Posted in frog gifts, Ideas for a Green Holiday, Living a Frog-Friendly Life, Uncategorized | Please enjoy a lovely, stress-free, and GREEN holiday! How about buying a few wristbands as stocking stuffers for your frog-loving friends or family, or buying one of our lovely posters, 2012 calendar, or the Ribbit t-shirt below? Your purchase will help us as we develop our offshoot organization, Frogs Are Green Kids. We’ve received entries from children all over the world, and we’re proud that we have been able to spread our message to so many new people. This year, for example, our kids’ art contest really took off. We would also appreciate any help you can give us here at Frogs Are Green. Why not help support this cause or another cause that isn’t a household name, where your money will make a big impact? Some other causes we’ve featured on Frogs Are Green: Global Amphibian Blitz, Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project, The Endangered Western Leopard Toad (South Africa), and The Frog Caller. Give your support to other less well known organizations: We were moved by last week’s guest post about The Beautiful Frog Association’s efforts in the Czech Republic to save the European Green Toad. The rainforest is alive with a wealth of magnificent plant and wildlife, including jaguar, puma, sloths, tapirs, poison-dart frogs and four species of monkey.”Ī happy pig at the Farm Sanctuary, Watkins Glen, NY. Here’s one we liked: an acre in Costa Rica, where “howler monkeys greet the break of dawn with a thunderous roar while scarlet macaws wing over treetops as the sun begins its slow trek across the sky. You might want to Adopt an Acre for someone (from The Nature Conservancy). While they don’t have a store, you can donate money to honor someone and they will send a personalized e-card. They are doing wonderful work around the world to save amphibians. So many of our posts this past year came from Conservation Organization’s Lost Frog Campaign. An alternative to bringing an animal home is to sponsor a special-needs animal from the North Shore (NY) Animal League or another shelter. Of course, you might end up with a new member of the family, just in time for the holidays. Animal shelters need volunteers to walk dogs, socialize cats, raise funds, etc. Less expensive gifts include a “Flock of Hope” ($60). The sale of surplus milk earns money for school fees, medicine, clothing, and home improvement. Classes are paid with the income from the sale of milk, and there’s even enough to share with the neighbors. It’s a fun and meaningful project for kids to raise enough money to buy, for example, a gift of a heifer ($500). When a family receives a cow, every morning there’s a glass of rich milk for the children to drink before heading off to school. This makes a great group gift from a school, Scout troup, church, or synagogue. It’s full of information about gardening for wildlife (including our amphibian friends), as well as information about everything you need to know to create a Certified Wildlife Habitat.Ĭonsider supporting Heifer International. Here’s a book we liked for the gardeners in your family. The NWF has some great gifts: cards, plush animals, plant-a-tree jewelry, books, and so on. Proceeds from the sale of the shirts will go toward sea turtle conservation: Who needs a Lacoste polo when you can get one of these nifty sea turtle polo shirts. This makes a really nice gift-Susan and I have given them to friends and family.Ĭontinuing the herpetological theme, The Sea Turtle Restoration Project has some really nice sea turtle items. ![]() While you are it, why not adopt a sea turtle, too? When you adopt a sea turtle from the Sea Turtle Conservancy, you get a lovely personalized certificate, a plastic turtle, get to name the turtle, track where the turtle is online, and it all comes in a beautifully designed folder. How about adopting a frog for a frog-loving friend or family member? Go to the Save the Frogs site to check out all the activities going on there. Please let us know in the comments if there are others you would recommend: Especially during a recession, these organizations really need our help. Rather than joining the throngs at the mall or the big box stores, why not feel good about the season by contributing time or money to a worthy organization, buying merchandise from these animal/conservation/green organizations, or giving a donation in someone’s name. Black Friday is almost upon us, and at Frogs Are Green, we’d like you to consider skipping this obnoxious super-shopping day and to participate instead in Green Monday, sponsored by the Nature Conservancy.
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