http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/12/26/rethinking-your-christmas%e2%80%99s-carbon-footprint/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/12/26/rethinking-your-christmas%e2%80%99s-carbon-footprint/comment-page-1/#comment-60691 sm hudson Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:31:21 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=2155#comment-60691 Thank you for the analysis of the comparative CO2 between natural and artificial trees. It is a question I have wanted answering for some time. When our children were very young, we lived in the mountains and would climb uphill and cut the top off of a taller tree, thereby achieving both our cozy Christmas house effect and maintaining the life of the "host" tree. Our eldest son was therefore horrified the first time we visited an sub-urban tree farm and he was faced with killing the whole tree. A remedy we used a number of times was to buy a live, potted tree (not much more expensive than today's Christmas tree lot prices). It would be delivered in a single truck full of trees from our local nursery. We were then able to donate, with the inclusion of planting services, to a couple of local school grounds. Not possible for everyone everywhere, but the children felt good about it and it helped in the growth of our sons' ecologically minded development. Thank you for the analysis of the comparative CO2 between natural and artificial trees. It is a question I have wanted answering for some time. When our children were very young, we lived in the mountains and would climb uphill and cut the top off of a taller tree, thereby achieving both our cozy Christmas house effect and maintaining the life of the “host” tree. Our eldest son was therefore horrified the first time we visited an sub-urban tree farm and he was faced with killing the whole tree. A remedy we used a number of times was to buy a live, potted tree (not much more expensive than today’s Christmas tree lot prices). It would be delivered in a single truck full of trees from our local nursery. We were then able to donate, with the inclusion of planting services, to a couple of local school grounds. Not possible for everyone everywhere, but the children felt good about it and it helped in the growth of our sons’ ecologically minded development.

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