Green DIY Biz Cards
By SustainableSuppers
Hiya!
Just uploaded a post on turning junk mail and old holiday cards into business cards.
http://www.sustainablesuppers.com/bizcard/
The Big Corporate Behemoth under whose employ I once toiled used to take care of that whole networking/printing shazam. But this week, after RSVPing to an alumni function, I was seized by the fact that, yes, Virginia, (a more mundane state) I needed business cards.
Except. I’m someone who turns apple cores into tea (and vinegar _ upcoming post!) and who makes her own shampoo and deodorant to help both my wallet and the environment, so business cards presented a conundrum: they’re bad for the planet, even if the recipient ends up recycling them. In fact, the recipient often fails to even give your card a second glance, especially after initial contact has been established. Ideally, business cards would go the way of the dodo bird, although since we’re talking about the planet here, perhaps that’s too morose an allusion. They should go the way of the unicycle _ an inefficient, quirky oddity thankfully usurped by a more efficient and streamlined method of transport. In this case, virtual business cards transport one’s contact information quite nicely. Except that people need to remember your URL or email address or your, um, name to access said info. And people, especially the poorly fed and expansive and well-lubricated people one meets at alumni parties or at conventions, often display a mighty aversion to remembering names of any sort.
Therefore, unless your URL is hello dot com or your email address WorshipMeNOW@God dot com, you need a physical card.
To acquire mine, I could have walked down the street to Kinkos, or I could have ordered them online. In fact, there are indeed companies who print cards on recycled paper using soy-based ink. But then they’d be using large amounts of fossil fuels to transport the cards, and that, like the dodo bird, just didn’t fly.
For more, go here: http://www.sustainablesuppers.com/bizcard/
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DesigningMom
Great idea. I'm starting a new business of refinishing & repurposing old furniture. I'll also make some new pieces of furniture using old materials when I can find them. Having recycled business cards is a great idea. I've been meaning to make some cards to hand out, but like you, couldn't make up my mind and hated to some made that didn't fit my business goal. Keeping things out of landfills.
Thanks,
~Becky <><
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