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In article <420gmt$7n6@agate.berkeley.edu|,
Marc Rumminger <mrum@pyrolab.ME.Berkeley.EDU| wrote:
|In article <41iop2$acg@agate.berkeley.edu>,
|Bryce Nesbitt <bryce@remarque.berkeley.edu> wrote:
|>
|>The Conservancy gets .5% of each purchase plus an unspecified yearly
|>contribution.  While small (only $50 if you spent $10,000 a year), it...
|>1-800-847-7378.
|
|   I had a MBNA "Save-the-Earth" type card for a few years.  It was like 
|the card described above and donated a portion of my expenditures to
|a group of charities.  When I signed up, I was hoping that it would 
|be a relatively low impact card with such features as:
|    - envelopes and monthly statements printed on paper 
|      with a high post-consumer waste content
|    - envelopes without plastic or glassine windows
|    - no junk enclosures 
|    - no random mailings 
|...Isn't there a credit card that does more than just donate a little bit
|of money ?  Does a card exist that does minimal environmental damage ?

Try Working Assets.  They repackage Sprint & discount phone service,
but send out bills on recycled paper and donate at least 1% of
gross to environmental causes [1-800-788-0898].  Of course this ends
up with more paper for me, since my phone company would otherwise
print the calls double-sided on my regularbill.

They also offer a credit card, serviced by "Fleet Bank".  I have
not tried this card.  [800-933-5764].  The card is no annual fee,
the gold flavor offers CDW coverage for rental cars.  The interest
rate is prime + 10% after the initial discount nonsense.  Note
that the regular fleet card does NOT use recycled paper and comes
in plastic window envelopes.