{"id":9596,"date":"2010-12-06T18:38:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T00:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=9596"},"modified":"2010-12-06T18:38:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T00:38:07","slug":"green-gift-monday-ecogifts-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/green-gift-monday-ecogifts-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Gift Monday: a Rehash of our #ecogifts Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well, last week’s #ecogifts chat on Twitter was a definite success… lots of great ideas from many different tweeters, with a really strong focus on gifts that you can’t buy. Among those who joined us was the folks at The Nature Conservancy<\/a> (@nature_org<\/a>), who put in a plug for their own Green Gift Monday<\/a> initiative. I’d seen references to it, but hadn’t really checked it out — their goal was to “rebrand” Cyber Monday as Green Gifts Monday. Apparently, it went so well that they decided to extend it to every Monday before Christmas… thus this post (and others) as well as continued tweeting with the #GGM2010<\/a> hashtag.<\/p>\n

Their effort and ours aligned nicely… they suggest “Make something, give an experience, donate to a cause or purchase an eco-friendly product” for holiday gifts… and that’s where our chat went (with a strong focus on the first two elements). Since I know not everyone’s on Twitter, I’d thought I’d pull together some great ideas that came out in the chat. Not necessarily a “top ten list” or something similar… just a handful of suggestions that caught my eye, and seemed to get a good response from the other folks participating.<\/p>\n

Green Gift Ideas from our #ecogifts Twitter chat<\/h2>\n