This year, give a gift that will last—or repurpose one that didn't. Read on for our favorite sustainable gifts.

Soda from scratch. Sodastream. $50 and up

Class up your tap water with Sodastream's under-30-seconds at-home fizzing process, and join a community of at-home sodamakers who are collectively saving 16 bottles of trash a second.

Digital sketchbook. Clibe. Free

The Moleskine of a new generation, Clibe's free sketchbook app eliminates the need for paper (both from the forest and your wallet). Note and doodle with abandon, then export your favorite holiday recipes to your iPad family, share plans for your new living room arrangement with your S.O., or prove to doubting relatives that you really are "working on a novel."

On-the-go Brita. Hydros. $29.99

Advance your water filtering strategy beyond the fridge and the spigot with Hydros' all-in-one water bottle and filter, a perfect compromise between drinking sludge from the tap and financing the disposable water bottle industry.

Advanced placement cheese board. Uncommon Goods. $48

Embrace the weirdness of modern recycling head-on with this cheese board "reclaimed" from an Illinois elementary school's used chalkboards. Deal with it: The educational aids of American children are now being reborn as a hors d'oeurves delivery mechanisms for the bourgeois party circuit. It's better than trashing all that slate.

Soap for you and the Gulf. Bird Project. $24

Inject some warm fuzzies into your morning sud routine: Every time you shower with Bird Project soap, you slowly free a white bird carved from Louisiana clay from its black soap encasing, and help fund the big-time oil spill cleanup that continues on the Gulf Coast.

The evolved lunchbox. Plastica. $36

Lock down your snacking game with Plastica's stackable bento box, an advanced take on the school lunchbox. Pick a personalized color scheme to express the anxious individuality of the kid inside, then satisfy your evolved adult palate by stocking your box with a balanced three-part meal to go.

Eco alcohol delivery system. Walnut. $22

Your bike is designed to help you power yourself across the city—why shouldn't it be streamlined to accommodate your more sedentary activities, too? This six pack cinch hangs straight from your frame, helping facilitate the active pursuit of drunkenness.

Repurposed glass glasses. Beldi. $5 and up

Glasses from glass: So crazy it just might work. Toast to sustainable design with Beldi's hand-blown recycled glass glasses that don't look recycled.

Eco keyboard. Impecca. $59.99

This year, rethink the cramped cubicle as a finely-curated office space. Start by bringing zen to your desk with a 100-percent biodegradable keyboard hand carved from the largest member of the grass family.

Sky-powered iPhone. Mobius. $80

Ditch the omniprescent white USB cables. Power your iPhone via the Universe with Mobius' solar iPhone charger.

Scribbling throwback. Moxie. $3.25

Embrace your inner Luddite! Take a break from emoting into chat boxes, flirting via text, and yelling at your phone robot to communicate some ideas by putting pencil to paper.

Photos without the frame. Plywerk. $14-$300

Preserve your photog friends' greatest shots—and the environment—with Plywork's sustainably-harvested maple and bamboo photo mounting.

Mismatched-on-purpose socks. Solmate. $16.99

Save yourself another desperate traipse through the hamper by investing in a pair of deliberately mismatched socks. Symmetrical dressers can buy two pairs and switch them to make a perfect coupling.

Recycled cardboard cat teepee. Uncommon Goods. $28

Lock down your cat lady apartment's feline smell situation while appealing to your pet's eco-hipster aesthetic: For those times when a nonrecycled odor-absorbing cardboard cat teepee just won't do.

Wormy compost kit. Uncommon Goods. $109.95

Is your lifestyle producing a large volume of waste that you are unequipped to convert into liquid fertilizer with your clumsy human digestive system alone? Introduce a colony of worms to your kitchen to help transition your leftovers into compost (new squiggly friends not included).

Get going with a six-pack bike holster for boozing on the go, a filtered water bottle for sobering up spontaneously, and other, drinking-unrelated items for life on the move. Then check out GOOD's Holiday Wishlist for more ideas on gifts for  living, working, playing, and wearing.

Clear liquor we'd actually drink. Kings County Distillery. $19.99 plus shipping

Free up your bathtub with Kings County Distillery's moonshine-by-the-flask. New York City's oldest post-prohibition distillery that's clear as vodka but, shudder, the taste. Kings ships straight to your door; save on shipping by purchasing a years' supply all at once—a flat of 48 flasks.

Easy-on-the-eyes first aid kit. Best Made. $89

Prepare for sticks and stones with a First Aid kit designed for woodsmen, loggers, and you. The handsome wall-mountable kit comes equipped with medical ephemera fit for every emergency—including a wire split, mylar rescue blanket, and a CPR mouth guard. Strong enough for a woodsman; graphic-designed for an urbanite.

