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She’s the Mrs Beeton of recycling. Liz Goodwin is Britain's recycler-in-chief, the woman tasked with changing habits and stopping us clogging up landfill sites.

The Christmas trees at the White House and State Capitol in California are both using LED Christmas lights this season to save huge amounts of energy.

This story shares 5 creative ways to wrap your christmas presents without using harmful, non-recyclable wrapping paper. You probably even have these supplies laying around your house already. Check it out!

It's no surprise that the holiday season can make anyone feel like they're committing naughty eco-sins - trash bags full of wrapping paper, boxes upon boxes to throw away and perfectly good electronic devices tossed in the trash as soon as they're replaced with the newest ones.  But, there are a few simple and fun ways for everyone to make sure they can give fabulous gifts that are greener and kinder during the holidays.

This year Americans are projected to send 2 billion Christmas cards. The vast majority of those will end up in landfills and the cost of postage alone will be $840 million.

The solution is to earn some serious cool points and create a FREE photo slideshow eCard, complete with falling snowflakes and swaying ornaments.

Here's a Christmas Quiz designed to help you avoid giving unwanted gifts that will only end up in the landfill by January. Have a different Christmas in 2007.

Celebrate the holidays and give gifts in a healthy and sustainable way with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as your gift guide! It's more fun than you can imagine to give really good stuff that people actually need rather than stuff that will end up in a landfill or closet.

Wanting to maintain a green lifestyle during the holidays? Here are some great tips to keep green over Christmas.

Tips for an ecological Christmas. Between Thanksgiving and New Year's day, Americans throw away a million extra tons of garbage each week. Stop it now!

You've probably heard about the real vs. fake debate, but those aren't the only games in town. Here's a guide to your options, according to green.

Christmas is right around the corner. How to "greenify" this wasteful, Earth-hurting time??

Every Christmas we see advert after advert pushing rubbish that will be lucky to see the next Christmas - and maybe that's what the reatailers are after. After Christmas we are left craving the real happiness that has long eluded us in our search for commercial Nirvana, and in its wake a planet that has fewer resources left for the following year.

Ah, Christmas. ‘Tis the perfect season to be merry, bright and…green. But it’s not always easy telling your rosy-cheeked in-laws or your office colleagues, their hands brimming with beautiful, glossy (yet unsustainable) paper-wrapped gifts, on why you opted to give them local wine wrapped in a burlap sack (”oh, but it’s chic and reusable”).

Several manufacturers are offering solar powered devices one can give as gifts this holiday season including kayaks, carrying bags and toothbrushes.

It's amazing how much paper is wasted each year with gift wrapping. Here are some easy ways to save money and go easier on the environment, all while wrapping a gift that will be sure to get noticed under the tree this year.