This entry is part 6 of 29 in the series Eco-Friendly Friday

Eco-Friendly Friday

July 18th's Tip

Greeting Cards: In the U.S. alone, about 7 billion greeting cards are purchased each year. Wonder how many trees go into making those cards? I'm not sure I want to know! Why not forgo the traditional card, and send an e-card? Another benefit to e-cards is many of them are free! If you don't want to go that route, try buying recycled cards (which any card shop should carry), or tree-free cards. You an even make your own cards out of recycled paper.

Helpful Links:
E-Cards at 123greetings
E-Cards at Blue Mountain
Tree-Free Greetings
Grow-A-Note Greeting Cards
Recycled Cards fro Curiousities
Handmade Tree-Free Paper

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Stay tuned next week when I hope to have a site redesign that I have been working on done. Nothing drastic, but I wanted to make the site a little more reader friendly and attractive.

Stefanie








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5 Responses to “Eco-Friendly Friday Tips Volume Six”



  1. Ecological is the new tendancy nowadays, it's for environnement and thanks for you to support this!

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  2. Really great idea - I will be checkign these sites out and will be sending e-cards from now on.

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  3. Ikalangita, Joanna, thanks for the comments. Always good to see some other greenies out there :)

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  4. Couldn't agree with you more. I've always found greeting cards to be a waste, I much, much prefer a short e-mail message that's actually written by the person than some generic card they paid $5 for. My mom on the other hand is the complete opposite and I've been trying to explain to her for years that greeting cards are bad environmentally AND are more annoying than anything else but alas, baby boomers are wicked stuck in their ways.

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  5. Adam, my mom loves greeting cards, too. I bought her one a few years ago because the front was a reproduction of a beautiful piece of art, and she framed it!

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