Today's Green Report

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Rhonda

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NBC has been pushing the entire week of "going green" and on this morning's show, one of the news lines was "going green may be too expensive for consumers at this time".
The report went on to state that organic and green merchandise was pricey (yes we know that, tag on "green" and the price rises) and that consumers have shown a downward purchase trend on organics and green merchandise this past month. Hmm, amazing, prices rise (price of oil doesn't really affect green or organic does it?...petroleum products in "green items"? That's an oxymoron)......and consumers purchase less. Point being in the report that those organic and green consumers are leaning toward lower priced items such as store brands as alternatives to the higher priced wanna be products.
****One thing I didn't understand this entire week on NBC and also on HGTV Going Green Week, is that they kept saying no paper, it kills trees? No wood, it kills trees? Hmmm, I live in a paper product producing, wooded state. Our mills here replant and maintain replanting and reharvesting operations....renewable - trees!!****
We have plots where pine is reharvested after 15-17 years....
 
going green is more than just replanting trees, which is good I might add, don't want to make anyone mad.
But there are simple ways to "green" yourself up.

personally, my husband and i stopped buying little bottles of water by the case loads. we bought our own bags to bring to the store for grocery shopping. we recycle everything we are able to. we changed every light bulb in our house to the little swirly kind (i don't know what they are called). any new appliances we buy ( such as our computer) has the energystar logo on it. when we water the lawn it's not during the middle of the day. and so on.

professionally, amy, dave and i want the shop to have nice quality products. we do have a few things that are imported, a line of perfume, bath and body, and home fragrances from France, for instance. but most of the stuff we carry in the store is produced or grown in Colorado. including some of our (but not all of) our candles, gourmet food items, high end glass, flowers, etc. even our jewelry lines are created either in the four corners area or in colorado.

we even buy renewable energy (electricity) for the store.

all of us employees along with amy and dave even went in together to get a summers worth of produce for us to eat from a local farm. this is the first year we did it, and we'll see how it goes, but it doesn't hurt to try for the amount of produce the farm says we will be getting.

anyway, pretty much what i'm saying is we are all (at Schluter Floral) trying to reduce our carbon footprint. I think we have a good start. :)
 
shannonlovesflowers said:
going green is more than just replanting trees, which is good I might add, don't want to make anyone mad.
But there are simple ways to "green" yourself up.

anyway, pretty much what i'm saying is we are all (at Schluter Floral) trying to reduce our carbon footprint. I think we have a good start. :)
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And that's all any of us need to do. It doesn't have to be complicated. If we each make a change in our way of buying and recycling and useage of power, a difference will be felt.

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Victoria said:
And that's all any of us need to do. It doesn't have to be complicated. If we each make a change in our way of buying and recycling and useage of power, a difference will be felt...
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Totally agree! A little effort by all of us will go a long way. Lately I'm having a real problem with oasis foam. Just creates an inner conflict for me. I steer customers away from it whenever possible.
 
YAY VICTORIA!! YAY REWOLF!!

We used to go through tons of floral foam. we try to use as much glass as possible now
and we encourage our customers to recycle them by returning them!!
 
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