Do you want paper or plastic?

First, let me just confess this up front. We going out and cutting a real Christmas tree this year. Always have, my guess is, always will. But are we doing right by the environment? And are we anachronisms? My daughter said she was only one of two kids in her group that hang out at middle school that were going "real" green this year with the trees.

As it is, we've had to go further and further afield for to search out Christmas tree farms; and I fear this will be the last time we use that one that is next to Auburn Mountainview High School. It's now surrounded by development.

Anyway, the debate goes on in blogs, PR land, as well as in news articles and press releases about what is the real environmental choice. It seems tho, that the troops prefer the real deal.