About This Stamp
If you feel there’s not much one person can do to make a positive impact on the environment—just take a look at these Go Green stamps. They illustrate simple things we each can do every day. With only a few small changes to the way we live.
Out of milk? Walk or bike to the store. Repair that drippy faucet—the noise was driving you crazy, anyway. Switch to energy-efficient light bulbs. Put on a sweater instead of turning up the thermostat. Sun dry your sheets—they’ll smell wonderful!
Is it enough to make a difference? Absolutely. Recycling just one aluminum can reduces waste—and saves enough energy to run a computer for three hours. Multiply that by 10—or 200—cans. Simple insulation like caulking or weatherstripping pays for itself with reduced utility bills within one year. Properly inflating your car tires improves gas mileage by as much as three percent. You’re not just saving the environment, you’re saving—period. Suddenly small steps seem pretty big.
Best of all, once you’ve started thinking—and acting—green, you’ll feel proud that you’ve been part of a big change. Home just got greener. Thanks to you.
Go Green, a pane of 16 self-adhesive stamps, is the Postal Service’s social awareness issue for 2011. They are being issued as Forever® stamps, which are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate.
For his first stamp project, award-winning animator, filmmaker, and illustrator Eli Noyes worked with art director Derry Noyes to produce these colorful, playful stamps.
Stamp Art Director, Stamp Designer
Derry Noyes
For more than 40 years Derry Noyes has designed and provided art direction for close to 800 United States postage stamps and stamp products. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Hampshire College and a master of fine arts degree from Yale University.
Noyes worked as a graphics designer at Beveridge and Associates, a Washington, D.C., firm, until 1979 when she established her own design firm, Derry Noyes Graphics. Her clients have included museums, corporations, foundations, and architectural and educational institutions. Her work has been honored by American Illustration, the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, Communication Arts, Critique magazine, Graphis, Creativity International, and the Society of Illustrators.
Before becoming an art director for the U.S. Postal Service, she served as a member of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee from 1981 to 1983.
Noyes is a resident of Washington, D.C.