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| Watch each card you play, and play it slow… Advocacy and Activism, Eco Gadgets, Education | Tuesday 3 February 2009 I’ll be the first to admit I never thought a game of Texas Hold’em could ever have anything to do with increasing your knowledge about sustainability…but I have been proven wrong. The folks at Green Foot Forward, were thinking way outside the green box when they came up with Eco Deck, a deck of 52 playing cards, each one featuring original art work and an eco-tip, fact, or solution to help educate and improve everyone’s green life. At first the idea seemed trivial, but then I stopped to thinkabout it… who among us doesn’t have a resistant friend or two? Those friends that love to play devil’s advocate, trash soda cans in front of you, and leave their car idling in the street when they come to pick you up, just to get your green hackles up?! This is the way you squeeze the green in. You invite anti-eco friend to your house for a friendly game of cards, and then you bust out- THE ECO DECK. Instead of the usual hearts and spades, you deal out a hand of DYKs about water, solar energy, environmental disasters and environmental solutions! So whilst anti-eco friend is contemplating his potential gin rummy, he’ll also be improving his environmental I.Q. and just might learn a thing or two about saving the earth that he never knew before…talk about a conversation starter! CLUBS cover eco facts from how burning coal and bad car mileage link to air pollution. DIAMONDS give water tips and facts, and remind us that over 2 billion of our brothers and sisters are in need of clean drinking water. HEARTS relate to electricity and energy derived from solar and wind. SPADES remind us about past man-made ecological disasters and the very real problems we face from Global Warming problems we face as humans. Eco Decks are crafted from sustainable forest paper, starch based laminating glue, vegetable based printing inks, and made in the U.S.A. As the environment changes (hopefully for the better), so will Eco Decks tips, facts, and solutions. Join the GFF mailing list and receive annual updated cards for FREE. Learn more about Green Food Forward at www.greenfootforward.com By Beth Buczynski, The GenGreenTeam |