We are totally in love with AMC’s Mad Men.  Dark, compelling, gorgeous, we can hardly wait for Sunday nights at 10.

Matt Weiner, the show’s creator, is obsessed with keeping the show true to the time period.

Hence the lack of environmental awareness or sustainable business practices.

We’ve come a long way in 40 years, and we’re not just talking about cocktails before noon and free range smoking.

Beginning today, every GreenPoma.com order will be shipped carbon neutral via UPS.

You can read more about it here:   http://www.carbonneutral.ups.com/?VId=CarbonNeutral&WT.mc_id=CarbonNeutral

What else are we doing to green our shipping?

1. Using single wall corrugated cardboard cartons manufactured by Norampac Thompson, Inc.  These cartons use much less pulp than traditional boxes–saving both trees and shipping weight–which means less fuel is needed to get our orders to you.
2. Protecting contents with crumpled paper that has  85% post consumer recycled  content.
3. Printing  all our invoices and office correspondence on 100%  post consumer recycled paper.
4. Collating multi-page invoices with a staple-free stapler.
5. Sealing cartons with 100% paper sealing tape.
6. Marking cartons Fragile or Glass with self-inking stamps made from 80% PC recycled plastic, with vegetable inks.

What are your best green business practices?  We’d love to hear your ideas for reducing our impact on the environment.

Best idea posted here by Friday October 16th will win one of our 3 way CFL spirals. A great green choice for bedside or other reading lamps, these are the only ones the partners of GreenPoma.com use in our homes.  The light is terrific, and the bulbs use 76% less energy than a tradtional, incandescent 3 way bulb.  Guaranteed for 7 years.

A bulb even Betty Draper would love.

One good thing about starting GreenPoma.com is that I never again have to feel guilty about trolling the internet looking for interesting stuff.  It’s not surfing, it’s Important Research.

Squirrel feet earrings aside, I am now totally addicted to looking at all the projects posted on the blog at Craft Magazine.

There are some seriously crafty people out there.

I came across these bulb vases and thought they’d be a nice addition to the underside of the large market unbrellas we have on the patio in the summer.  Summer?  What are summer?  Oh, right, the time of year when I don’t always have to wear a down vest inside the house.

Anyway Victoria Peterson gives an easy (and mostly power-tool free) tutorial on how to make these charming vases at craftershock.com.