Deck Your Tree With Shades of Green

The other day we looked at how to choose the most eco-friendly Christmas tree. Today we’re going to start looking at how to deck it out in style (and in green).

Start with LED lights: Always use LED lights for your tree. Nowadays with so many options around, there’s no excuse not to use them. We’re going sans tree this year, but last year we had a tree, and LED lights. I thought that the LED lights were so much more cleaner looking and brighter than traditional lights. They were great. Some nice options for LED lights include:

Colorwave LED Lights (see below) or the LED Snowflake Lights, Icy White (see above)- both are eco friendly. One comes in pretty shapes, and the other is color changing. Fun!

If neither of these LED styles suit you, visit Holiday LED for the biggest collection under the sun of LED holiday lights.

Earth Friendly Ornaments:

1. You can make your own ornaments with your kids, say out of recycled materials, popcorn, homemade clay, and more. This is not only earth friendly, but extra special and a great way to spend a cold afternoon.
2. You can purchase reuse ornaments at a thrift store, antique shop, or garage sale.
3. You can buy new, but purchase ornaments made from natural or eco-friendly materials.

Some eco-options for purchased ornaments:

Amenity Holiday Ornaments – Moons and Amenity Holiday Ornaments – Stars – made with non-toxic, water based inks.

Glow Glass Ornaments – Hand-blown glass ornaments that are not only beautiful, and recyclable, but solar powered! By day they collect sunshine via photo-sensitive paint and by night the energy is released and the glowing starts. How neat are these?

This 2008 Snowflake Ornament is made from recycled broken window panes – plus it’s lovely.

Coming up, we’ll continue our eco-holiday table series, look at more earth-friendly holiday decor and gifts, plus more.