greenlight — the magazine came out early in December.  If you haven’t seen it yet, click here to find 50 great green gifts (for last-minute shoppers), a round-up of alternative snow sports, holiday recipes, a 2006 car buyers’ guide, and much more.

This month, greenlight bite brings clarity for your holiday-hurried mind: Clear out catalogs, clear up the organic wine issue, and wash it all away with natural products for bath and body.

The dread begins in early November: Each time you open your mailbox, exactly how many catalogs might slide out? By December, the number is so overwhelming you chuck them in the recycle bin without even taking a look.

That’s unfortunate, since most of these glossy books aren’t made from recycled paper in the first place.

This year, fight back. For more…

You buy a free-range turkey and organic sweet potatoes for your holiday meal. Don’t you want the same ethics behind what you drink?  

Unfortunately, in the case of wine, it’s not as simple as just buying organic. Laws governing organics in the U.S. deem that nothing inorganic can be added to certified products, which means the sulfites most winemakers mix in for freshness render their wines uncertifiable, even if the grapes are grown organically. For more…

Bath and body products especially for men may be a mainstream trend, but companies who make their products more naturally haven’t branched out into men’s grooming (not successfully, anyway). Fortunately, what they sell is so simple and pure, it has cross-gender appeal. Here are some items for XX’s as well as XY’s: For more…

Q: Can rechargeable batteries be used in any device that takes alkaline batteries? How many times can they actually be recharged, and how do I dispose of them when they no longer work?   –Reader Mike P.

Click here for the answer!