The return of in-person office parties. Finding a new gaming console in stock. Whether your pre-pandemic fruitcake is still safe to re-gift.
You’ve got a lot you might be worrying about this holiday season. The environmental impact of your holiday light display shouldn’t be one of them!
At Hazel, our focus is on making it easy for everyone to have an impact on climate change, without making you feel guilty about your personal impact on the climate. That’s why we set up specific “Baseline” options in Hazel: We wanted to identify an easy amount that everyone could contribute that would have an immediate impact on climate change.
But, we know that some in our community like to eliminate the climate impact of specific climate-negative actions too. We include these in Hazel as “Supplemental” impacts – they’re a way of addressing a specific action that you want to eliminate.
If you’re worried about the climate impact of your holiday lights, we launched our Holiday Light Display product to make it simple to erase its climate impact. To determine each product, we calculated the amount of electricity used to power various amounts of holiday lights (and inflatables) each night from Thanksgiving to Christmas. We then calculated the amount of carbon released, on average in the United States, to generate that amount of power over that period of time.
The result is the three options you see in Hazel – a modest display (“Grinchy”), a decent-sized one (“Festive”) and, for households like mine, a large option (“Visible From Outer Space”).
So if you’re concerned about the climate impact of the electricity used to power your holiday light display, stop worrying! Hazel makes it easy for you to enjoy the holidays guilt-free, knowing that you’re eliminating the impact of your holiday celebrations.