Holiday Gift Guide 2007

Welcome to our annual Holiday Gift Guide. This year, in keeping with the trends, we searched out some “green” gifts. If you’re the sort of person who enjoys exchanging tangible tokens of affection but dies a little inside every time you catch yourself participating in the tradition of American mass-consumerism, you’re probably looking for ways to balance your holiday spirit with your guilty conscience. Happily, there are a lot of different ways to “green” up your gift selection—the first being to make a conscious effort not to gift useless crap that’ll just end up lurking in the back of someone’s closet or festering in a landfill by this time next year. If you wanna be really hardcore, give gift certificates for enjoyable, enriching experiences instead of more stuff (think spa treatments, nice dinners or guitar lessons). But you needn’t feel too bad for wanting to give people actual things; the following are our suggestions for practical, useful gifts that we think still make the world a better place (at least for your recipient).

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