Hey you sustainable shoppers! We have curated 12 great sustainable gift items for the environment-friendly person in your life. You can feel good about giving eco-friendly gifts that are sustainably sourced and produced. Plus, you’re sober now and you actually care about things, not just yourself. A great way to be of service is to be kind to the earth. With gifts made from low-impact materials, Mother Earth says go ahead and #addtocart!
Gift Idea #1: Shop 4Ocean
4Ocean is a purpose-driven business on a mission to end the ocean plastic crisis. Their organization is funded primarily by the sales of their products. Each product sold helps remove one pound of trash from the ocean, rivers, or coastlines. Founded on the belief that business can be a force for good, 4Ocean believes the actions of individual people, collectively, have the power to change the world.
What we love:
- Clean Ocean Collection – featuring 12 bracelets. These make great gifts and you can even keep one for yourself.
- 4Ocean Clean Up Combo – give the gift of paying it forward. Up to 90% of trash entering the ocean comes from a land-based source. Bringing your Cleanup Combo to the beach, lake, or park to collect trash can prevent it from being washed into waterways that will carry it to the ocean.
Gift Idea #2: Sipping Safely
The Sipping Safely: Reusable Drinking Face Mask + Secure Valve was founded and designed by Megan Harrington.
Function meets fashion! The Sipping Safely Reusable Drinking Face Mask is a sustainable product. Stay hydrated on the go, at work, or while social distancing with friends. Designed with an airtight valve and completely closed to outside air when sealed, this patent-pending valve design perfectly fits the diameter of any standard commercial straw (6mm). This minimizes air exposure.
Living in Seattle, sustainability and waste reduction is close to Harrington’s heart. Her mission is to offer the world a completely sustainable product from product to packaging. Each mask comes with one reusable curved stainless steel straw for convenient sipping. Plus, it arrives at your door in compostable, biodegradable e-commerce remailers.
We had the chance to do a short zoom interview with Harrington and we absolutely love her passion. The COVID-19 worldwide pandemic forced her to embrace the small things in life that she did have control over. She taught herself to sew and the rest is sipping safely history.
Sober Curator Pro Tip: If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you’ll go wild for how she names her mask fabrics.
Gift Idea #3: Grove Collaborative
Give the gift of CLEAN! Yeah yeah, we know. Cleaning products don’t make sexy gifts. We would argue that’s true for anyone still living in 2019. The COVID-19 worldwide pandemic has changed the way we see and move in the world.
Grove Collaborative believes the products that clean our countertops, clothes, and selves shouldn’t spoil the earth or our health. They’re creating a reality where household essentials of every kind are actually good for you and the world. When the world hoarded toilet paper in March 2020, wouldn’t it have been nice if you had already been set up with Grove productions being delivered right to your front door?
Gift Idea #4: Veritable® Smart Indoor Garden
Homegrown just took on an entirely new meaning! Designed for people who love to cook, the Smart Indoor Garden allows you to effortlessly grow herbs, edible flowers, and even small vegetables in your home, all year round. We found the Veritable Smart Indoor Garden at the MOMA online gift shop. (Museum of Modern History, based in NYC)
Gift Idea #5: Reusable Sandwich Bags
Check out these Nordic By Nature 4 Pack – Reusable Sandwich Bags we found on Amazon. They are dishwasher safe, BPA Free, durable, washable, quick-dry, cloth baggies. They make great snack bags even if you aren’t leaving the house! Tropical print, not your jam? Don’t worry, they come in over 10+ different fabric patterns.
Gift Idea #6: Zero Waste Cookbook
Shrink your waste! (see what they did there?) Featured on one of our favorite gifting sites, Uncommon Goods, Cooking without waste is fun, and you can learn how with this Zero Waste cookbook. There are over 100 simple recipes showing how to use the scraps you used to throw away.
Gift Idea #7: Living Composter
Another eco-friendly gift that we found on Uncommon Goods is this Living Composter. This is gardeners gold! The happiest, healthiest plants ever—that’ll be the end result of feeding food scraps to the worms in this sculptural compost container. Most worm farms look if we’re being polite, functional. And most compost containers, in tactful terms, do not smell like roses.
