I was thrilled to see that we have been included in the list of sites for e-cards on a very eco website: mygreenaustralia.com.
We all know that paper cards are still very much in vogue and many people still love to receive a card in the mail, but the gang at mygreenaustralia.com are trying to help people see the brilliance in e-cards, both environmentally and also artistically.
You can read all about us here in this article!
Today is April 22 – Earth Day, a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. Some people say that every day should be Earth Day. But Joseph Romm from Climate Progress says that maybe we should dump Earth Day and change it to “Triage Day”.
divine.ca lists 10 Ways to Reduce Waste. Most people should be able to do some of them, if not all.
“According to the Woodland Trust, recycling just one Christmas card saves enough electricity to allow five people to watch the [UK] Queen’s Christmas day message.” in …Turn old cards into gift tags. “Last year more than 93 million cards were collected by the Woodland Trust – enough to enable the charity to plant 22,000 trees – or a forest the size of 44 football pitches.”
That is a lot of tree cut down for the cards, not to mention all other related activities (turning trees into paper cards, delivering cards to stores, buying the cards, mailing the cards, etc.). The best way to save the environment is to reduce consumption.