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Santa’s big annual gig comes with a mega carbon footprint. Ethical Ocean imagines the potential environmental impact of delivering all those toys and offers some practical, earth-friendly solutions the big guy could take to reduce his impact. (Hint: Some of them apply to us Santa stand-ins, too.)

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