Real talk toothbrush. Yumaki. $10

A toothbrush for teeth-owners who don't care what three-out-of-four random dentists want them to put in their mouths. "Yumaki toothbrushes does not get your teeth any whiter or any cleaner than any other high quality toothbrush does. The result is the same," Yumaki states in its real-talk disclaimer. "To be honest, electric toothbrushes are proven to be the most efficient at brushing your teeth. But they normaly look ugly, take up space and consume precious energy." So invest in this well-designed—and perfectly adequate!—tooth cleaner, and keep an extra brush on-hand for dealing with any post-meal or morning-after weirdness that strikes outside the home.

Backpack with dignity. Buck Products. $75

The human back as an optimal surface for carrying items—another sound concept ruined by the middle school experience. Shake all of your anxiety-inducing, scoliosis-developing Jansport memories by investing in a non-embarrassing backpack from Montana-based Buck Products. This time, choose your own colors without worrying what your hometown locker tyrant insists isn't cool this year.

Pocket illuminator. ThinkGeek. $4.99

A credit card-sized lightbulb that won't break the bank: Perfect for lighting the nerdiest spooky camping story, or making extra sure you're connecting the red cable to the (+) battery handle.

Adventure chronicler. GoPro. $199.99 and up

Tap into your inner bro with a palm-sized HD video camera fit for recording your movements on a variety of gear favored by fraternity brothers and extreme sports enthusiasts the world over—GoPro's tiny tech is ready to be mounted on helmet, bike, or board, leaving your hands free to fist-bump with abandon.

Snap up innovations that make life worth living, from a projector that transports the night sky into your bedroom to a five-year diary that charts your life through the half-decade—and reminds you of the embarrassing thought you had three years ago today. Then check out GOOD's Holiday Wish List for more ideas on gifts for living, working, going, and wearing.

Manual star alignment. Infmetry. $22

Explore a night sky sans sky by plugging a couple of AA batteries and man hours into Infmetry's DIY constellation projector—then aligning the stars to your chosen place and time.

Long-con diary. The Ice Plant. $24.95

Chances are, your five-year plan isn't going to work out exactly as you planned. Start charting your 60-month mental progress with The Ice Plant's 5 year diary—then look back on what the hell you were thinking five, four, three, two, and one year ago today.

A magazine we made just for you. GOOD. $25 per year

Give the gift of GOOD, a quarterly journalistic investigation into a new generation of thinkers and doers. Hey, our relatives love it!

Best parts book darts. Canoe. $10

Stop paging through your favorite books in search of the most waterlogged parts—these precision-cut metal bookmarklets help you keep tabs on the words that always make you cry.

Modern analog turntable. Pro-Ject. $395

Because vintage tunes don't require vintage technology.

Graph stamps. EAI Education. $14.50

Chart your own life trends on the fly with pocket-sized rectangular and polar coordinate stamps. Press them on a spare bar napkin to get your best drunken schemes on the grid.

Icon-curated gifts. Quarterly. $25 per quarter

Know who you like, but not what you want? Put your future spending in the hands of Atlantic editor Alexis Madrigal, world traveler Josh Spier, or the natural beauty experts behind No More Dirty Looks, who will curate a special box of goodies and ship it to your door every quarter. 

Accessorize your appreciation of Twin Peaks coffee, your support of the Knope 2012 campaign, and your advice for haters. Then check out GOOD's Holiday Wishlist for more ideas on gifts for living, working, going, and playing.

Post-Obama political icon. Etsy. $8

Show your solidarity with 2012's only real feminist candidate, Pawnee deputy parks director, City Council hopeful, waffle enthusiast, and Madeleine Albright devotee Leslie Knope.

Drama-free tote. Souve. €19 (about $25)

Wear your drama-free lifestyle on your shoulder with Souve's large-font commitment to bitching reduction. It's sure to serve as a handy reminder to keep it together the next time you're pawing the depths of your effing gigantic tote bag in search of your effing car keys yet again.

One-for-one glasses. Warby Parker. $95

This online optical store brings the professorial look down to a grad school budget, offering up tortoise-shell circular specs and revolver-black Buddy Holly frames  for the blanket price of $95. Each purchase also sends a free pair of glasses to one of the billion people worldwide who lack access to affordable eyeglasses.

Statement shoes. Osborn. $75 and up

Shoes are the new windows to the soul (ugh)—but Osborn offers up so many unique takes on its hand-crafted designs, it's hard not to divine some sort of deeper significance from your choice of a custom-woven ikat cotton oxford over a one-of-a-kind floral ballerina flat.

A tee for deflecting the haters. Indie Goes Pop. $20

Convinced the "haters" are bringing you down? Snap up a t-shirt to put their haterade in historical context. Here, iconic hater deflector Elizabeth Eckford strolls into Little Rock Central High School in 1957 in defiance of a nation of haters, including the haters of the Arkansas National Guard, the haters of the Arkansas governor's office, and aggressively shrieking hater Hazel Massery.

Snooze button hair fix. LuLu Organics. $30

Too lazy to shower? Reframe your lethargy as an effort to save water, time, and—now—dignity with Lulu Organics' strand-freshening powder. (Pro tip: Lulu delicately refers to shower-shirking mornings as "days of unwash.") 

