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Oh Come, Let Us Go Paperless
About 2.6 billion holiday cards are sold each year in the United States. That's an awful lot of paper. And what do you usually do with your holiday cards? That's right. Throw them away. Or keep them in a box. Or (hopefully) recycle them.
So in addition to my consumption-free holiday season, I'm also going paperless this year.
If you want to do the same (and have procrastinated in sending your holiday cards as I have) then consider sending electronic greeting cards this year.
There are always Hallmark's e-cards; Mother Earth News has an earth-friendly card; or if you want to be fancy (and if your computer has a camera and microphone hook-up), you can send a video greeting using YouTube's QuickCapture. All of these options are free!
If you have other ideas, please share them below in the comments section.
And if you need some inspiration, here's the holiday greeting from NASA's crew at the International Space Station. Would have been difficult for them to mail their cards, I suppose.