This column is actually very timely! I just gave a “green gift” to my friend for the holidays. Here’s what I did — some other good green options:

I got her two tea containers (reused from teavana), with exceptional tea/shade-grown coffee from berkeley bowl, a green grocery store, so she can buy tea in the future without packaging. Also, good containers are hard to come by, so I decorated and put candy in a glass bottle-jar from goodwill in a useful/unusual shape. I also gave her two reused tote bags and the gift bag itself is sturdy and reusable.

She loved it — so I say try something new this year, folks!