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...potted or balled Christmas tree (roots still attached) so you can replant it in the backyard or donate it to the parks department. LivingChristmasTrees.org has lots of advice for do-it-yourselfers; it also "rents" living trees to residents of Portland, Ore., for $75 each. Friends of the Urban Forest of San Francisco (Fuf.net) rents nontraditional trees, such as Southern Magnolia and Strawberry, for $150, and replants them on city streets. Prefer a regular cut tree? Choose a real one that's grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers-ask local merchants if they have an organic farm supplier-or order...
...Choose LEDs (light-emitting diodes) instead of incandescent bulbs to decorate your tree and home. They're more expensive, but last much longer and use 80% to 90% less power than conventional mini bulbs. LEDs, which cast a bright white light, also stay cool to the touch so they won't singe the tree-or your child's fingers. Brookstone.com's oversized multicolored LEDs-$10 per 12-ft. strand-look just like the lights Dad used...
...contents, try unshelled peanuts, dry pasta or polyester fill from old pillows. Seo also suggests using bandanas and other reusable cloths, and for bottles of wine, sleeves of old flannel shirts. Not fancy enough? Try Poinsettia hemp wrap from Paporganics.com or Importica.com's paper made from naturally shed mulberry tree bark. Smithandhawken.com sells recycled-paper wrap for $9 per 10-ft. roll. For more stylish ideas, go to Idealbite.com...
With global AIDS advocacy culminating last Friday on World AIDS Day, Harvard AIDS activists spent a busy week flocking from one speaker event to another, tying red strips on tree trunks, and decking Grays Hall with a giant red ribbon made out of Christmas lights...
...aged Garnett desperately tries to save the disappearing American Chestnut tree, crossing and re-crossing genes. Lusa, a newly widowed outsider, buries her grief in the insect world, stripping the complexities of human emotion down to the single filaments on the wing of a moth. And Deanna, a lean mountain woman, jealously guards a newly arrived coyote family in the forest...