What’s UR Bag: Read JS Review | Buy It ($15)
City-wide plastic bag bans are a perfect excuse to spend a small amount on nylon/lycra blend totes that give back.

Eco Emporia: Read JS Review | Buy It
We have Eco Emporia's products — made from discarded items including fire hose belts and rescued paper notebooks — to thank for introducing a reusable holiday tradition that extends beyond second-hand gift bags.

Blightster: Read JS Review | Buy It
Chilean artist Rodrigo Alonso has created a gift that keeps on giving with lamps made from reusable containers.

Tappening Bags: Read JS Review | Buy It ($50)
There's no reason that plastic water bottles and yogurt containers should live in landfills when they can have a second life as bags imploring your gift recipient to “Think Global, Drink Local.”

Herb-n Art Toys: Read JS Review | Buy It ($9 – $60)
We know it’s fun to run out to the drugstore and get a friend a Chia-Pet as an “ironic” gift. Well, irony is dead. Get them an artistic alternative that can also grown microgreens out of its head.

Tappening’s “Message In A Bottle” campaign against bottled water was a roaring success. The tap drinking crusaders collected one million water bottles to send to Coca Cola CEO Muhtar Kent to protest the pollution caused by bottled water consumption. But at the last minute Tappening had a change of heart. Rather than expend the environmental resources to send a truck to Atlanta and dump the bottles on Coke’s doorstep (giving the soda giant a positive publicity boost when they simply recycled them) they made Tappening Bags. The duffles are made from 100% recycled plastic water bottles and yogurt containers, and remind you the next time you reach for a Poland Spring or Dasani to “Think Global, Drink Local.”