Strom: You can also save electricity in the Christmas bakery: If you don’t set the oven for top and bottom heating to top-bottom heat, but to circulating air, you save 20 percent in energy.
Christmas tree: The old questions – plastic or real? With roots or without? Let’s keep it short: plastic is not a solution. The green fades, the tree ends up in the garbage at some point. Even the tree with roots, the Bollenbaum, is not sustainable. You can’t dig it up every year. And many trees simply will not survive repotting. The temperature difference is also a shock for the trees when they come to the 20 degree warm apartments in December. Death for every tree. The only ones that survive permanently are those that are placed on the terrace and thus remain outside. A tree just doesn’t belong in the apartment. If you still buy a Christmas tree, you don’t need to feel guilty, because a tree is in principle always climate-neutral. It’s just a shame when a healthy tree is chopped down. And of course the Christmas trees are often monocultured and treated with pesticides. That may then be climate neutral, it is not organic.
packaging: It is of course widespread nonsense to wrap gifts in high-quality paper that is then destroyed a few hours later. Maybe just take waste paper. Old comics or maps, for example, are real eye-catchers. Or give a hint when unpacking that you want to reuse the paper in the coming year. Unpacking a little more carefully doesn’t hurt the Christmas fun.
Meat: Well, it’s no secret that whoever eats vegetarian is eating environmentally friendly. Maybe it doesn’t have to be a Christmas goose at all. The goose is better for the climate than the roast beef. When it comes to CO2, poultry is clearly the better option. But of course, an animal has to die for it. Why not try a vegetarian dish at Christmas? We have something for you:
Here is a funny cartoon with a serious background that went viral on the net: “Let the geese live”
Vegan Christmas menu: This festive meal does not contain any animal products
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