Year after year, after year, I see the same Christmas tradition. Whether you choose to cut it down yourself, or buy it already cut by someone else you’re still purchasing a living thing with the intentions of disposing of it after the Holiday season. In a culture so apparently obsessed with ‘green this, and green that’; How are we STILL allowing this far from eco-friendly ritual? I know, I know… we all grew up with it, it’s a “lovely tradition, passed down through generations”, or something, but wasn’t this tree tradition also around when we thought that things like chain smoking, aerosol and asbestos were okay too?
In the past four days, I have seen no less than twenty stripped and discarded trees next to the regular piles of garbage awaiting their landfill destinies. On ONE block in Brooklyn today I counted six.
Some great solutions: http://upcoming.current.com/green/christmas+tree. I think it would be nice to make up your own eco-friendly traditions, or if you still want to decorate a live tree, try one outdoors.
