Green Options

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A trendy friend of mine gave me one of her new business cards yesterday and I was immediately blown away. These tiny (1” x 2 -1/2”) alternatives to large bulky cards are chic, obviously eco friendly and so right for today’s entrepreneur.

If you, like me find yourself the proprietor of a business…or more frequently businesses that can get hard to cram into a traditional format you may like these tiny cards. Counter intuitively, the lack of space is freeing. Rather than having to decide which information is the most important, these cards leave space for little more than name, phone, URL and e-mail address, so no decision is necessary. (Though I did cheat and include some type on the photo I selected for the back.)

More importantly, the entrepreneurs responsible for developing these tiny cards saw the renewed interest in old fashioned calling cards. While years ago, calling cards were a standard accessory of the well mannered crowd, as more and more of the formerly jobless (older men and women, mothers, trust fund babies) went to work, the standard business card replaced the “calling card”.

Warning: so, as the video and Oprah’s darling du jour and guerrilla closet warrior Peter Walsh so clearly outlines, our pack-rat habits are making us chubby. They can also be a barrier to us going green. Not surprising, did you notice that your lean and toned friends also tend to have pretty darn spotless, sustainability-forward and organized homes, while your plumper friends tend to lavish in “chaotic creative” spaces. Hmmm…

An http://www.greenprinteronline.com dispatch.

When companies make the shift to reduce the carbon footprint of their supply chain, paper is one of the first – but perhaps most overlooked – ways to shed those office carbon pounds.

But the carbon, environmental and cost savings benefits of switching from virgin paper to more sustainable paper didn’t escape Sustainable Business Design - a consulting firm that provides carbon footprint, greenhouse gas audits and “The Low Carb Corporate Diet” ™ [...]

Cereal: it's a staple in American breakfasts, but we never thought about putting a staple in it - until now. There's nothing more appropriate than arriving to a networking breakfast with business cards printed on cereal boxes. Now that's what we call reuse!

We first learned of this idea from green LA girl, who showed us how she made her own business cards before heading off to partake in some green

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