Green Gift Ideas for Your Coworkers

Searching for the perfect gifts for your colleagues?  Giving eco-friendly, sustainably minded presents will not only spread cheer around the office, but will also be a gift to the environment.

Chocolate, fruit, nuts, coffee, beer and wine always make for perfect presents.  Look for food and beverages that are organic and / or fair trade. 

Organic foodstuff is grown and produced without the use of synthetic herbicides or fertilizers, meaning we are putting less harmful chemicals in our bodies and in the Earth.  Fair trade products come from farmers and workers who are justly compensated.  By buying fair trade goods, you are helping to improve members of a community’s day-to-day lives.

EcoExpress is one online company that offers organic fruit baskets, chocolate, wine and beer.

Or, find organic and fair trade goods at locally owned stores.  Shopping at locally owned, small stores is a boost for the local economy and environment.  Click here to read more about the benefits of purchasing from stores owned and operated by someone in your community. 

Another idea is to buy your office mates reusable coffee mugs, water bottles and grocery bags. 

Then, there’s always those office essentials to think about for gifts.  Why not give a BeGreen Gel Rolling Ball pen — made from 89% post-consumer content — to that coworker who’s always asking to borrow a pen?  EcoGeen office offers a variety of other green writing tools, including pens, pencils, pen refills, erasers and more.   

With a new year around the corner, desk pad calendars and planners made from recycled materials supplied through EcoGreenOffice are also a great gift choice. 

Finally, think about truly greening your office by gifting a plant.  Not only are plants beautiful, reports treehugger.com, but they can also help to clean the air we breathe!

Have fun looking for the perfect green office gifts and don’t forget to check out the EcoGreenOffice product catalog.  If you have some other great ideas for eco-friendly presents, please share! 

2012 is almost upon us!  Help yourself and your colleagues start planning for the new year now with a desktop calendar made from 100% post-consumer content.  Available through EcoGreenOffice.