This one, cool-looking and odorless, raises the bar on both counts. The designers of this biomorphic worm house collected data for almost two years, then created an algorithm to figure out the best shape for both worm health and human convenience.
Gift Idea #8: Timberland Boots
Made with 50% recycled plastic bottles, sneakers aren’t the only footwear going sustainable. Not only are these Timberland REBOTL™ FABRIC BOOTS waterproof, but they are also anti-fatigue. All that sober, social distancing hiking doesn’t have to hurt! Stay comfy and dry as you become one with nature.
Gift Idea #9: Bearaby Tree Napper Weighted Blanket
Giving up alcohol and going forward with a zero-proof lifestyle has likely lifted the heavyweight of consequences from your drinking. Selfcare is more important than ever. Feeling a sense of calm and security is something to strive for every day. Feel recharged with this plant-based, cooling weighted blanket from Bearaby that is made from silky-soft, natural eucalyptus fibers. Fond of afternoon naps or that oh-so-important Netflix and Chill downtime? This blanket is worth the investment.
Gift Item #10: Earthlove Subscription Box from Cratejoy
Their motto? Live better. Love the earth. Cultivate a more sustainable, healthy lifestyle with Earthlove, a seasonal lifestyle box for natural, Earth-centered living. Each box is packed with full-sized eco-friendly goodies and a mini magazine with practical eco-tips and earth wisdom. Every box supports environmental non-profits dedicated to conserving and protecting natural ecosystems.
Gift Idea #11: Repurposed Sling Backpack
Give Back Goods is featuring these repurposed feed bag sling backpacks. They have lots of pockets and rest comfortably across the back. You’ll love the adjustable, padded, shoulder strap. Perfect for a day hike, a concert, festival, or everyday use.
Gift Idea #12: Shelbizleee Zero Waste Kit
Inspired by zero waste YouTuber @shelbizleee? So are we! This Shelbizleee Zero Waste Kit from EarthHero contains everything you need to get going. This includes a recycled cotton tote bag for shopping trips, a reusable silicone snack bag, vegan food storage wraps for meals, vegan shampoo and conditioner set, reef-friendly zinc sun butter, and soap nuts natural laundry detergent.
The ethical brands that make these products meet strict third-party environmental and social responsibility guidelines, give back to charities, and package their products plastic-free! Get started on your journey with help from @shelbizleee and EarthHero!
“You cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good that you can do.” – Shelbi
That’s an environmentally friendly wrap on our very first Holiday Gift Guide. We hope over the last 12 days of curated lists, you’ve found a few things for the sober peeps in your life and maybe a few things for yourself too.
If you missed some of our other curated holiday lists, you can find them here:
- Advent Calendars: 12 Advent Calendars curated for those unique and quirky people in your life
- Recovery Gifts: 12 recovery gifts curated for the special people in your life that have recovered from alcohol or drugs
- Give Art Therapy: 12 artsy gift items for that sober person in your life that loves to keep their hands busy creating fun projects
- Alcohol Free Gifts: 12 alcohol-free recipe books and zero proof beverages curated for the sober people in your life that still want to have fun with their zero-proof beverages
- Selfie Care: 12 selfie care gift items for that sober person in your life needs to slow their roll and have some good selfie care down time
- Alcohol Free Gifts: 12 alcohol-free recipe books and zero proof beverages curated for the sober people in your life that still want to have fun with their zero-proof beverages
- Selfie Care: 12 selfie care gift items for that sober person in your life needs to slow their roll and have some good selfie care down time
- Alcohol-Free Barware: 12 barware gift items for that sober person in your life that loves to have fun making and mixing their mocktails
- Give Entertainment: 12 entertaining gift items for that sober person in your life that still likes to have fun
- Give Books: 12 great recovery books for that sober reader in your life (it’s ok if that’s YOU)
- Keep it Glassy: drinking can still be fun if you have the right glassware for your alcohol-free bevies
- Ice Ice Baby!: 12 rad ice molds so you can still have fun with your zero-proof lifestyle
- Misc Gifts to #addtocart: 12 miscellaneous unique gifts curated for that hard to shop for person on your list
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The Holidays are hard, resources are available. Use them if you need them.
Resources Are Available
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