Serving an EarthWise Community and Promoting a Sustainable Future for All
Planting the Mustard Seed...
...for all generations to come...that was, and is still, my goal!
This is a story of a 29 year old wife and mother of three daughters (and three wonderful kitties), who was born with the desire to save the world in her heart and soul. As a child, I could not bear to see people suffering, did not want any part of anything that hurt animals, nature, or people. I just wanted everyone to feel safe, healthy, and loved.
As I grew into a teenager and then an adult, my appreciation and concern for people, animals, and the environment grew like a wildflower seed in a field! To this day, I will not harm or kill anything, not even bugs or spiders. I rescue bees with a cup and put them back outside.
My mission to "go green" began (slowly) and with little steps (like replacing paper napkins with washable cloth ones). My husband and I started weeding out waste, donating, recycling, reusing, reinventing old ways and items to make a newer, more eco friendly lifestyle! We make a conscious effort every day to avoid waste by precycling.
As for my business, Greetings that Grow is my way of changing the world, by planting one seed at a time. I first began working with plantable paper in 2008. I loved the idea that a card could be planted, but wanted to create something more unique and memorable.
I came up with the idea of making a plantable card that had a removable photograph print. After extensive research confirming that no one else had made such a card, I began making and selling my greetings that grow in my Amoment Amemory 28 photography shop on Etsy.com.
When I first began making the plantable cards, I used plantable paper that was handmade by etsy paper makers. During these first months, I spent much time researching paper making, with the goal that I would start making my own paper in Jan 2009.
I am very pleased and proud that in January 2009, as planned, I began making my own handmade plantable paper. In that same month, I opened up my (all plantable) Greetings that Grow™ shop on etsy.com AND became a licensed official business in the state of New York!
My goal for 2009 is to educate people about greetings that grow. It is my hope that more people will choose not only to purchase cards (and gifts) that are more sustainable (and give back to the earth!), but that my greetings that grow will motivate and inspire others to think up and create items and businesses that are more eco friendly...and in doing so, enable my mustard seed to grow into a grand and beautiful tree....that can stand proudly next those which you yourself will one day plant along side me!!!!
This is a story of a 29 year old wife and mother of three daughters (and three wonderful kitties), who was born with the desire to save the world in her heart and soul. As a child, I could not bear to see people suffering, did not want any part of anything that hurt animals, nature, or people. I just wanted everyone to feel safe, healthy, and loved.
As I grew into a teenager and then an adult, my appreciation and concern for people, animals, and the environment grew like a wildflower seed in a field! To this day, I will not harm or kill anything, not even bugs or spiders. I rescue bees with a cup and put them back outside.
My mission to "go green" began (slowly) and with little steps (like replacing paper napkins with washable cloth ones). My husband and I started weeding out waste, donating, recycling, reusing, reinventing old ways and items to make a newer, more eco friendly lifestyle! We make a conscious effort every day to avoid waste by precycling.
As for my business, Greetings that Grow is my way of changing the world, by planting one seed at a time. I first began working with plantable paper in 2008. I loved the idea that a card could be planted, but wanted to create something more unique and memorable.
I came up with the idea of making a plantable card that had a removable photograph print. After extensive research confirming that no one else had made such a card, I began making and selling my greetings that grow in my Amoment Amemory 28 photography shop on Etsy.com.
When I first began making the plantable cards, I used plantable paper that was handmade by etsy paper makers. During these first months, I spent much time researching paper making, with the goal that I would start making my own paper in Jan 2009.
I am very pleased and proud that in January 2009, as planned, I began making my own handmade plantable paper. In that same month, I opened up my (all plantable) Greetings that Grow™ shop on etsy.com AND became a licensed official business in the state of New York!
My goal for 2009 is to educate people about greetings that grow. It is my hope that more people will choose not only to purchase cards (and gifts) that are more sustainable (and give back to the earth!), but that my greetings that grow will motivate and inspire others to think up and create items and businesses that are more eco friendly...and in doing so, enable my mustard seed to grow into a grand and beautiful tree....that can stand proudly next those which you yourself will one day plant along side me!!!!
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First there was Earth and then there was Man. And Man reaped everything he could from our Earth but failed to "give back". And then there came a time of reckoning. And Man began to "give back"... Everything started to Change..... The World is changing. People are changing. And business has changed... Every business you find in our ethical directory is a giving business....giving back to Our Planet by working in the Spirit of Harmony with Earth. ...Every member on Pledging for Change is here because they believe in Giving Back in the Spirit of Harmony with Our Planet
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. -- John Wesley, "Letters of John Wesley"
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. -- Robert F. Kennedy
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