As Summertime approaches so does the need for measures of protection from the sun including sunscreen products. Sadly, many of these contain ingredients harmful to the world’s coral reefs and aquatic life. In fact the entire state of Hawaii and some global marine preserves have banned two sunscreen ingredients: oxybenzone and octinoxate.

Season’s Greetings! This chapter of CHI’s Clean Blue Green program offers suggestions for a more ecologically sustainable holiday season. Most of us look forward to enjoying Christmas, Chanukah, New Year’s and other winter celebrations, but in our modern commercialized world, this can also be a time of unnecessary excess.