For a Responsible Christmas

Decorate your home without abusing the Planet

• The best option is to make our own tree by recycling cardboard, colored papers, photographs and fabrics. Another alternative is to use plants that we already have at home and adapt them to Christmas.
• If we choose a fir or a natural pine we will choose only those trees raised in nurseries where replanting is guaranteed once Christmas is over.
• Do not buy sprigs of holly since most have been collected in the natural environment, and constitute the main food for many species in winter.
• Use energy saving LED bulbs to decorate your Christmas tree and remember that candles are a fantastic ecological resource to decorate
• To make the Bethlehem, avoid buying moss or bark from trees extracted from nature. Use recycled materials (cardboard, fabrics or painted containers ...) to make the portal, the floor, and the background decoration. You can create the figures with clay, mud or paper pulp.

Bet on a sustainable menu

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• Join the bluefin tuna boycott

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• Cork Campaign Yes

• It consumes fish and shellfish from sustainably managed fishery reserves . If possible, look for products certified with the MSC seal that guarantee responsible fishing
• Do not include threatened species such as bluefin tuna on the menus. Check here our online consumption guide.
• It uses food from agriculture and organic farming that have not used pesticides or fertilizers in its preparation.
• For the toast, it is committed to wines and champagnes from vineyards without chemical treatments covered with cork, instead of with metal or plastic stoppers.

Giving away is not synonymous with consumption

• Teach children to limit themselves in the letter to the Magi explaining that gifts have to be distributed among all the children in the world. Thus you will instill the value of solidarity.
• Try to make gifts educational and encourage creativity.
• It includes a gift in the letter that is not purchased : objects inherited from the grandparents, an album of photos with their friends ... so they will learn that there are alternatives to consumption.
• For your friends and family, opt for fair trade items, which guarantee that your production and marketing has been carried out without exploitation of people or nature.
• Avoid buying items in the stores of Everything at 100 ″, since most of these gangas are the result of the exploitation of people in countries m Disadvantaged.
• Give a subscription to WWF Espaà ± a a conservationist or solidarity organization.

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