Happy Valentine's Day!!!

THREE LEAF CARDS LOVES YOU!
We want to wish all our great clients, partners, and non profit partners (Breast Cancer Fund, Sustainable Conservation, Co-Op America, Mountain Institute, 1% for the Planet and Conservation Fund) a wonderful heart day!

We love you all - thank you for your support of our great online greeting cards. We love serving a greater good :)

Oh, and it's not too late to send a fabulous Valentine's Day eCard!

Last Minute Valentine's Day eCards

I have been buried, hence the lack of posts this week, BUT I was a good girl and sent all my loved ones Valentine's Day eCards with Three Leaf Cards. Who has time to send paper cards these days anyway?

It's not too late, save time and trees and support great non profits - give a great nature card...and give your people a moment of nature zen with those fab cards :0)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!! May you all be conscious spenders even on this Hallmark holiday! Give a plantable plant, something that makes oxygen, an online greeting card, organic dinner, wine...green can be romantic you know!

Help Spread the Word About Climate Change

Hey Coolio Conscious People!

Since it's almost that time to give thanks, I thought I'd suggest that we give thanks for nature and the planet and take advantage of the power of the world wide web and:

1. connect with people you care about
2. help spread the word about climate change (it's not going away, awareness is the first step towards conscious change)

Check out the free powerful climate change cards on Three Leaf Cards and the slightly satirical climate change card and send the card around!

Have a great day!
P.S. The "Glacier Guy Free Video" was featured at an NRDC dinner

Three Leaf In Santa Barbara Independent - Green Greeting Cards

Three Leaf Cards was featured in the Santa Barbara Independent today! Very cool that our local press is into conscious companies, especially as we approach the holidays. It's the year to send tree-free cards!

The State Of The Paper Industry

According to GreenBiz.net, we aren't the only people working to limit our consumption of paper in the office and in business in general. On average, 42% of industrial wood harvest goes to paper.

The State of Paper Industry report produced by the Environmental Paper Network, takes a first-of-its-kind look at the paper consumption world, from recycling to forest depletion, within the context of climate crisis.

With "Reducing Your Carbon Footprint" becoming a common topic for more and more companies in North America, businesses are waking up and becoming more aware of their carbon footprint. They are taking steps to help alleviate their impact on global warming and the ever-threatening climate crisis.

Just a couple of key findings from the report include:

* Paper manufacturing is the largest consumer and polluter of our fresh water resources

* The paper industry is No. 4 contributor to greenhouse emissions.

You can read the full article and download the report by visiting GreenBiz.net.

You can run, but you can't hide from climate change

Yep, you heard me. Climate change is scary...and so is Halloween, so in the name of seasonal online greetings, Three Leaf Cards created a spooky halloween ecard that has a cute climate change twist.

Check out the scary climate change ecard and tell us what you think.

And in the name of upcoming Hallmark holidays, there's no harm in a shameless pitch to remind all our conscious customers that you can send meangingful cards online to save time, money, stamps, resources and contribute to great nonprofit organizations (who are working to make the planet a better place) all at the same time.

Get a membership to Three Leaf Cards and you can pre-schedule all your Halloween cards now!

GreenBASE likes us :)

We were pleasantly surprised today to see that the folks at GreenBASE (the intersection of music and climate change) posted Three Leaf Card's climate change video. Rock, rock on!

Paper and Plastic With That?

Plastic-lid boxes are already lining the holiday aisles at our local stores,
with hundreds of paper Christmas greetings to choose from.

But, the 150-year old tradition of Christmas cards just got harder.
According to an article published by USA Today, the “blanket” Christmas card
no longer suffices, as it does not allow for personalization.

Now imagine sending out a small number, like 100 different cards to 100
different people, on top of the shopping that is required for those who are
getting gifts and to make sure Santa has everything on the list.

And now imagine personalizing each card, from the type of card to the
message inside, for each of those 100 people on your list. This small task
just got daunting, didn’t it?!

According to Hallmark, 2 billion paper cards will be sent this Christmas!
Now that is a heck of a lot of trees, wouldn’t you agree?

Other environmentally damaging manufacturing practices are used in
generating paper greetings, and that includes toxic printer inks. There is
also energy being used and pollution generated to produce, deliver, sale and
re-deliver these cards.

So where do electronic greetings fit in? For those who would like to save a
few thousand trees, provide that personal greeting and create a
self-maintained address book/checklist, online greetings are a great option.

In the USA Today article, Jamie Shaw, who lives in Utah and Rio de Janeiro,
says she couldn't keep track of all her friends' addresses to send each a
physical card, and with electronic cards she can customize different e-cards
for different recipients.

So what happens when you receive a paper greeting? Well, if you aren’t a
pack rat, then we recommend that if there is a mixed-paper recycling program
near you, you can just put your old greeting cards in with those old
newspapers and magazines, and join the force of online greetings.