Spend a fraction of the money you would on that big, expensive trip! Instead, why not make your home into a fancy resort for a few days. Unplug the phone (leave a message saying you're away), rent a giant screen TV, heck, rent a hot tub! There's lots of things you can do with the thousands you'll be saving. We get so little time off in the good old USA as it is, and then we rush to some exotic destination with barely time to unpack and repack.
There are lots of other reasons to keep it local this holiday season, including the community-building, simplicity-promoting ones. But the main reason is that the biggest damage we do to the environment, bigger than never recycling or even driving everywhere, is to fly on an airplane. Flying uses an amazing amount of fuel (kerosene, believe it or not), and creates an amazing amount of pollution.( Continued)
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