What is the ‘Greener’ Choice in Christmas Trees, Real vs. Artificial?

BY JOE LAMP’L | Growing a Greener World PBS TV series Host and Executive Producer

For the first twenty something years of my life, real Christmas trees were the only option I ever knew. And frankly, artificial trees were so depressingly plastic-looking back then, I’m glad it was never an issue in my house. I continued with real trees for the next 10 years of my adult life. Then something happened.