Make Boxing Day Green: Bring Back The Original Idea

It is Boxing Day, a statutory holiday in much of the English-speaking world. In Victorian times, servants got the day after Christmas off to spend time with their families, often with boxes of leftovers and annual bonuses. Since it is supposed to be an extra day off work, when it falls on a weekend it automatically shifts to the Monday.

But it has become the Canadian/ British/ Australian version of Black Friday.… Read the full story on TreeHugger