What do you think? Is Christmas sustainable? How would it all work in a changed world?

Christmas is not a sustainable time of the year. With all the waste of electricity, extra food cooked, waste from wrapping presents and all the wrong gifts that have been consumed that will provably be thrown away.  


Christmas is a special time of year and everyone seems to put in the extra effort to make it extra special as it only comes round once a year. I believe that we would be able to have a time of year when you don't have to think of waste and the environment if we had started to look after it earlier, but as we are slow on the uptake on how to look after the environment then I think we should still have to take into account ways to be sustainable over the christmas period. 


We could take in consideration not traveling so far in a car to see others at christmas and look into more environmentally friendly ways of doing this. Maybe travel the day before and stay a few days as traveling by public transport would be more kinder to the environment. Recycling wrapping paper would be good, also not having lights as decorations and using the same decorations each year. Another way would be to give more money instead of consuming more presents a person might not like and never use.


I think its a shame that Christmas cannot be left out of having to worry about the environment but the environment can not stop changing just because its Christmas. 


http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblog/2007/dec/12/toptipsforagreenchristmas