Mission
The Green Gifting Campaign is a public service campaign
to encourage and facilitate a new culture of sustainable gift giving among
individuals through promotion, education, and freely distributed Green Gifting
identity materials.
It is our hope that parents, children, teens, businesses, and organizations will embrace this new culture with enthusiasm and care knowing there is only one earth for us to share and that preserving life as we know it will require changing our behavior and, to some extent, our lifestyles.
So many of us are overwhelmed by the dimensions of the problem of global warming and, while it's true that governments and corporations will have to provide the major changes in resources and technology, we must do our part.
The most effective way to begin is to change our shopping behavior. We all shop. Everything we consume has a cost, not just to us, but to the planet's resources. Whether it's the energy used to make the product, the transportation used to deliver it, the packaging used to market it, the resources the merchant uses to display it, the waste it generates when we have consumed it, and how what we use impacts those around us.
Our main goal is to help you become aware of alternate choices in products and gifts that either use fewer resources, use natural or sustainable materials, use materials that do not offgas harmful emissions into the environment, can be reabsorbed safely into the environment after use, or can be used over and over again. So gifts, such as services, use very few resources. A massuse or business coach uses only those resources necessary to maintain their offices. The actual service they provide requires nothing but human energy — and we all know that is an abundant and renewable resource.
