Thursday, November 20, 2008
Fresh Christmas Trees Go Digital This Season
This year the staff at Coyote Hills Christmas Tree Farm in Oregon, are helping the environment by implementing digital christmas tree shopping.
You can browse through their selection of pine-needle trees that are still growing in the fields, so you actually see the tree before buying it and not just off a truck. Their goal is to conserve our natural resources by avoiding pre-cut trees going to waste if not sold by the end of the season.
Each acre of Christmas trees provide the daily oxygen for 18 people. With 1 million acres of Christmas tree nationwide, this translates into oxygen for 18 million people each day.
Owner of Coyote Hills Tree Farm, points out that buying a real Christmas tree is the way to go for environmentally conscious Americans and buying your Christmas tree this way also guarantees the freshes tree possible!We must also note that after the holiday season, most metropolitan areas offer programs to take Christmas tree and turn them into mulch ofr playgrounds, gardens and other lanscape needs, espcecially because they are 100% biodegradable they do not contribute to landfill and waste management problems.
In my opinion it seems like a pretty cool idea, to shop for your christmas tree on-line, pick it out before it's cut down and get it shipped right to your door step, what a perfect example of how the digital world has changed the way we celebrate our holidays. This new way of shoping online does makes me wonder what will happen to the nursery's for instance? All the garden centers that sell real christmas tree during their off season, how bad would online christmas tree shopping effect their business? Will nursery's be able to stay in business or will they too have to start selling plants online. I just can't picture buying plants without actually seeing and touching them. Virtual shopping is just not the same.
Just as a side note; from an environmental perspective wouldn't it be better not to cut down the tree at all!
