Americans exchange some 7 billion greeting cards each year, according to the Greeting Card Association, so one has only to extrapolate to begin to imagine how much paper and ink are involved worldwide. Enter the reusable greeting card, which we’ve now spotted on two different continents.
Minnesota-based Regreet, for example, uses labels and mailing supplies that make it [...]

Earth Greetings are dedicated to sustainable design.
The Earth Considered
Earth Greetings recognise the dire need to consider the impact on the Earth in everything we produce, consume and throw away.
We also recognise that printing and paper production has the potential to cause many and varied detrimental environmental effects, and is a significant contributor to global [...]

It is increasingly common for companies to turn over a new ‘green’ leaf by employing green initiatives. In many cases, a greener business can save money!  A great place to start is with eco-friendly printed products. Printing usually involves processes that need lots of nasty chemicals, and that’s where green printing changes that.
Eco-friendly note books, [...]

Going Green at Work: Top Tips

More Work, Less EnergyFor many people, a computer is the central tool at work. Optimizing the energy settings for computers and other devices can be more than a modest energy saver.

Pay your Bills Online
Again, stop wasting paper. Save some trees  Get your bills via e-mail instead of in your mailbox. By doing this you alone will probably be able save several hectares of trees annually from plundering.

Give Up Paper Towels
No matter how you look at it, paper towels create waste. During your next trip to the grocery store, buy some reusable microfiber towels, which grip dirt and dust like a magnet, even when they get wet. When you are finished with them, toss the towels in the wash and reuse them [...]

Green your Toilet Habits
Check for Leaks in Your Toilet

Most of us would be surprised to find out that one in every five toilets leak, and since the leaks are usually silent, you probably have no idea if your toilet is leaking. A leaking toilet can waste anywhere between 30 and 500 gallons of water [...]

Resolution 3 – Stop Receiving Unwanted Catalogs
Each year, 19 billion catalogs are mailed to American consumers. All those catalogs require more than 53 million trees and 56 billion gallons of wastewater to produce — and many of us don’t even know how we got on so many mailing lists! So grab that stack of catalogs [...]

Resolution 1 – Give Up Plastic (and Paper) Bags
Do you opt for paper or plastic when at the grocery store? Neither is a good choice. Twelve million barrels of oil were used to make the 88.5 billion plastic bags consumed in the United States last year. And it takes four times more energy to make [...]

New years parties are those where resolutions are often made. Why not resolve to be green and throw an environmentally friendly party to show it?