Happy Birthday to Me and the Earth

I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to blog about my special day. Keeping with the Energy Conservation theme however, I wanted to share with you some green ideas when hosting your own birthday party, whenever that may be.

• Why not send a snazzy email invitation. You can create your own look and feel and have folks RSVP to your party all online.
• Instead of gifts for yourself, ask people to give something to someone else. Maybe they come to your party with clothes they don’t wear anymore and can be donated to a shelter.
• I am big on “experience gifts” like a ticket to the museum or a show. This way it is an expendable item and the other person gets to enjoy themselves doing something they might normally plan for.
• Try your baking skills at a home made birthday cake.
• For those festive party decorations why not open the linen closet and find some old sheets you can tear up to use as streamers and place them where they can blow in the wind
• At the end of the day, don’t forget to say ‘thank-you’ by crafting home made cards.

Share your own green birthday ideas and let us know what you are doing to celebrate. You can also check out our Green Graduation Parties post for more information on how to have a green party.