Vegans Jodi and Dan make eclectic, handmade gifts, including photo albums, journals, greeting cards, and jewelry. Their products are designed to help you reflect, appreciate each moment, and remember what's important in life: peace, love, beauty, and fun! While all of the paper they use is not made in US, their studio is located in Northern California, USA.
Their motto, "freedom from the ordinary ~ freedom for the animals," applies to their creations and their lives. To make a difference while doing something they love, they currently donate 5% of profits to animal welfare groups.
Because it's important to protect our planet, their paper comes from environmentally friendly, sustainable sources. Each of their paper products includes a card explaining the origins of the paper, and what makes it eco friendly. Their greeting card paper is also 100% recycled from post consumer sources!
They use handmade environmentally friendly paper from all over the world.
~Lokta Paper
~Banana Paper
~Mulberry Paper
~Mango Paper
Why do they use handmade paper? Besides the fact that it beautiful…
On average, a person uses more than 750 pounds of paper each year, which is the equivalent of nine big trees. More than half of the wood used by humans goes into various paper products, including boxes, napkins, disposable dishes, gift wrap, etc. These products rarely contain recycled fiber, and most of them are made of freshly cut trees. Each year many of the world's biologically rich forests are disappearing at an alarming rate and the cause is the expansion of industrial tree plantations, which supply pulp to meet worldwide demands for paper products.
With demand for paper expected to double in the coming years and the impact this will have on the world's forests, the search for alternative sources of paper pulp has become very important. It takes 60% less energy to manufacture paper from recycled stock than from virgin materials. Production of a ton of normal paper needs 20 trees and 7,000 more gallons of water than a ton of 100% recycled paper. Moreover, chemicals like chlorine are used in the bleaching process of these papers that releases chemical dioxin and other toxins, which pollutes our air, soil and water. Sometimes 1000-year old trees are sliced up and shredded into chips, shipped across the entire world, only to be chemically pulverized, bleached, and flattened to satiate the world's ever-increasing appetite for paper products.
Their cards, journals and photo albums have to be touched to be fully appreciated. The beauty of how the textures come together is amazing! They are so beautiful, they can be framed and hung on the wall to be admired by all!
Buy one for yourself, a loved one or a client. You'll make a statement with your discerned taste, care for the environment and consideration of the recipenient!
Their work available at Sweet Organics and Naturals!