Christmas is a time of celebration, and often, to our shame, material and consumer excess. We give gifts to each other for the best of reasons, but too often those gifts are material things that our loved ones really don’t need.

So it’s time to bring back A Rocha’s cute video on gift giving from several years ago:

If that has convinced you to do Christmas a little differently, A Rocha’s Green Christmas gift catalog is here; and Climate Stewards has more ideas for you here. Or consider the venerable Heifer Project or World Vision catalogs where you can gift your loved one with chickens, ducks or cows!