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Terence Norton Canes M6 Services, Northbound I will be challenging everyone to make a better world for when I grow up. Oh, and I will be wearing reusable nappies.
NameJane Allan Location 150 Tanjong Katong Road,Singapore Well I am sure mine may not be very ethical at all.However,I can I feel justify quite a lot of what I plan to do as ethical.I am going to Paris [by plane NOT green but will pay ethical surplus] to meet my ancient kids [31,29,27] and my cousins.We are staying in a hotel thus keeping the Parisian black underclass employed and in funds so they too can enjoy the Festive season.I will leave a good tip too.We will eat out and pay money to cafes ,restaurants and shops thus helping service workers to keep their jobs.We will not exchange ANY gifts as we all have too much stuff.If people stop spending at Christmas the subsistence workers in shops,restaurants and hotels will be made redundant and that is hardly ethical. I will walk a lot and enjoy the cold weather and drink vin chaud to keep me warm and ethically [ ho ho ho ]keep those cafe workers in a job. I plan to send Christmas Cards to all my friends that I never see .That will take ages and I think it is quite an ethical thing to do [in the very broad sense of the term]as it means I care and do not want to use distance as an excuse for forgetting the people I care about.
Alec Badenoch Leiden, Netherlands It's becoming increasingly clear that the things that are unethical about Christmas on a general and global level are also directly related to the personal feelings of guilt and annoyance that make me dread it. So ethical Christmas will begin with thinking about each 'Christmas' action and what makes it special, makes it matter, and makes it worth any negative effects (considered globally) it might have. And not doing it if it is not special, doesn't matter and isn't worth it. So: no crap throwaway token prezzies. No last-minute panicked extravagances. Exchanges will be about celebrating and strengthening relationships in ways that matter. The frivolous things that are part of that effort must come from a source that also does some good (fair trade, charity shop, etc.) but ultimately, the goal is to replace those things with time, celebration and communication. Once it is all done, the plan is to tot up the amount we have spent on Christmas (money, certainly, and ideally also time) and donate that or more over the course of the coming year toward improving the world beyond our network of friends and family.
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Terence
Norton Canes M6 Services, Northbound

I will be challenging everyone to make a better world for when I grow up. Oh, and I will be wearing reusable nappies.

NameJane Allan
Location 150 Tanjong Katong Road,Singapore
Well I am sure mine may not be very ethical at all.However,I can I feel justify quite a lot of what I plan to do as ethical.I am going to Paris [by plane NOT green but will pay ethical surplus] to meet my ancient kids [31,29,27] and my cousins.We are staying in a hotel thus keeping the Parisian black underclass employed and in funds so they too can enjoy the Festive season.I will leave a good tip too.We will eat out and pay money to cafes ,restaurants and shops thus helping service workers to keep their jobs.We will not exchange ANY gifts as we all have too much stuff.If people stop spending at Christmas the subsistence workers in shops,restaurants and hotels will be made redundant and that is hardly ethical.
I will walk a lot and enjoy the cold weather and drink vin chaud to keep me warm and ethically [ ho ho ho ]keep those cafe workers in a job.
I plan to send Christmas Cards to all my friends that I never see .That will take ages and I think it is quite an ethical thing to do [in the very broad sense of the term]as it means I care and do not want to use distance as an excuse for forgetting the people I care about.

Alec Badenoch
Leiden, Netherlands

It's becoming increasingly clear that the things that are unethical about Christmas on a general and global level are also directly related to the personal feelings of guilt and annoyance that make me dread it. So ethical Christmas will begin with thinking about each 'Christmas' action and what makes it special, makes it matter, and makes it worth any negative effects (considered globally) it might have. And not doing it if it is not special, doesn't matter and isn't worth it. So: no crap throwaway token prezzies. No last-minute panicked extravagances. Exchanges will be about celebrating and strengthening relationships in ways that matter. The frivolous things that are part of that effort must come from a source that also does some good (fair trade, charity shop, etc.) but ultimately, the goal is to replace those things with time, celebration and communication. Once it is all done, the plan is to tot up the amount we have spent on Christmas (money, certainly, and ideally also time) and donate that or more over the course of the coming year toward improving the world beyond our network of friends and family.

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