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5 Perfect Green Holiday Gifts!

Green, Green, Green! It’s more than the color of the season!

By Deborah Burstyn
SF BAWJ Staff Writer

If you’re looking for some great Green gift ideas…read on. We’ve scoured the San Francisco Bay Area and following are our 5 favorites!

1. For the Gourmet or Grocery Shopping-Challenged

Show them you care with a box of fresh, locally grown, organic produce delivered to their door. Every week for a year, if they’ve really been good!

Planet Organics will customize your box to include only fruits, veggies, salad greens or a mix of all of the above. And there’s always the “surprise” box option, plus cheeses, crackers, chips, dips and other organic grocery items and gift baskets. Contact award-winning Planet Organics about home delivery or gift certificates.

2. For Techies and Teens

With U.S. headquarters right in Berkeley, Solio will help the techies and teens on your list power up that mobile phone or MP3 on the go using only sunshine! But if the fog’s in, Solio, the universal hybrid solar charger, also plugs into a wall socket.

Light weight and portable, Solio can juice their digital camera or Bluetooth whether on the beach or on the slopes. Also compatible with GPS systems and handheld games.

3. For Tree-Huggers and “I Don’t Need Anything” Folks

We think that we shall never see a gift as lovely as a tree. And an even lovelier tree is one that is donated to a neighborhood that needs a tree.

San Francisco’s own Friends of the Urban Forest or FUF will plant a tree in honor of your gift recipient for $50, the basic cost of one of their trees. FUF calls them “Tree tributes, the gift that grows.” Your recipient gets a card on your behalf, you get a letter that the card was sent and the earth gets another tree. A win-win.

4. For the Young or Young At Heart

What kid needs another hunk of plastic – possibly lead-tainted at that? Or another plush toy animal to collect dust on the shelf? Instead give them a real life experience with real animals that actually helps the animals. A membership to the San Francisco Zoo supports the Zoo and entitles the recipient to:

Free admission to the Main Zoo and Children’s Zoo every day of the year
Free admission to Night Tour
Free Guest Passes to the Zoo
Free Ride Passes
Subscription to Zoo Views magazine
10% discount at all Zoo shops and cafes
Invitations to Monthly Members’ Mornings
Free or discounted admission to over 125 zoos and aquariums nationwide
Free monthly e-newsletter filled with animal information, Zoo news and events

Contact the San Francisco Zoo to learn more.

5. For the Fabulously Feminine

Girls just want to have fun. And that often means playing with make-up. Here’s a brand that not only uses no phthalates or other toxins but also helps women!

PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics is the first cosmetic line to give all of its after tax, distributable profits to women’s health advocacy and human rights issues. $7.98 buys a bottle of Peacekeeper Natural Nail Polish and $30.00 buys the Visionary Care Package which includes Natural Lip Paint, Nail Polish and Lip Gloss. Contact PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics or buy locally at Whole Foods, the Other Avenue Coop, Rainbow General Store or Elephant Pharmacies.

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