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The Of The Earth team,
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| Founded in 1995 by Kevin and Lori Graham; two people who shared a passion for each other and the world around them. Lori had just graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in Fiber Arts and Kevin had just left a career as a commercial fisherman in Alaska (both life changing experiences). In planning their own wedding they discovered they enjoyed working together both in making the necessary arrangements for a party for 135 people and while endeavoring to make their invitations. They still have some of the original invitation pieces (and have been surprised to learn over the years which friends hung onto them as well) which included a self mailing reply card (handmade), folding invitation card (handmade with flowers applied to the paper), a folding direction card with map (there were two versions of this as their friends received an email reply request - in 1995!!) and a handmade envelope sealed with wax. This amounted to more then three hundred individually formed sheets of paper made one at a time in their kitchen, dining, and living room (picture a one bedroom, 770sq. ft. condo). The kitchen blender was never to be the same (thank goodness for wedding gifts). On their honeymoon while recounting everything that lead up their big day, they discussed what they wanted out of life and realized that they had an opportunity to make a difference and a living together. In the majority of responses they received on their reply cards there were handwritten notes commenting on how much the invitations were loved (someday we will put scans of these online). They saw that wedding invitations touch so many people and can have an impact in their choice of words, paper and delivery. Lori and Kevin realized that by creating a business that embraces our environment with earth friendly practices and an earth focused product, they could reach even more people if they helped other couples to send green wedding invitations. In the intervening ten plus years their dream has become a reality with more then 1,000,000 people receiving a card or invitation made on paper created by hand with the earth in mind. Of The Earth is proud to continue offering great earth focused products. We are also proud of our efforts to be a low impact business, to encourage our customers to use less paper (we love single envelope invitations and postcard reply cards), to produce paper with recycled/recovered water and to use every practical measure possible to ensure an environmentally responsible workplace. Thank you for sharing our vision. Happily serving you from our Georgetown Studio! |
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| Our customers include Advanced Finishing Systems Applied Graphics, Inc BBDO Atlanta Bic Corp. Biome Lifestyle Blair Graphics Brookfield Media Brookstone Candle Co Bulgari Carolina Party & Paper Certified Inc. Che Bella Chocolations Chromatic Lithographers Conservancy Contessa Premium Foods Crown Enterprises, Inc. Custom Quilting Inc. DeanHouston, Inc. Deep Green Living Dominique Cohen Inc. Duncan Press E! Networks Environmental Defense European American Business Organization Event Network Inc. Fabricut Falconi Bros., Inc. FloraCraft Corporation Fortune Magazine Foundations, Inc. Fran Jackowitz Productions Franceska Schofield Frette GCI Group Ghalia Gift Baskets Creations by TK Green Source Growmark Inc. Harrington Capital Advisors, Inc. High-Ho International Hillson LTD Home Depot Human Options, Inc Hyatt Regency McCormick Place I Do Graphics impact events, inc. Incline to Design Indie Peace Ins and Outs Magazine International Paper Isola Imports, Inc. Ivie Inc. Jesse E. Lyman, Inc Jim Shore Designs julibee tea & bee co. Karlas Card Co. Kelly Ashworth Design Kindercraft Light&Salt Cards Lindenmeyr Paper Lori’s Natural Foods Center Martha Stewart Magazine MediaCOM Inc Mitaka USA, Inc. Mulberry Mom Paper Craft Supply Nature's Way, Inc. Neiman Marcus Paces Papers pacific home inc. Paper Treasures. Paperzest Paul Mitchell Pennsylvania Environmental Council Peresso Tudor Press Perfectly Natural Posh Paper Print Connection Propaganda Inc. Prudential RR Donnelley Rachel Leigh Safe Haven Santos Dumont -770 Elm Street Milford, NH 03055 Sarah Drake Design Service Machines Inc. SGDP Shorewood Packaging Signature-graphics.com Specialty Bindery and Printing Stephanie James Couture Steve Woods Printing Company streamlinevents.com Stuyvesant Press TargeGen, Inc. The Anderson Group Theo Chocolate Thread Tex Inc Timber Springs Time Inc Todd Johnson Productions Inc Tukiaz USA Environmental Management Inc. USA Hosts Vermillion Creative Group, Inc. Visual Melody, LLC Visual Print Solutions Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Wal-Mart Western Badge and Trophy Inc. Wild Child Wear Wish Enterprises, Inc.. Yahoo! |
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