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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5 Responses
1
ikalangita
July 19th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Ecological is the new tendancy nowadays, it's for environnement and thanks for you to support this!
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Joanna
July 20th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Really great idea - I will be checkign these sites out and will be sending e-cards from now on.
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Stefanie
July 25th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Ikalangita, Joanna, thanks for the comments. Always good to see some other greenies out there
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Adam Pieniazek
July 26th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
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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Stefanie
July 28th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
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!