146: Joyful Holiday Tips to Help Minimize Waste

About this episode

This episode provides joyful tips for minimizing holiday waste and highlights local resources for meaningful gifting.

Shrinking your holiday footprint on the planet can seem daunting – but this episode offers tips to make it a joy. Peak Alliance for a Sustainable Future (PASF) is deviating from the norm this month. Instead of the usual live, third Wednesday Zoom event, the November Sustainability in Progress is this pre-recorded studio conversation. This conversation is about the holidays, discovering local resources to give meaningful and lifelong gifts to reduce waste. Host Mary Barber of PASF is joined by Ally Richardson of Pikes Peak Permaculture and Dave Gardner of GrowthBusters (both are regular co-producers of the Studio 809 Podcasts Peak Environment podcast). We’re considering making some changes in SIP, and we’re inviting collaboration. Help Peak Alliance for a Sustainable Future and the entire sustainability/resiliency community make plans for 2026. Please take this poll: https://forms.gle/aJCcs4Lv9ZAVk6E69 LINKS MENTIONED:  Pikes Peak Bulletin Winter Holiday Calendar with local-maker markets: https://pikespeakbulletin.org/events/2025-winter-holiday-calendar-events-and-markets-in-the-spirit-of-the-season/ Colorado Springs Mom winter markets calendar…

People in this episode

Guests: Ally Richardson, Dave Gardner

Topics covered

• holiday tips
• waste reduction
• sustainability
• local resources

Keywords

• sustainable gifts
• holiday footprint
• collaboration
• PASF

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Pikes Peak Bulletin Winter Holiday Calendar, Colorado Springs Mom winter markets calendar

Books & works: Simplify The Holidays, Sustainable Holiday - Peak Environment, Have Yourself A Low Impact Holiday, Plastic Bags Update & Moving Toward Zero Waste, Rebelling Against Black Friday Consumerism

Places: Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Pikes Peak, the Pikes Peak Region

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