Eco-Friendly Consumption? Critics Don't Buy It

What's the green approach to the holidays?

If you listen to the marketers, manufacturers and retailers, it's all about buying environmentally sensitive products -- biodegradable cards, gift wrap made from wastepaper and glass objets d'art fashioned from old beer bottles.

Some critics are quick to assail the notion that you can go green by spending money, saying that this kind of eco-Christmas is more artificial than a plastic tree.

But others call the trend a way to ease consumers into a greener way of life.