It may not sound like “tree-hugging,” but cutting down a real tree for Christmas is actually greener than going with the artificial kind, one scientist says.
“It is a little counterintuitive to people,” said Clint Springer, a biologist at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.
Because of concerns over deforestation around the world, many people naturally [...]

There are more ominous signs for a dreary holiday season in 2008. Sources within the Christmas light industry say that shipments of new-technology Christmas LED lights are down in the months of June and July, bucking the trend of a surging upswing over the past 18 months in the category.
Some speculate that previous hot [...]

Donning Santa hats instead of sunhats, Gaylord Opryland Resort’s decorators towered overhead in cherry pickers today, stringing Christmas lights in the July heat as they begin getting the resort all dressed up for Christmas. The “most Christmassy hotel in the nation,” as named by the Travel Channel last year, has started gearing up for its [...]

Spare a thought, this warm summer day, for Oregon Christmas-tree growers, who are getting a frigid reception south of the border.
Like Santa’s elves, the farmers are already sweating the Yuletide season, placing them at loggerheads with Mexico’s embryonic Christmas-tree industry. Oregon growers of the coniferous symbols of peace and hope are locked in a [...]

The Coalition of Environmentally Conscious Growers, a 501-C (6) was founded by two Oregon farms in August 2007. Its mission is to certify that the live Christmas trees grown by its members have been and continue to be responsibly grown. Currently, there are four members of the organization, including the largest and fifth largest tree [...]

The plug may be pulled on the candy canes, Santa characters and toy soldiers that have lit up downtown streets for the past two decades.
There’s a plan in the works to replace the traditional Christmas decorations with “more general winter-oriented designs” as early as this fall.
“In the last few years we’ve got more and more [...]

Poor Port St. Lucie, Florida. For years they have been teased in the media because their Christmas tree kept dying. Season after season the city spent thousands in an effort to replace a beloved city symbol in a tree that had served well for decades but succumbed to a disease. They planted new trees each [...]

You don’t have to work yourself into a frenzy to decorate your home for the holidays. Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best and can help to reduce the stress level of major holidays. First of all, you don’t have to go run out and buy your
decorations the same year the holiday comes up [...]