Six No Carbon Christmas Gifts

Let’s put the holidays on a Climate Diet

Paul Greenberg
3 min readNov 26, 2021

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This Christmas you will add over 1400 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere. Holiday lights, heavy meat consumption, cranking up the heat to make guests toasty — all of these things burn fossil fuels and all increase your annual carbon footprint for the year by more than 5%. Sadly, many of these things are out of your control if you’re invited to stew…

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Paul Greenberg

New York Times bestselling author of Four Fish as well as The Climate Diet and Goodbye Phone, Hello World paulgreenberg.org