Virtual Christmas Cards

I’m going a new direction with my Christmas Card giving this year. This is a VERY hard change for me, because I LOVE to write up a Christmas letter with pictures and mail to EVERYONE! But, even using recycled products for this project, isn’t really helping my carbon footprint reduction :-(

Therefore, I just signed up for a great online greeting card program that is done all via internet. The selection of virtual cards for Christmas, birthday’s, thank you, etc, is quite significant. Plus, they are animated and very unique. I had never heard of this company until I received a card via a LinkedIn associate this week. The website is located at www.jacquielawson.com.

I am still going to have to put together a letter of sorts and probably mail it out to those, who are not connected to the internet. But, that will be a very small number. I may still need to put out an online Christmas letter with my Virtual Christmas Card, but that will be relatively easy.

Besides the savings in paper, postage, time, etc., the bigger picture is that I’ll be creating less waste. That’s my newest gift to this beautiful planet.

What will you be able to give to Earth for Christmas this year?

Here's a winter card greeting to share with all of you: Winter Card

Step 2 of My 12 Steps To Combat Climate Change

In a previous post, I shared about the Twelve Steps To Unite To Combat Climate Change on the World Environment Day website. Then, I decided that I would like to become more accountable and have begun to share the 12 Steps on this forum, and what I am personally doing to walk through them.

Last week, I talked about Step Number One, which was Commitment. In this post today, I am focusing on the Step #2.

Step Number Two: Assess Where You Stand

By assessing where I stand, I will know where and how I generate greenhouse gases. There are numerous online calculators and I have previously tried a few of them. But today, I discovered a very cool website called, One Million Acts of Green.

"When we all do one act, we act as one, and help the planet", is the motto on One Million Acts of Green website. On the site I completed a completely painless, but very thought provoking survey, on what actions I have taken and what actions I pledge to take, to reduce my carbon footprint on the planet.

Based on my "Completed Acts of Green", the site actually provided my personal contribution of reduction of my carbon footprint, based upon these completed acts. As, I continue to follow through and check off my "Pledged Acts of Green", then the amount of my carbon footprint reduction will increase.

I encourage those reading this post, to please go to their website and check out the numerous resources available on it. In addition to the survey and carbon footprint calculator, there is information on educating about the environment, forums, blogs, groups and challenges. This website is definitely worth bookmarking and referring back to regularly.