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Spend your non-Monopoly tender here - we're kicking off Green Gifts Week with $100-plus gifts for the more deserving of your friends and fam. Short of a get-outta-jail-free card, this stuff's tops. (Don't worry, we've got cheaper gifts coming up later this week.)The Benefits
-Personally Speaking
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- Jorg & Olif Citybike - Dutch-inspired bikes outshine the competition in the cuteness arena. Also offers sweet biking accessories such as baskets, hats, and messenger bags. Biking gets you exercising, saves money, and averts the 20 pounds of CO2 caused by burning every gallon of gas ($645-$1,495).
- Amazon Kindle - electronic book reader that conserves trees and energy needed to make paper books. Wirelessly download more than 190,000 titles, plus gain access to blogs and newspapers. It's easy on the eyes too - you can change text size and contrast. Also: Buy books for less than $10 (even new bestsellers) for people who already have Kindles ($359).
Freitag Bag - design a stylish, one-of-a-kind bag from reclaimed heavy-duty, vintage truck tarps online - and keep landfills smaller while you're at it ($220).
- Organic Bouquet Gift Club - up to 12 months of organic flowers, straight to your giftee's door. Since conventional producers tend to douse flowers pretty heavily with pesticides, organic's a safer bet for the gift-getter and the workers who pick the flowers ($140-$500).
Energy Detective - give the gift of lower utility bills via an ultracool gadget that monitors your entire home's energy, so you know how much you're conserving...or wasting ($140).
Dec 01,2008
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Because I’m Worth It
This is rough. I'd tell you what green gifts I'm getting for friends and family, but if they happen to read this blog (yeah, you, Mom), it'd ruin the surprise. So here's the (all under $100) Top 5 on my own wish list -
- Black & Decker Home Project Kit - would've made constructing that (made-from-nonthreatened-wood) IKEA dresser way less painful ($99).
- Economist Subscription - because no, I can't just read tips all day long ($69).
- Calvin Klein Organic Trunks - since somebody keeps pilfering my old pairs ($24).
- Presto PopLite Hot Air Corn Popper - annoyingly, the microwave at home always leaves me with partially popped bags of popcorn - and those bags aren't exactly recyclable ($18).
- Bodum Mug-size Tea Infuser - so I can stop using bagged tea at home ($14).
-Toshio...off to outfit myself for tomorrow's Gorgeous and Green party...
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