SF offers residents chance for Green Christmas

AP via Mercury News ^ | 11/30/2008

[Malone LaVeigh]

The trees offered—southern magnolia, small leaf tristania, strawberry and New Zealand Christmas trees—may not look traditional, but they all thrive in the area's climate.

So does this one:

Of course, they probably wouldn't get too many of these turned in after Christmas (at least with the leaves still on), but they would sure sell a bunch.

[ladyvet]

Will Bambi celebrate Christmas in the white house or will it be Kwanzaa next year?

[andy58-in-nh]

I'm dreaming of a multicultural Winter Solstice
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the renewable resource non-deforested trees glisten
And state-supervised children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the rain, due to man-made global warming (and not snow).

I'm dreaming of a non-denominational Holiday
With every seasonal email I compose
May your days be merry but not tarnished by consumption of excess carbon fuels or alcoholic beverages.
And may all your seasonal celebrations be appropriate.