Who killed Laura Palmer throwback. Jen Oaks Illustrations. $3.50

Tired of lugging that lugging that clairvoyant log around? Show your solidarity for David Lynch's surreal 1990s soap with pins dedicated to Agent Cooper's enthusiasm for consumption, Audrey Horne's high school detective work, and the Log Lady's extrasensory lumber.

Organic undies. PACT. $22

Strip down with PACT's sustainable skivvies that don't look like burlap sacks. PACT's panty-making process employs fairly-paid organic cotton farmers, a low-impact dying process, an eco-friendly regional supply chain centered in Turkey's first certified organic factory, and a business model that gives back to charities around the world.

Keep your day job with a (free!) digital sketchbook that helps you share your works-in-progress and a USB stick for accessing your inner Fern Gully (and, you know, your documents). Then check out GOOD's Holiday Wish List for more ideas on gifts for living, playing, going, and wearing.

Sticky USB memory stick. Matteria. 49 Euro

Get Fern Gully all up in your USB port. This sticky memory stick helps you remember the natural resources that lie outside the boundaries of your soulless office "park"—and get your documents in order before you venture into the real world.

Life-simplifying calendar. Stendig. $33

A messy life requires a clean break: Each month, turn the page on the year's breakups, happy hour arguments, office flame-outs, and holiday anxieties with the only wall calendar fit for MOMA's gift shop.

Eco keyboard. Impecca. $59.99

This year, rethink the cramped cubicle as a finely-curated office space. Start by bringing zen to your desk with a 100-percent biodegradable keyboard hand carved from the largest member of the grass family.

Cable tangle tamer. Blue Lounge Design. $9.95

Harness your power cords with Blue Lounge Design's sticky cable organizers. Stick them beside your monitor, beneath your desk, and behind your console to help manage technology's tangled web.

Words of inspiration. Outline Editions. €40 (about $53)

Hang an inspirational poster that actually inspires—sorry, lone bald eagles soaring over sweeping natural landscapes!—with Anthony Burrill's monument to #realtalk.

Accessory headphones. Urbanears. $60

Now that they're regularly perched on the heads of most office denizens between the hours of 9-to-5, it's time to start thinking of headphones as the 21st century headband. Urbanears helps amplify your jams—and coordinate your office looks—across the color spectrum, from Windows-95-default-desktop teal to European-brown-mustard yellow.

Micro-health care packets. Help. $4 a pack

Got pain? There's a pack for that. Help's single-serving remedies are targeted at addressing cuts, aches, blisters, stuffy noses, and sleepless nights, for those days when even picking out a painkiller (or parsing another Apple-based pun) can cause a headache.

Office flame-out aid. Etsy. $39.99 

Stock up your home to help save the world (with a sodamaker that stops 2,000 plastic bottles from hitting the landfill)—and dinner (with a pairing box of choice recipes, ingredients, and LPs to help you switch up your regular macaroni-and-George Michael routine). Then check out GOOD's Holiday Wish List for more ideas on gifts for working, going, wearing, and playing.

Snacks and jams. Turntable Kitchen. $27.12 per month

Change up your dinnertime routine with a monthly curated box of LPs, recipes, and select dry ingredients shipped straight to your kitchen. The first Turntable Kitchen box, shipped in October, included a 7 inch from Dayton garage band Motel Beds, a sack of barley flour, and recipes for  rosemary-basted eggs, maple and black pepper bacon, and beer and barley pancakes.

Mind-blown clock. Studio VE. $48

Most clocks are designed to help you stay on time; Studio VE's Euclidean timepiece prompts you to move through it. Watch the hours expand and recoil on your living room wall with a clock that encourages "a new reading of time."

Art for everybody print. 20 x 200. $50

Lawrence Weiner brings his conceptual typographic work down to our level with a limited edition print for 20 x 200 that start at 50 bucks.

Utility shower curtain. Wintercheck Factory. $40

Consolidate your cleansing process with this Brooklyn-made all-in-one shower curtain, complete with self-draining internal pockets, loops for a toothbrush and razor, hooks for towel and washcloth, and a built-in liner.

Stiff drink whiskey stones. Teroforma. $20

Save your whiskey from the corrupting powers of dilution! A modern reboot of the Scandinavian habit of keeping drinks literally "on the rocks," each set of nine freezable Vermont soapstone cubes makes for three cool, stiff drinks.

A crock pot not for cooking. Le Creuset. $19.95

This utensil-wrangling crock pot is too pretty to put over a flame—instead, round up your kitchen's loose ends and let them sit in Le Creuset's bright cobalt pot indefinitely.

A cookbook for a home on the range. Indiebound. $29.99

Bring the range to your stovetop with Lisa Fain's collection of dishes inspired by the six flags over Texas (think chili gravy cheese enchiladas and coffee-chipotle brisket). Buy it through indiebound, and your Lone Star cravings can help fund the local independent bookstore closest to your kitchen.