Home: Celebrate the festive season the sustainable way  

We add up the real climate cost of a typical Irish household Christmas And Discover how we can become greener reveller 

Trevor Roper and his family enjoy a walk in their Christmas tree plantation at Inniscarra, corkchristmastreefarm.ie.

The central heating is roaring, the house is ablaze with fairy lights, and somewhere in the snowy reaches of Lapland, Santa is wiping his brow, as he tries to keep up with our demand for bigger and better, year on year. 

Come December, we are naughty rather than nice in our sustainable behaviours.