Do the Green Thing: Buy Nothing
by Bonnie Alter, London on 12.21.09 (re-post from treehugger.com ) For those of you in the last throes of Christmas shopping, here's the answer to what you could get the remaining few on your list, and it is available on Amazon, oops, Amazero.com. As the description says, buy Nothing: it's "Compact, lightweight and easy to carry, incredibly durable, fits into your briefcase and co-ordinates with everything in your wardrobe." It was created by Green Thing, a not-for-profit public service and a clever website that inspires people to lead a greener life. It's goal is inspiring green action.They use good design, quirkiness and ingenuity to encourage people to get involved in green initiatives in 7 different areas. Glove Love is another one of their projects. It's a glove story: as they say "no one needs a single glove, everybody needs some glove love." They rescue single gloves, clean them, make a new pair, sew in a classy label and sell them for £5. The...