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A team of 'Green Santas' will be touring the country this weekend, handing out eco-friendly gifts like Christmas tree seeds and energy-saving kettles. The stunt has been organised by Together, the consumer campaign to lower household carbon emissions.
The Santas will be visiting Bluewater shopping centre in London today, Birmingham's Bullring Shopping Centre on Saturday 15 December and Arndale Shopping Centre in Manchester on Sunday 16 December -- skipping several billion people that the real Santa will of course still be visiting.
The team is set to give away 50 energy-saving ECO Kettles, 50 copies of The Low Carbon Diet by Polly Ghazi and Rachel Lewis plus thousands of mince pies and packs of Christmas Tree seeds.
The Green Santas swap Rudolf for pedal-power
Together offers tips and energy-saving products on its site, and uptake of these is monitored and used to calculate a total carbon emissions reduction. Recently this figure passed the 100,000 tonne mark.
"The campaign shows it’s easy to deal with climate change if we do it together and lots of individual actions can add up to make a big difference. Against a tide of greenwash, Together gives UK consumers the confidence they need to make affordable green choices backed by genuine substance," says David Hall, campaign director at Together.
We understand the green outfits -- cheesy as they may be (although Santa was green before Coca Cola created the modern, red version) -- but what we don't get is the recumbent bikes. It's not as though a sleigh pulled by reindeer pollutes much, does it?
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