This Year Give Them Gifts for a Lifetime

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This Year Give Them Gifts for a Lifetime

Stonyfield Farm Offers Eco-Conscious Stocking Stuffers

NEW HAMPSHIRE, LONDONDERRY, Dec. 17 -/E-Wire/-- This holiday season, you can give gifts to those on your list with lasting value â up to a lifetime. Stonyfield Farm, the organic yogurt maker based in New Hampshire, has teamed up with like minded environmental partners to offer gifts and stocking stuffers for the holiday season that can help to leave a lighter environmental footprint. Gift options range from organic cotton blankets, to the company's quirky Have -A-Cow program, to a toothbrush made from Stonyfield Farm cups. There are gifts for those who are serious about energy alternatives, such as a wind energy investment to help reduce climate change, and gift suggestions that are as simple as making your own book on tape. All gifts have one theme in common though â leaving a lighter environmental footprint and investing your purchasing dollars in gifts into products that can make a difference.

"The holidays are a time for gift giving, but also a time to celebrate hope for the future, said Gary Hirshberg, President & CEO of Stonyfield Farm. By purchasing earth-friendly gifts this holiday season, we hope consumers begin to look to Stonyfield.com as a resource for using purchasing dollars that vote for the planet too." Hirshberg is a long time advocate of reducing CO2 emissions that contribute to global warming. The company's own efforts in this area include investing annually in carbon offsets - projects that absorb greenhouse gases from the atmosphere or prevent their generation. Stonyfield Farm was the first U.S. manufacturer to offset 100% of the CO2 emissions from its facility energy use.

Gifts on the site range from addressing issues of global warming to overflowing landfills and recycling. The WindBuilders gift membership helps build a new clean energy wind farm. Making electricity with wind turbines produces no air pollution - including none of the carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases that cause global warming. The gift membership keeps about 12 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air over the life of these wind farms - this is the same as cutting an average U.S. household's carbon dioxide emissions to zero for an entire year.

On the topic of recycling, a Preserve toothbrush membership is available both for adults and children. An estimated 50 million pounds of solid waste from toothbrushes alone contribute annually to U.S. landfills. With the Recycline membership, $17.50 for the Preserve (adult brushes), or $15.50 for the Preserve Jr., you can replace your toothbrush with a postage-paid recycling mailer, sending in your old brushes for new. These toothbrushes, made out of recycled Stonyfield Farm yogurt cups, are then sent in and turned into recycled plastic lumber. From yogurt cup to toothbrush to window box or bench â that's truly reducing, reusing and recycling.

Stonyfield Farm is the nation's fastest-growing producer of all natural and certified organic yogurt and ice cream. The company uses its lids as mini educational billboards to advocate that healthy food can only come from a healthy planet. In addition, the yogurt maker donates 10% of profits to environmental causes that help to protect and support the earth through their Profits for the Planet program. For more information about Gifts for the World, visit www.stonyfield.com.

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