for example, so-called Microgreens, i.e. seedlings of various vegetables, which can be grown in a coconut shell - actually a waste product from the coconut harvest, which is upcycled here - on the windowsill at home and thus provide fresh vitamins even in winter without long transport routes.
The startup Inaska from Frankfurt presents Sustainable swimwear and leggings The clothes are made from old nylon fishing nets and other plastic fished out of the sea. The clothing is not manufactured in the Far East, as is usually the case, but in Portugal. For every order in the Inaska online shop, 20 cents go to the Surfrider EU initiative.
Pregnant women and mums are sure to be delighted at Christmas with the Organic teas for women from Mom to Mom. For classic gifts there are vegane chocolate from Goldbergerwhich contains no industrial sugar, but instead contains medicinal mushrooms as a special extra, and Sisu Sockswho make a donation to Terre des Femmes for every pair of stockings sold. When buying the Yoga mats from HejHej Matswhich, according to the closed loop principle are made from recycled plastic, 1 euro per sale goes to the social initiative Earthchild Project.
Source: dabelino
