In our best effort to show love and care during the Christmas season, one can easily get caught up in a spiral of consumerism - which affects our pockets, community and planet 🌍 We're proposing a more conscious approach this year. Get ready to map your way to positive impact! 🚩

For the coming 12 days AppyMaps will be highlighting one business per day, to make your approach to Christmas filled with less environmental impact and SO much more meaning. 12 Days of Christmas, the Appy way! #christmaswithpurpose #christmasgiftguide #shopethicalinstead

First area of waste reduction this Christmas: your holiday cards 🎄. @Washedupcards is cleaning rivers and beaches across the country, and using the plastic collected to create colourful cards!

Exciting, sweet and educational stocking fillers? @playinchoc uses only paper-based, recycled, recyclable, biodegradable and home compostable materials for their chocolates, toys and packaging! #christmaswithpurpose #giftsforkids #christmasgiftideas #stockingfillers #toys

Happiness is a hot drink on a cold day. NEMI Teas brings you a variety of fair-trade, organic teas while employing and training refugees - empowering them to integrate the local job market and society. #shopsocial #empoweringrefugees #organicteas #fairtradetea #haveacuppa

This is the season to be freezin', but we can make someone feel warmer by adding cosy socks from the Eco- friendly Leiho to your stocking fillers this year and support homeless people #endhomeless #socent #forceforgood #christmas2021 #xmas2021 #giftideas #gift #socks #eco

Trees and Xmas, Cutting one or buying a plastic one? Let's choose an alternative! The Treedom app is helping all of us to plant and donate new trees all around the world! Download the app and start growing your forest. #LetsGreenThePlanet #planetearth #tree #reforestation

The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving, that is why donating your kids old and unwanted toys to other children in need through The TOY Project is the perfect gift idea for this season. #toys #unwanted #preloved #giftideas #gift #playtherapy #xmas2021 #Kids #Children

An ideal Christmas gift can be adopting an endangered animal for yourself or a loved one from WWF UK. In doing this you help save and protect precious habitats and all the species that rely on them. #animallover #sustainablechristmas #charity #petadoption #xmas2021

If you're still struggling to find a meaningful and sustainable gift, fresh fruits and vegetables are always a great idea! Check out @oddboxldn to your cooking creativity! #oddisgood #meaningfulgifts #rescuefruits #zerowastechristmas #xmas2021 #vegbox #zerowaste

The AppyMaps Team is wishing you a very, Merry Christmas! May peace, love, joy and laughter overwhelm you and yours this season. This is the season to remember to reduce waste as we enjoy and feast. Enjoy the day with your loved ones and be agents of Change! #christmas #xmas

Happy New Year!! Cheers to 365 days of living, enjoying and exploring a sustainable lifestyle. What is one of your key impact resolutions? Comment below! #impact #socialimpact #socent #cities #sustainability #happy2022 #nye2022

We love to hear about the creative ways you're reducing your environmental impact 😍 Share with us how you're planning to celebrate #ValentinesDay2022 P.S. We love when you DM us your social impact photos and videos ❤️ #sustainablevalentines #sustainableliving #SocEnt #vday

We love what we do because of people like you! Today, we are wishing you happiness and for your heart to be full of love and joy. ❤️Appy Valentines Day ❤️ #socent, #socialenterprise #valentinesday #socialimpact #socialgood #sustainability #makeadifference #changemakers

Olivia Spaethe ❤️hi Olivia Spaethe here at APPYMAPS since 2019 we create social impact maps in cities in UK and abroad for this particular reason. Even if knowing sometimes is not enough, it can be the spark for good. Check again what we created with the community appymaps.carrd.co 😀

Reopen The Canvas! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/KGFyRPwt via Change.org UK

We love this! This is always about people, places, actions and creations of new common goods ❤️⭕️

We're excited to introduce you to the first #NeighbourhoodDoughnut Portrait, painted by many people together in Ladywood, Birmingham UK: positioning neighbourhoods as the foundations for the hopeful, creative, just transition that we know is in our hearts: doughnuteconomics.org/stories/213

Looking for a #socialimpact #ethical #forgood #green #socialenterprise place/city near you? Probably you can find it here Our APPYMAPS Social Impact City Maps appymaps.carrd.co

When you build a lot, sometimes you have to look back, pause, summarize what you do, and celebrate the community's efforts. Our Social Impact Maps projects of the last 4 years socialimpactmaps.carrd.co Eat, Drink, Shop, Meet, Do, Make, Grow, have fun, Impact. #socent #maps