Green Field Paper Company is celebrating its 20th anniversary

Green Field Paper Company is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

 

Green Field Paper Company is celebrating its 20th anniversary

Green Field Paper Company is celebrating its 20th anniversary. It was Earth Day, 1992 when the first sheet of 100% Junk Mail® paper went on display. There is story behind that day that Jeff Lindenthal, the founder, will be sharing.

In 1992, Ross Perot ran against George Bush and Bill Clinton for President and the average cost of a gallon of gas was $1.05.  Windows 3.1 was released and AT&T released a video telphone with a cost of $1.499. The Dow closed at 3301 that year. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development ( The Earth Summit ) was held in Brazil.

We are looking for different ways to celebrate this 20th year and would welcome any ideas.

 

Holiday Cards 2011

Well, it is almost the end of another holiday season. We received a lot of holiday cards in the mail this year, albeit less than years past, and carefully read and hung each one in our lobby. While most conveyed simple good wishes, some contained well thought out handwrtiten notes. One was from someone who had not done business from in two years. I am going to look them up and probably see about doing some business in 2012. Employees and visitors alike look to see who sent certain that caught their eye.

The cards we received by mail will remain hanging in our lobby until New Years for all to enjoy. One of our our employees has laid claim to a number of the cards to use the images when she decorates her Fabrege eggs.

I received a number e-mail holiday wishes as well. I really can’t say who sent them as I gave them the same amount of time and consideration that the sender took to hit “send all”. I simply hit “delete”…

 

Update on Whole Foods Plantable Gift Card Holder

We received this image this morning from Whole  Foods® Team along with feedback that the gift card holders are a HIT so far!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With a note saying:

Check it out- our first sprouts!  The gift that keeps giving- grab a few with your gift cards!

Plant it and they will grow! 

 

Happy Holidays!

 

 

Green Field Paper California 2011 WRAP Award Winner

From a press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

– December 13, 2011 Sacramento CA

California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) announces that Green Field Paper Company is a 2011 WRAP Award Winner.

The Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) is administered by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). WRAP provides an opportunity for California businesses and nonprofit organizations to gain public recognition for their outstanding waste reduction efforts and lets the community know the business takes waste reduction seriously. WRAP evaluates the waste reduction, procurement, and education activities in the internal business practices of the applicant, not in the services or products it may provide.

In addition to the water and waste reduction practices followed by Green Field Paper Company, they also produce products that are environmentally friendly. Hemp Heritage is produced using 25% hemp fiber and 75% post consumer. Grow A Note products are made with 100% postconsumer with the paper embedded with wildflower seed. The seed paper will biodegrade naturally and sprout flowers. The 100% Junk Mail paper is made from 100% postconsumer and infused with cuttings and scraps from “3rd class” mail. New this year is a paper embedded with Chia seeds. All of Green Field Paper Company products are made in the USA.

Green Field Paper Company papers are used in promotional pieces, mailers, invitations, announcements and as art papers, greeting cards and stationery.

In addition to WRAP award, Green Field Paper Company has received Recycler of the Year awards from the City of San Diego. Green Field Paper Company manufactures it’s products at its facility at 7196 Clairemont Mesa Blvd in San Diego, CA.

They can be contacted at 858-565-2585 or sales@greenfieldpaper.com. Website is www.greenfieldpaper.com

More information can be found online at http://www.greenfieldpaper.com

 

 

Whole Foods Gift Card Holder

Green Field Paper recently completed shipping of over 70,000 custom plantable gift card holders for Whole Foods®  east coast division. These gift card holders were made using our Grow A Note® plantable seed embedded paper. The truly unique patent pending design was created by the Green Field design team.

A panel card version:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the folded card version:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green Field Paper turned this job around in less than three weeks including printing, die cutting and final assembly/packaging.  These are only available on the east coast presently. So, when you go to your local Whole Foods®, ask about the plantable gift card holders. They are the perfect personalization/compliment to the gift card.

 

Postal Service Twenty years later…

“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Often thought to be motto of the United StatesPost Office, it was actually written in 430 BC describing the perseverance of the mounted messenger service used by the King of Prussia.

Find yourself the 1991 edition ofCompton’s Encyclopedia, the 26 Volume set still available on eBay or Amazon, or you may have a set in your attic, and go to Volume 19 and look up Postal Service. On page 551, you will find information about the Postal Service along with this photo of a Postman behind his truck.

Twenty years later and after the millions of pieces of mail he has personally delivered, here he is, our Postman, Jose. Neither sun, nor surf , nor Santa Ana winds have kept him from his appointed rounds. He hasn’t changed a bit.

 

 

Don’t write anymore?

I read an article in our local newspaper the other day (yes, I still read the newspaper, cover to cover, daily) about the fact that people do not write and mail personal letters, notes or cards to one other anymore. All have been replaced primarily by the instant gratification of e-mails, texts, tweets and e-cards. The typical household, it said, will go two months before a personal letter shows up whereas as recent as 1987 it was once every two weeks.

 It went on to point out that, in the future, there would be no old “love letters” discovered in boxes in the attic but rather circulating on the internet, if people care to look for them. Recently, while looking in a drawer,  I came across a card from my wife for our tenth anniversary. A pleasant find as we just celebrated our twentieth. If it were an e-card, it might have been lost forever in one of my hard disk crashes over the past ten years… 

Just the other day, I received a personal hand-written note from a printer I met a trade show. Unlike other pieces of mail, I read it thoroughly. It still is on my desk whereas nearly all other correspondence has already made its way to the recycle bin.  When it is hand written, it seems to have a more personal impact.

 I usually send out hand written notes (“wee” notes as my neighbor calls them) when I send correspondence or samples. No Times New Roman or Arial font, just my sometimes crooked script. I have to put a little more thought into it before I write it as there is no spell check, backspace or delete on my pen.

 Just think about it, if half of us would send a personal letter or note a few times a year, we would probably go along way to solving the Postal Service deficit and maybe make a a lot of people smile along the way.

 

Green Field Paper Company launches redesigned and revitalized website

Today we launched our redsigned website www.greenfieldpaper! This is the first major re-design since 2006. Check it out and let us know what you think.

 

Blackout Block Party

The power went out from Orange County to Rosarito, MX to Yuma at about 3PM. San Diego was blacked out for hours.

We made the best of it by getting some necessary supplies (beer, wine, champagne, chips and dips) and having a party with our good friends and nextdoor neighbors at Curds & Wine. We watched the NFL game on my cellphone as we watched the traffic slowly clear up.