Green Your Hanukkah

Happy Hanukkah!  Here’s some tips to green your festivities of all 8 nights:

• Green Your Menorah: Classic menorahs use olive oil & cotton wicks, which are great substitute for common oil-based wax candles. Beeswax is another non-petroleum alternative for candles.  If you must go the candle route, go “local” & support “made the in USA” products.  (Also, you can avoid some nasty lead from some foreign-based candles). For the Menorah itself, try a reused steel pipe, or out of natural glass or metals.
• Spin that sustainable-wood dreidel: Purchase from 3RLiving, Kashmiri or make your own from paper or cardboard.
• Carpool or take public transit to Temple.
• Support local when purchasing cheese, potatoes, eggs and sustainable meats. Or go vegetarian with organic latkes! (yum!)
• Compost your Kitchen Scraps (speaking of cooking…)
• Buy green gifts for loved ones OR..
• Forego a gift 1 (or more) nights to do charity work or donate to your favorite cause
• Wrap presents in Newspapers with dried flowers (sans bows) or re-use gift bags

Hungry for some more ideas? Check out some more Eco-friendly Hanukkah suggestions.

Readers, what are you doing to Green your Hanukkah?

(For a special treat, I hope you’re singing to the tune of Dynamite for the new Candlelight sensation!)

Posted by Julie