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Our plantable cards and seed gifts are aimed at providing people not only with an interesting and novel gift, but also to encourage people to grow specially selected plants and trees to encourage bio-diversity, grow food at home and help offset carbon footprints. We offer flowers, edible plants and even trees! So something as simple as a gift tag can help with carbon offsetting!</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> With the current Credit Crunch, our products offer a great small gift that GROWS into a BIG, LONG LASTING GIFT! Fantastic value for money and a great way to show you care without breaking the bank!</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#CCFF99 HEIGHT= 44 WIDTH="839"><div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#003300" FACE="Andalus" ><B>Brief instructions are provided with our products. To help you choose your seed type we have provided some information and interesting facts about our plants </B></FONT><A HREF="plant_information.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Plant Information"><FONT COLOR="#006633"><B>HERE</B></FONT></A><B>.</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 1 WIDTH="839"><div> <B> <img src="HTMLobj-228/aniGif.gif" alt="Flower Bullet" border="0" align="bottom" width="39" height="36">  Growing Greetings Ltd wins a Sustainable Small Business award!</B></div> <div> <B>We are very proud to announce that Growing Greetings Ltd was chosen from among the finalists to win the ARENA Network small business award from Sustainable Swansea!</B> </div> <bR> <div> The Sustainable Swansea Awards showcases what many local organisations and individuals are doing to make a difference. This year, twenty-one projects were short-listed in seven different categories and the winners were announced at a prestigious Mayoral ceremony in the Brangwyn Hall on 22nd July. The event was presided over by the Evening Post’s editor, Spencer Feeney, and there was a special address by BBC presenter Jason Mohammad who explained his understanding of sustainability with reference to his experiences when reporting at the World Summit in Johannesburg in 2002. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="01ecfca0.jpg" border=0 width="207" height="202" ALT="Dr. Marshall winning the 2008 ARENA Network sustainable small business award" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="3" VSPACE="0">The seven award categories were large and small businesses, large and small community projects, schools, public agencies and individual champions. A judging panel of fourteen experts in the fields of environment, education, development and community regeneration deliberated over 45 applications and chose three finalists for each category to attend the awards ceremony. “The standard for this year’s awards was incredibly high and the task faced by the judges was not an easy one to say the least. There was much excitement amongst the applicants and others involved in the scheme but the final winners were kept secret until the awards evening when they were revealed ‘Oscar-style’ by each category sponsor.” explained one of the coordinators, Philip McDonnell.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 363 WIDTH="267"><div> Growing Greetings Ltd uses recycled and biodegradable components for its seed paper living gifts and recycles its waste on site. Not only are the living cards eco-friendly, we also re-use grey water on our plant test beds and produce organic fertiliser from our flock of ducks to make our practices eco-friendly too! We use only organic or eco-friendly cleaning products in our premises and even our light bulbs are all energy saving ones! After thorough inspection of the premises and production methods, the judges agreed that Growing Greetings Ltd makes significant efforts towards sustainability in all areas!</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF WIDTH="567"><div> <IMG SRC="02047e70.jpg" border=0 width="327" height="231" ALT="Dr. Marshall winning the 2008 ARENA Network sustainable small business award" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> BBC News reader Jason Mohammed co-hosted</div> <div> the 2008 awards.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="02a6e510.jpg" border=0 width="110" height="81" ALT="ARENA Network logo" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="02887510.jpg" border=0 width="135" height="81" ALT="Environment Agency Logo" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="02456510.jpg" border=0 width="86" height="81" ALT="Sustainable Swansea logo" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 40 WIDTH="839"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="40" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="839" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#CCFF99 HEIGHT= 413 WIDTH="839"><div> <B> <img src="HTMLobj-229/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="39" height="36">  Growing Greetings is supported by a 2008 Social Entrepreneur Award from UnLtd</B></div> <div> <B>Thanks to the UnLtd foundation for Social Entrepreneurs Growing Greetings has financial support for its various environmental and social projects.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="02b6f2a0.jpg" border=0 width="111" height="42" ALT="UnLtd Logo" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="3" VSPACE="3">UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs - people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. UnLtd's social entrepreneurs are real visionaries however, that doesn't mean they necessarily develop complex, global solutions to large-scale issues; often, social entrepreneurs simply take a problem in their own community and make a commitment to tackle it. This may lead to something bigger, or it may not; what makes a true social entrepreneur is that they have the will to make a difference, the vision to know how to go about it and the determination to make that vision happen. UnLtd Award Winners come from a hugely diverse range of backgrounds, ethnicities and locations. They all have different reasons for wanting to change the world, and different ideas about how to go about it. However, some of the characteristics an Award Winner demonstrates includes:</div> <div> <IMG SRC="02eb87c0.jpg" border=0 width="184" height="124" ALT="Millennium Awards logo" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="2" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>     * Vision</div> <div>     * Determination</div> <div>     * Passion</div> <div>     * Self motivation and self belief</div> <div>     * Flexibility</div> <div>     * Resourcefulness</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCFF99 HEIGHT= 542 WIDTH="267"><div> Dr. H. Marshall (Botanist & Founder of Growing Greetings Ltd) has received both a Level 1 and Level 2 UnLtd Millennium award for her various visionary projects which aim to make ethnobotany (the various uses of plants e.g. food, medicines) a viable means of developing sustainability both in the UK and developing countries. Growing Greetings Ltd is proud to be instrumental in setting up projects such as Home Grown Organic (which aims to encourage UK residents to grow more of their own food) and Organic Perspectives (a food plant seed bank in Uganda allowing poorer farmers access to vital seed supplies). Growing Greetings is also proud to announce its new initiative in association with MEWN (Minority Ethnic Women's Network) and W4R (Women For Resources) to provide food plant seeds which will allow women in Liberia and Kenya a means of obtaining a balanced diet to decrease mortality during childbirth and other problems associated with malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCFF99 WIDTH="567"><bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0354cda0.jpg" border=0 width="332" height="474" ALT="Dr. Marshall with 2007 UnLtd award" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 40 WIDTH="839"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="40" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="839" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 52 WIDTH="839"><div> <B> <img src="HTMLobj-230/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="39" height="36">  </B><B>Useful Links: </B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 1001 WIDTH="839"><div> <B>Our favorite Sites:</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1b5b2860.jpg" border=0 width="178" height="134" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><A HREF="http://www.farmfountain.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.farmfountain.com/"><FONT COLOR="#003300"><B>Farm Fountain</B></FONT></A> - Eco Art at it's finest. 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