Green Xmas Idea 15: If going away, 1st turn all appliances off at the wall. Turn the fridge down a few degrees and turn the water heater off

Green Xmas Idea 16: Conduct an annual energy audit for your home and make a green New Year's resolution.

Green Xmas Idea 13: When buying gifts, consider resources, energy & water used(incl packaging), transportation & how to recycle/dispose of.

Green Xmas Idea 14: Recycle your popped corks into floor tiles etc - see RecyclingNearYou.com.au or call 1300 733 712.

Green Xmas Idea 10: Other gifts ideas: fair trade products, an experience (e.g. an art class), a garden gift (compost bin, worm farm, plant)

Green Xmas Tip 11: Remember to turn off your Xmas lights when you go to bed to save on your energy bill & reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Green Xmas Tip 12: Forget the plastic or chopped Xmas tree. Decorate an Australian native tree in a pot & plant it in the garden afterwards.

Green Xmas Idea 9: Support the local economy & reduce transport costs by buying your Xmas gifts in your local area (& not transported in).

Green Xmas Idea 7: Avoid plastic plates. Use any crockery you have. If you need more, hire it or ask your Xmas guests to bring their own.

Green Xmas Idea 8: Car pool, ride bikes or use public transport to get to your Christmas destination if you can.

Fancy living in an egg house right outside your workplace? May be a little cramped, but the principles are sound- http://tinyurl.com/2dkljt3

Green Xmas Idea 6: Agree with family & pals to buy less or agree on Kris Kringle or agree to donate a goat etc to people who really need it.

Green Xmas Idea 5: Instead of using plastic ribbon to wrap the pressies, use string, vines, dry flowers or strips of paper.

Green Christmas Idea 4. If buying fairy lights, go for LED. These strings may cost a little more, but much less energy and last much longer

Green Xmas Idea 3. Plant some veges that will be ready for Xmas Dinner or buy organic veges nearer the date from a local farmer's market

Green Xmas Idea 2: If making your own recycled cards, impregnate a variety of seeds in the mulch. Give instructions to soak & plant the card

Ideas for a Green Christmas - Greetings! Here are 25 ideas for a green Christmas. Hope you incorporate a few in your festivities. Cheers!

Green Xmas Idea 1: Reduce, reuse and recycle all that wrapping and packaging. This material is also perfect for making your own Xmas cards.

Aug 21 was Earth Overshoot Day. By then, we'd used 100% of what the Earth can renewably produce. The rest of 2010 is living on overdraft http://u.nu/6v5we

Economist: Failure to put a price on pollution will lead to uncertainty and higher electricity prices - http://u.nu/46e9d http://u.nu/78e9d

The Aussie outback is a huge carbon bank, absorbing billions of tonnes of carbon, & this could be improved with management http://u.nu/9ae9d

A new National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS) logo will allow businesses to advertise that their product/service/operation is carbon neutral.

Media release re new NCOS logo for businesses to show they are carbon neutral - http://u.nu/6wd9d

GSA welcomes the new scheme, which will be more highly regulated - see the press release: http://u.nu/87d9d & an article: http://u.nu/6ed9d

An Emissions Trading Scheme may not be reconsidered by P.M. Gillard until the end of 2012 - http://u.nu/5kd9d

Penny Wong has announced that the Green Loans program will be gradually replaced by a new Green Start Program following a critical review

Check out this beautiful photo gallery of Queensland floodwaters making their way to South Australia's Lake Eyre - http://u.nu/9whg8

World Health Day on 7 April. Help make cities healthier by joining the urban health campaign - http://www.who.int/world-health-day/en

Here's a new site that sources ethically-produced products from Thailand, Cambodia etc. They also support charities there- http://u.nu/2ms38