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When an e-card won't do the trick, sustainable stationery says you care about the receiver and the planet they live in.
COCKTAIL FACT
90% of people who receive an unexpected greeting card respond immediately, either by telephoning the sender or by sending a card or letter in return.
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Wanna show you really care?
The Bite
Of course you do. So opt for recycled cards with Biter flair when sending love, sympathy, best wishes on the fourth engagement, or congrats on the new nose.The Benefits
- Saving trees. A tiny percentage of the 2.65 billion cards bought in the United States each year are made from sustainable paper; send greeting-card makers a message with your purchase.
- Sweet (not saccharine) messages. Spare your loved ones from schmaltzy poems.
- Connecting with friends and fam. Of course email is more eco, but cards are a shpeshial way to keep in touch.
Personally Speaking
The editorial team spent an hour reading all 40 Sappycards. Our maniacal laughter made the people next door wonder what type of eco-happy pills we'd gotten into.Wanna Try?
- Sappycards - hilarious cards printed with veggie inks on 100% post-consumer waste paper ($10/6).
- Loop Doodlespark Notecards - moms and daughters collabo'ed to create naturalistic drawings on paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council ($17/8).
- Pop-Up Mountain Cards - handmade, fair-trade pop-up cards from Nepal ($17/6).
- Yee-Haw Industries Sideshow Cards - letter-pressed cards with circus-inspired illustrations ($16/6).
- Letterfu - print your own cards, then fold and send them without envelopes, cutting, or glue.
Sep 25,2007
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Correspondence-Envy
You people. You know who you are. You remember birthdays and send a card. You compile great photos from shared experiences and pop them in an envelope accompanied by a perfect slip of stationary. Magically, you even manage to send out your thank you before it seems you have even had time to open the present…
Me? You’re lucky if I even remember to dash off an email to you sometime during the month after your birthday.
-Heather…off to get some Sappycards to have on hand for the perfect occasions…
Me? You’re lucky if I even remember to dash off an email to you sometime during the month after your birthday.
-Heather…off to get some Sappycards to have on hand for the perfect occasions…
Biter Comments...
also try
www.womancraft.net
socially AND environmentally responsible!
Reminds me of the interview that I did with Tug Boat Press here in San Francisco - they use vegetable inks and make their own paper.
http://victoria-e.com/2007/08/06/punky-piercer-runs-a-green-letterpress-biz/
Is it REALLY more eco-friendly to send an e-card? I often wonder about this question, in other areas besides e-cards. It would seem like there's less impact from using the Internet and our computers, instead of "real" things, but the Internet and computers have their impact, too: the manufacture of the computers, the generating of the electricity, etc. How do you calculate which is more eco-friendly? I think I'll go with recycled cards.
Or you could go totally paperless and play with Jacquie Lawson's site. Her e-cards are nothing short of spectacular. I often go there just to gawk at the cards. There is a fee but these days it is less than the price of three cards, if I remember the fee right. Heck, it might be less than two cards, I haven't looked recently!
The Arbor Day Foundation has Give-A-Tree cards. For $5.95, you get a card and a tree is planted in a national forest.
http://www.arborday.org/shopping/giveatree/giveatree.cfm
Three Leaf Cards www.threeleafcards.com is the greenest ecard company out there! They spread the word about climate change and donate to environmental NGOs! The nature cards are the best I've seen.
I have an awesome coworker who bought me a notebook made from elephant poo. It smells like the circus or a barn (because it smells like hay). It's a beautiful notebook and a great talking piece. http://poopoopaper.com/
PHOTO ALBUMS
Posted by: Planet Relations | September 25, 2007 at 06:36 AM