Holiday Gift Guide 🎁 for People Who Give A Sh*t

(Hopefully, that's you!)

Let’s break the cycle of whack consumerism, shall we? And let’s have fun doing it! 10 ideas:

1. Concert tickets! Theater tickets! Sports tickets! 🎟️🎟️ Give the gift of experiences. Memories and quality time over stuff, every time. Speaking of...

2. Fun, IOUs, craftily presented. 💌 Get creative – I owe you... a walk in the woods, an errands day together, painting your dog’s portrait, weeding the garden, a set of haikus on the topic of your choice... And get crafty with it – bust out the art supplies and make a cute physical IOU. 🖍️ My cousin’s daughter once gave me an IOU for a command performance of “Purple People Eater” and I’m just that much happier walking around the world knowing that option is available to me at any moment. 💜

3. Perrin Ireland’s snail mail newsletter 📬 Freaking delightful illustrations and writings about the magnificence of nature and all the wacky and freaky things other species do will arrive at your giftee’s door! Bonus: Find

   Perrin Ireland
   on Substack, and on Instagram @experrinment for her #ThirstyScience videos. 🤤

   

4. My fave Patagonia mitten-gloves 🧤 I’d rock these even if I weren’t on Patagonia’s board. They’re great. Here’s proof, featuring

   Amber Tamblyn
   (matching with your friends is cool 😎):

5. Yola Mezcal 🍸 [To the tune of 🎶fiiiive golden riiiings🎵] A freakin’ tasty treat, made in Oaxaca by a bunch of badass women. I am apparently now too old to handle brown liquor, but I love a little mezcal on the rocks with lemon every once in a while. It’s so delicious that I included it in gift boxes I sent out with my book. Speaking of my book...

6. What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures 🌎 Obviously, you already have a copy my book. Now, give the gift of climate solutions! The gravitas of a hardcover, but also art & poetry & family-friendly gems like “Fuck hope. What’s your strategy?” Also, it’s a book meant to be book clubbed — I made ya a reflections-questions-actions reading guide. AND if you want a signed copy there are a bunch for sale at the Patagonia stores I visited along my book tour.

Shoutout to Jenisha Shrestha, my chief of staff who makes magic happen daily. Please take these off her hands. (Photo: Kisha Bari)

7. Donate to Environmental Voter Project. ✅ We urgently need to mobilize the environmental electorate. Millions and millions of environmentalist in the U.S. don’t vote — we gotta change that. The very good folks at EVP are doing that work in every single election, not just every four years.

8. Donate to Working Families Party. 🗳️ Again, if you want a different politics, invest in the people who are building it. So inspired by what WFP is doing to “state by state and community by community, build a political home for all of us who see bigotry, bailouts, and business as usual in our political system and ask, ‘Is that the best we can do?’”

9. How Do Meerkats Order Pizza? by

   Brooke Barker
   . This book is HILARIOUS. So fun to read aloud with kiddos (lots of onomatopoeia), and I learned a lot! As the subtitle summarizes, it’s full of “wild facts about animals and the scientists who study them.” Also, includes the best TL;DR of my work 🤣:

10. Sibley’s Backyard Birding Bingo. 🎯 Wholesome family fun. (Or possibly a drinking game with Yola mezcal...?) To know nature is to love it.

Happy holidays!✨