We Can Save Millions of Trees...

... By using cloth napkins at home instead of paper napkins. One stat (from the Natural Resources Defense Council) is that if every American household replaced one package of 250-count virgin fiber napkins with cloth napkins, 1 million trees would be saved from the chopping block. For more info, here is TreeHugger's analysis and a run-down of green/greener options from Care2.

At home, we have been using cloth napkins for a few years and now it feels totally normal. We have ~ 20 napkins that we use for a few meals and then just throw them in the laundry. Less garbage, fewer trees cut down, and no hassle on our part.

We were recently looking to buy some cloth napkins for Grandma, and finding super eco-friendly cloth napkin options (i.e. bamboo, hemp, organic cotton or otherwise sustainable fabric) is not that easy. We eventually narrowed it down to these choices:

• Litter Free Lunch: organic cotton cloth napkins
• World of Good: Bali cotton napkins made in Indoneisa through Fair Trade Winds