6 Gifts for Good That Create a Brighter World

Packed with Purpose Greyston Bakery’s (pictured above) mission is to create thriving communities through the practice and promotion of open hiring. The company doesn’t hire people to bake brownies; they bake brownies to hire people who face barriers to employment. “When people have the opportunity to participate fully in our economy, we all benefit,” says […]

5 Year-End Gifts That Are Good for the Planet

Glass Straws: Now It’s Cool to Suck This set of four colorful glass straws with angled heads elevates your drinking experience while helping put an end to single-use plastic. It includes a companion tool that is custom designed for cleaning straws, and the sleek case has air holes, which means your straws will dry even […]

Gifts That Inspire The Future

Choose a gift that supports the work of a nonprofit or a social enterprise. These gifts may look like many others you’ve seen, but each has a story that is changing lives for the better and taking the environment into consideration. OFFCUT SHOES Turning Negative Space into Positive Energy.In an effort to reduce its ecological imprint, Nike […]

Try Not To Give Anyone a Landfill Gift This Year

Pathological consumption has become so normalized that we scarcely notice it. There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a “hilarious” inflatable zimmer frame; a confection of plastic and electronics called Terry […]