Decoration 圣诞树装饰

贴士： 最简单传统的圣诞树装饰是用小果子和爆米花串起来的小挂件，非常环保，不会对环境有什么污染，像松球也是很天然的。

Go with the old school things like string cranberries and popcorn. It doesn't cost much money at all and it involves no plastics. Nothing's going to sit in the landfill. Both of these elements can actually go in your composed pile as soon as you are done stringing them on the tree. Use other national-found elements like pine cones to decorate your house. And you can use an old egg carton to store those valuable bulbs and different ornaments for your tree.

Lights 圣诞树灯泡

贴士：使用传统的白炽灯泡非常费电，建议大家使用新型的LED灯泡，虽然价格可能比白炽灯泡贵一点，但是却相当节电，而且也不会对环境产生污染。甚至是正在召开的哥本哈根气候会议，主办方也率先为会议场地都换上了LED灯泡。

Those standard old incandescent bulbs are way less efficient than the newer light bulbs, especially if you are using these great big Christmas bulbs and you're using those indoors and outdoors. There are new LED light bulbs that are actually 80-90% more efficient than the standard ones. Here's a box. This box I actually bought for about 10 dollars, so not much more expensive. But here's the deal. This string of lights is going to last a hundred thousand hours when used indoors--of course, the efficiency goes down just a little bit when they are used outdoors. Thirty days of using a string of five hundred regular bulbs are going to cost you about eighteen dollars in energy costs and it will cost only 19 cents if you are running the LED bulbs instead. So it's gonna save you a lot of money in the long run.

Wrapping 礼物的包装

贴士：每年节日期间光是包装袋和购物袋就会产生大量的废物垃圾，所以我们不妨用一些旧衣服、旧布料自己制作一些包装袋，既环保又有乐趣。

We generate about four billion tons of extra trush just from wrapping paper and shopping bags during the holiday season. So think outside the box this year. Use things like old T-shirts and sweeters and scarf to wrap the gifts.