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<\/a><\/p>\nMy favorite types of gifts to give are ones that “live on” or continue to be used throughout the year. I came up with some ideas to get you thinking about how you can encourage people you care about to live greener, have fun and enjoy life.<\/p>\n
Nature Lover. <\/strong>Fill a backpack with some of the items below. Attach a walking stick and some natural decorations like pinecones and holly, and it\u2019s ready to give.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cGrown Locally\u201d Around the World. <\/strong>Fill a basket, or other type of reusable container, with items that are \u201clocal\u201d for you. For me these items are:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gardening is fun! <\/strong>Fill a garden trug, basket or other type of container with items like:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For The Recycler in You.<\/strong> Fill a reusable bag or container you no longer need, or use, with items like:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Safety Begins at Home.<\/strong> Fill a basket, bag or other reusable container with items like:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Greener Home. <\/strong> Fill a bucket or dishpan with an assortment of items that contribute to improving the indoor air quality<\/a><\/span>. Some suggestions:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here\u2019s to A Healthy Home!<\/strong> Fill a basket or container that can be used to hold magazines, mail or other clutter<\/a><\/span> with items that promote a healthy home environment, like:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Water Wise. <\/strong> Bucket, or other container, filled with items that encourage water conservation, like:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Energy Saver. <\/strong>Tool bag filled with items that encourage conserving energy, like:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For gift tags and cards, use postcards you bought and never got around to sending. These are only a few of the ones I bought and never sent.<\/p>\n Happy holidays from the University of Georgia Extension<\/a>!<\/span> For information sheets to include in your gifts, call your local county Extension office in Georgia (1-800-ASK-UGA1) or go online and print them out @ www.gafamilies.org\/home<\/a><\/span>. If you live in another state, find the Cooperative Extension service in your state on the U.S. Department of Agriculture website – NIFA<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n I have always enjoyed gifts – both the giving and receiving of them. According to researchers, I am not alone. Gift giving is an important part of human interaction and psychologists say that the givers often reap the biggest psychological gains. When someone takes time to thoughtfully select a gift for me, it means so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":3711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,88,36,38,56,72],"tags":[327,356,408,424,428,460,491,600,661,741,757,781,920,929,961],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giving","category-green-living","category-healthy-housing","category-holidays","category-recycling","category-water-conservation","tag-energy-conservation","tag-extension","tag-gift-giving","tag-green-cleaning","tag-green-gifts","tag-healthy-homes","tag-home-safety","tag-locally-grown","tag-nature","tag-radon","tag-recycle","tag-reuse","tag-uga","tag-university-of-georgia","tag-water-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/greenway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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