Do Ecards Really Mean Green Cards?
The shortest, and really good news for the Planet, answer is YES!
If you have any environmental awareness at all you have probably been in a terrible dilemma this Christmas. Should you send everyone Ecards as opposed to the traditional paper variety? Sending zero cards is definitely the greenest option, but not exactly a sociable or festive option. OK so you have always chosen, written and posted what 100, 200 paper printed cards? Yet you have felt very guilty on the one hand about chopping down tress and on the other about appearing 'Scrooge-like'.
If you are already committed to using Ecards then carry on the good work and go read something else because I'm going to make the ecological case for switching to Ecards. Do we know for sure which is greener - Ecards or printed paper cards? Well yes we do. Look at the following investigation done by treehugger.com.
Ecards use less energy, rain forest resources! Treehugger took the same batch of 50-cards and calculated, in order to compare, the energy, emissions and waste of Ecards with the traditional method. Imagine you post out 50 paper cards, that will take around 2 to 5 minutes per card to select, write and allocate to their recipients. Then Treehugger assumed 2 to 3 hours of time spent on line to email out the same Ecards. According to Treehugger.com the typical laptop computer consumes between 65 - 250 watts of electricity. Using an online electricity usage calculator at the 'Mr. Electricity' (Yes you can do this test for yourself if you don't believe us) website shows a laptop using roughly the equivalent of .1 kWh for two and a half of usage, and a mean of 1.37 lbs carbon dioxide per hour. Those 3-4 lbs of CO2 and small costs of electricity are a mere fraction of the amounts ascribed to printed paper cards. OK so the comparisons are only rough and ready but the difference is very significant.
For an enormous selection of Christmas themed Ecards, head over to <your company name here> where each Ecard conserves a little of the rain forest, saves a little greenhouse gas emission because the E card is definitely more ecologically sound than a print paper card.
Ecards can also be used for charity donations or ecological donations to the third World. If you could do it with a print paper card you can do it with an Ecard and ease your conscience at the same time, so happy holiday making. Ecards are more energy-efficient than paper cards so you are not only being thoughtful towards the intended recipient of the Ecard you are being a responsible World citizen to boot.
A final word then for those people who cannot imagine not sending a tactile tree killer to their family or special loved ones. How about just printing out your favorite and special Ecards and delivering them by hand at the next opportunity, minus the envelope of course.
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