Neo-Luddite Gift Guide

Some suggestions for your gadget-free holiday shopping list:

• Nothing: Buy Nothing Christmas was started by Canadian Mennonites in 2001, and now it's also promoted by Adbusters, who bring you the annual Buy Nothing Day.  The site has a very long list of great alternative gift ideas.

• Check out The Center for a New American Dream's Simplify the Holidays site, which has lots of useful information and a list of Inexpensive, Creative, and Eco-Friendly Gift Ideas.  See also Hundred Dollar Holiday by Bill McKibben.

• Help fight hunger by donating a llama or perhaps a water buffalo in your giftee's name through Heifer International.  (Or choose your favorite other charity.)

Okay, this list is a work in progress, and not exactly "neo-Luddite" (more anti-consumerist), but you get the idea.

And for the record, I'm not as pure and untainted by commercialism as it might appear from the above.  I do my small share of Christmas shopping.

Happy Holidays!

Comments

[Dave Patterson]

Thanks for the kind words about Heifer International. I joined Heifer as new media director last year and really appreciate it when someone blogs about us.

We have a new BlogRaising program that lets bloggers like you help us get the word out about Heifer and raise the money we need to do our work. To learn more, just go to www.heifer.org/onlinecommunityfundraising

I hope you are able to take part.

Again thanks for the good words.