Our Supply Chain

Our priorities and promises:

  • UN Sustainable Development Goal 4. "Quality Education" with book and pencil symbols on a red background.

    Take our pedagogical responsibilities seriously.

  • UN Sustainable Development Goal 5. "Gender Equality" with a male/female symbol with an equal sign in the middle on orange background.

    Spotlight queer and trans* artists.

  • UN Sustainable Development Goal 7. "Affordable and clean energy" with a power logo within a sun symbol on yellow background.

    Choose suppliers who use renewable energy.

  • UN Sustainable Development Goal 12. "Responsible Consumption and Production" with an infinity sign on a light brown background.

    Keep our supply chain open, local, and certified.
Map of central Europe, with Germany and Austria in dark green, and the surrounding countries in gray with a thin border. Turquouise circles are on two cities in Germany, and one in Austria, showing Poler Embassy's supply chain.

Proudly made in Europe

We partner with local suppliers in Germany and Austria who share our commitment to finding the paths of least pollution.

Map by Free Vector Maps

Our Design Manifesto

Follow the campsite rule and "tell it like it is".

You're smart enough to decide what's "sustainable" and we'd rather show than tell. Each product's page gives its CO2 footprint. We have nothing to hide.

We also open-source our entire supply chain, below. We know how hard it is to design waste out of a product's supply chain, and we want other producers to benefit from what we've learned and who we recommend.

Circular design should not be a luxury.

Our products are priced to be as accessible as possible while respecting the value of our team's time and our costs. We're happy to pay higher unit costs to partners who work within planetary means and even happier to see people enjoy our decks.

Other small publishers and creators are not competitors, they're potential partners. 

There's room for all of us. Are you a fellow small business or creator making card games? Or are you based outside the EU, and looking to grow with a local publishing house? Please reach out, we'd love to collaborate with you.

Make the games we'll play in Queer Paradise.

We're here to uplift queer creators and use card games to tell our stories for ourselves and the world.

Cradle to Cradle (C2C)

They meet the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute’s Silver standards on material health, product circularity, clean air and climate protection, water and soil stewardship, and social fairness.

Greenprint / Print4Climate

CO2 is emitted from production of the paper, plates, and inks, the printing itself, and the delivery from our supplier in Austria to our warehouse in Berlin. Theyoffset 110% of these emissions via climate protection measures onsite and reforestation projects in the Global South.

The Austrian Ecolabel for Products

Our decks were made in an energy-plus building using healthy, residue-free ink that will completely and harmlessly compost at their eventual end-of-life. These practices have earned our printer theAustrian Federal Ministry of Environment’s Ecolabel.

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)

The paper comes from responsibly managed forests.

Green Dot

The Green Dot is one of the industrial waste collection systems we participate in, fulfilling our legal obligations as producers.

Watch our coloring books get printed:

Our coloring books are printed Cradle to Cradle ceritified by Gugler Kommunikationshaus in Melk, Austria. Each book gets printed, folded, cut, organised together, stapled, and finally boxed. An expert technician checks for quality and recalibrates as needed at every stage! We’re proud to print locally and choose partners who take this much care and attention to detail.

The footprint we offset by at least 100%

In the spirit of transparency and accessibility, below we approximate the years it takes a single tree to reabsorb the CO2 emitted from each product's production. We used data from Encon for the calculations.

Our suppliers offset at least 100% of these emissions through climate protection measures onsite, reforestation projects in the Global South, as well as ocean protection and reforestation projects via ClimatePartner.

Suggestions for improvement? 

"Open-source" also means listening to ideas and critiques. If you know how we can push our waste even lower - or better yet, if you offer zero-waste printing and packaging, please reach out! We'd love to hear from you.

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