Monthly MailingSubscribe by the 10th to receive that month’s envelope • Club mailings ship on the 15th
You Belong to This Place
A Love Letter from the Great Lakes. Delivered Monthly.
Original Great Lakes art. A real story about this place. A Postcard from a Friend. Stickers. A surprise. Every month.
And every membership helps defend the Great Lakes Basin.
$12/month. One envelope. Made here. Worth opening.
Cancel anytime • No contracts • Automatic monthly renewal
Real Club Pieces
Real Club pieces — each month brings a new collection
01Great Lakes Story
02Original Art
03Postcard from a Friend
04Curated Stickers
05Monthly Surprises
What Comes in Your Monthly Mailing?
Inside Your Monthly Envelope.
Every month brings a new collection inspired by the Great Lakes Basin. The featured art, story, postcard, curated stickers, and surprise change from month to month, but these are the pieces you can expect inside your envelope.
Real Club pieces shown • Designs and surprises change monthly
01
A Story About This Place
A Great Lakes Basin story about the people, places, wildlife, history, or natural wonder that makes this region unlike anywhere else.
FrontBack
02
Original Great Lakes Basin Art
A 4×6 piece created by a Great Lakes Basin artist, with the artist’s bio on the back. Made by someone who knows this place because they live here, too.
FrontBack
03
Postcard from a Friend
Keep it, or send it. Each postcard pairs a Great Lakes Basin image or regional artwork with a little love, encouragement, or healing meant to be passed on.
04
Curated Stickers
Curated Great Lakes Basin stickers inspired by this place and created to go wherever you do. Water bottle, laptop, car, journal—carry a little piece of the Basin with you.
Coloring PageBookmark FrontBookmark Back
05
Monthly Surprises
Something extra, and something different. A bookmark, coloring page, small paper goodie, or another Great Lakes Basin surprise. The details change monthly because opening your envelope should still feel like opening a gift.
Your mailbox could use something better than bills.
A little beauty. A little Great Lakes. A little reason to look forward to the mail.
This is physical, tactile, keep-it-on-your-desk mail. No feed. No algorithm. No endless scroll. Just something made with intention arriving at your door.
02
Great Lakes Artists, Not Mass Production
The art inside the Club comes from creators who live and work throughout the Great Lakes Basin. Your envelope helps put regional creative work into more hands.
03
Your Membership Helps Defend This Place
The Club was built to create connection and help defend the place we belong to. Every monthly mailing helps us defend the lakes, rivers, wetlands, and watersheds of the Great Lakes Basin.
100%
of profits support our Rights of the Lakes Great Lakes Basin Initiative
Your mailing helps us defend the Great Lakes.
Forty million people depend on this water. Every Club mailing helps us defend the Great Lakes Basin through our Rights of the Lakes Great Lakes Basin Initiative—work to advance legal standing for the lakes, rivers, and watersheds of this region, and standing in court for the people who depend on them.
Every Friends of the Lakes Club mailing features work created by artists who live, work, and find inspiration throughout the Great Lakes Basin. Painting, photography, illustration, mixed media, and more—made by people who know this place from the inside.
Why we deliberately chose physical mail instead of another digital subscription
We live in a world that treats “digital” as automatically low-impact. We don’t. Data centers carry a real water, energy, air, land, and community footprint, including here in the Great Lakes Basin.
So we made a deliberate choice: send something physical that is designed to be kept—the art, postcard, stickers, story, and monthly surprises—not disposable filler.
We do our best to print on recycled post-consumer waste paper, bamboo, hemp, and other tree-free or lower-impact alternatives. When conventional paper is used, we work to offset that impact through tree planting. Everything inside the envelope is meant to have a reason for existing.
Join the Friends of the Lakes Club
You Belong to This Place.
Let a piece of the Great Lakes Basin show up in your mailbox every month—and help build the community that refuses to treat this water, this land, or the people who depend on it as disposable.
Cancel anytime • No contracts • 100% of profits help defend the Great Lakes Basin
Mailing Schedule
Club envelopes mail on the 15th of each month. Subscribe between the 1st and 10th to receive that month’s mailing. Subscribe after the 10th and your first envelope begins the following month. Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled.
