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Business Network News
August 3, 2006
Choice
Organic Teas Introduces New Technology
In an effort to further reduce their environmental
footprint, Choice Organic Teas
announced an innovative tea bagging machine that replaces the staples
with a knotted string.
In 1989, Choice chose to make tea bags without glue or heat-sealed polyfilaments. “The new knotted-string innovation continues our company’s efforts to produce the purest tea product, packaged with materials causing the least impact on our environment,” said Blake Rankin, president of Choice, “This new machine will prevent over 400 miles of staple wire from going into landfills.”
Choice manufactures their teabags with unbleached natural fiber filter paper.
Visit
www.choiceorganicteas.com »
Organic Bouquet Delivers Carbon-Neutral Flowers
The Climate Trust, a provider of carbon offset programs, and Organic
Bouquet,
the first organic floral company, have announced a partnership to
purchase carbon offsets to mitigate greenhouse gases generated from
shipping the flowers.
“This is the latest innovation adopted by Organic Bouquet in our effort to integrate environmental sustainability at every level of operations,” said Gerald Prolman, founder and CEO.
The Climate Trust’s Truck Stop Electrification Program, that
Organic Bouquet will participate in, will reduce wasteful diesel
emissions at truck stops where, each night, thousands of truckers
idle their engines to power heating, air conditioning and appliances.
The program will retrofit 275 docking stations at seven major truck
stops along 1-5 (CA) with “Shurepower” electrical outlets,
allowing truckers to power their rigs with electricity rather than
diesel fuel. Estimates are that 90,000 metric tons of CO2 will be
removed over the next 16 years and save truckers 10 millions of
fuel.
‘Transportation is one of the fastest growing contributors of global warming,” said Bjorn Fisher of Climate Trust, which aims to offer companies a viable way to reduce their fossil fuel footprints through programs such as reforestation, green building and clean-air transportation—that reduce the emission of GHG.
Gerald Prolman will talk about Organic Bouquet’s work as a keynote speaker at the Co-op America Green Business Conference November 7-10 in San Francisco.
Visit
www.organicbouquet.com »
Register
for the Green Business Conference at www.coopamerica.biz »
Candle 79 Featured on the Summer of Green Tour
Looking to have a green experience in the Big Apple? Visit Goggle.com/earth
and you will be escorted through a virtual tour that takes you into
the vegan restaurant Candle 79.
Owners and long-time CABN members, Bart Potenza and Joy Pierson’s
two famous restaurants have been popular destination points for
New Yorkers and visitors, where all things are green from what is
served to the tables that you set at.
On the web trip, they proudly point to the Co-op America Seal of Approval and their membership and commitment to sustainability.
Other Green Tours include Orlando, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas.
Start
your green tour at goggle.com/earth/green »
Call for Papers—Our Daily Bread:
What Does It REALLY Cost?
Deadline August 23
Sustainable Ventures
is seeking studies that best measures the true costs of a loaf of
bread. The winning study will receive $10,000 and provide a systemic
analytical framework to measure integrated social, environmental
and financial performance.
According to Theo Ferguson, Sustainable Ventures' Executive Director, “Sustainable frameworks that people can easily understand are not accessible to the public…this competition addresses the gap by inviting the best and brightest in academia, consultants, government and NGOs to create new solutions to this ongoing challenge. When consumers are able to make more informed decisions in the services they use and the products they buy, we can grow a sustainable world.”
The winning prize will be presented at the Social Investment Forum’s annual SRI in the Rockies Conference, on October 29.
Visit
www.sustainableventures.us »
Simple Living and the Rekindling of Public Life
Simple Living America announces their annual conference, “Sustainable Business, Local Community and the Common Good” which will feature actor activist, Ed Begley Jr. and Wanda Urbanska, from PBS’s television series, Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska.
The conference at Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat in Leavenworth, VA is November 3-5 and features over 20 speakers and workshops on simple living.
Visit
www.simplelivingamerica.org »