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You may be grabbing these gifts just under the wire but we think they’re some of the best choices of the year. This is the fifth and final installment in a five-part series comprising our 2025 Green Gift Guide.

This is the fourth in a five-part series, making up our 2025 Green Gift Guide by Andrea Ridout.

Teach your children how to care for the planet by giving them gifts with an eco-friendly twist. This is the third in a five-part series, making up our 2025 Green Gift Guide by Andrea Ridout.

Camille Lee, owner of Wear Em Out Tees, is doing her part to ensure that reusable T-shirts don’t go to waste. Her Dallas-based online company specializes in upcycling “pre-loved” tees and new shirts destined for landfills.

Andrea Ridout has gathered some carefully crafted products thoughtfully made by Texans in Texas. This is the second in a five-part series comprising our 2025 Green Gift Guide.

Don’t know what to buy for a loved one who has everything? Consider gifting them classes, hikes or festive outings. This is the first in a five-part series by Andrea Ridout comprising our 2025 Green Gift Guide.

Professors from across disciplines at the University of Arlington at Texas are crisscrossing the state and country to the South Texas Gulf Coast and as far as California to study air samples, changing fault lines and more. 

GrowOn at AGFarm in Bryan, Texas, started by Sharon Wells in 2013, grows fresh produce using aquaponics while empowering individuals with disabilities through volunteer work. The farm, operating sustainably without synthetic chemicals, sells produce directly and trains volunteers in various skills to foster mental and physical growth.

Fort Worth City Council members accepted a $12,000 donation from the nonprofit Fort Worth Mountain Bikers Association to fund the installation of security lights along the mountain bike trail that circles North Z. Boaz Park. The group, which seeks to advocate for and sustain Fort Worth-area trails, developed the park’s 4-mile trail in April 2023.

A program of Greenspace Dallas, the Lone Star Trail Building School is a two-day course held bi-annually at a Texas nature preserve. Participants learn all aspects of trail building, including design concepts, corridor flagging and construction. The fall session will be held Nov. 8-9 in Buescher State Park in Smithville, Texas.