Green Holidays: e-cards for business
From Hallmark to ClickZ, everyone is touting e-cards. It’s not a new concept, but one that is continue to grow in popularity.
But what can someone do if they want to send business-like e-cards.
In today’s article, Make It a Green Christmas With E-Cards, Karen Gedney lists not only why she sends e-cards to during the holidays, but other great ideas she has:
1. Grow-A-Note cards: cards are printed on recycled paper embedded with wildflower seeds that you can actually plant in the spring.
2. Borealis Press: All cards from The Borealis Press are printed with soy inks, on acid-free, chlorine-free recycled paper.
But the real prize is SaveATreeCards.com. This site offers a collection of business-appropriate e-cards that anyone can send for free.
Need reasons to go with e-cards over their standard paper counterparts? Here are a few facts from the SaveATreeCards site:
* The pulp and paper industry is the fourth highest user of electricity, accounting for 6% of the nation’s total demand.
* Of the global wood harvest (for everything but fuel wood), 42% goes to paper production.
* Industrial nations, with 20% of the world’s population, consume 87% of the world’s printing and writing papers.
* Global production in the pulp, paper and publishing sector is expected to increase 77% from 1995 to 2020.
* The pulp and paper industry is the single largest consumer of water used in industrial activities in OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] countries and is the third greatest industrial greenhouse emitter, after the chemical and steel industries.
* About 71% of the world’s paper supply is made, not from timber harvested at tree farms, but from forest-harvested timber in regions with ecologically valuable, biologically diverse habitat.
These numbers and concepts aren’t really new. But they do underscore how critical it is that we find alternatives to normal paper usage. Shopping? Bring your own reusable grocery bag. Sending holiday greetings: now you can use companies such as SaveATreeCards.com to send beautiful and appropriate holiday greetings to business associates. A win!
