Putting the green in the green and red

As the holidays approach, this is a great list of gift ideas from the blog Green Parenting.

Green Parenting: Green, Socially Responsible Gift Giving

A quick list of some of my favorites:

• Membership to a local museum
• Adopt and track a sea turtle throughout the year at Seaturtle.org
• Help a rural community develop health or social services (or a number of other options) via Seva Foundation
• Send seedlings or windowbox gardening kits – seeds of change or windowbox.com
  

And potential ideas for kids to give to others:

• Compose. Songs, poems, stories, plays, portraits, dances…
• Work. Clean out somebody’s garage, cupboards, paint their porch, weed their garden…

They also have good ideas posted for toys and the like.