See below the text box for our other green business policies, and ways that you, too, can reduce your carbon footprint.
Contrary to Popular Sentiment, it IS Easy being Green!
Gratitude Games are Green!
The crew who brings you Gratitude Games are grateful for a healthy global environment. And we want to do our part to safe-guard the ecosystem for future generations.
So Gratitude Games are green products. No shipping, no handling, no packaging = no waste! A download link is sent immediately upon purchase.
Go GREEN; it’s is as easy as 1, 2, 3!
1. Visit download page – sent to you when you order.
2. Download files.
3. Print items or play from your computer.
The technical details of buying GRATITUDE GAMES green: a high-speed internet connection all that’s required.
Five Reasons to Go Green with Gratitude Games
- Combat the waste of shipping; each mile a product travels to get to shop, or to your house, or a shop then your house, leaves a carbon footprint.
- Eliminate the packaging required for shipment. The overnight shipping industry alone uses over a billion envelopes and packages a year. (See below the text box for more details.)
- You can print the items as green as you like – if your home or home office is fully green, than so is your product! If you have a paper/printer-free office, you can have them printed by a local green printer, or the nearest superstore. Your choice!
- Reduces manufacturing cost, saving you – and us – money.
- Reduces manufacturing waste; when lots are manufactured, there are pieces that may or may not sell, and all the packaging that goes along with each piece. With downloads, only what you need to print is printed, so there’s no unnecessary waste.
Our Green Business Practices
- If U.S. businesses cut office paper use by only 10%, it would prevent the emission of 1.6 million tons of greenhouse gases (the equivalent of taking 280,000 cars off the road).
If you aren’t ready to go paper-free, recycle! Recycling 1 ton of paper saves:
- 17 mature trees.
- 7 thousand gallons of water.
- 3 cubic yards of landfill space.
- 2 barrels of oil (84 US gallons).
- 4,100 kilowatt-hours (15 GJ) of electricity; enough energy to power the average American home for five months. (Citation: wikipedia)
- No e-waste; printers and faxes, in addition to computers, create electronic waste. (See links below for more about the e-waste problem.)
- No ink cartridge waste.
- We use very little heat – in the winter time we move most of our operations into a family space that’s already warmed, to reduce heating use.
- Turn off lights when not in use.
- Turn off all appliances not in use.
