How green are you really?
Excuse my cynicism, but I'm getting a little tired of everybody bragging about how green they are becoming, including businesses. It's all for show. I've gone in to countless shops and offices where the air conditioning has been set at Siberia. People who buy reusable Publix bags drive gas-guzzling SUVs. And fashionistas who wear green clothes landscape their massive yards with hundreds of lights all night.
If you're going to talk the talk -- as they used to say when I was a kid -- then you have to walk the walk, too.
If you're going to talk the talk -- as they used to say when I was a kid -- then you have to walk the walk, too.
posted by Ana Veciana-Suarez at 8:18 AM
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True.
Listen, being "green" is the latest cool thing to be -- whether we understand what it means or not.
All the tv news shows are doing news stories about being "green" -in my honest opinion, it is all hype.
We need to be serious and responsible and make REAL changes in the way we manage resources. Otherwise, what will our kids inherit?
Not much.
When we built our business initially it was not to be "green," in fact when we set it up we had no ideal we already were green. We agree "Eco-friendly" is a catch phrase being tossed around like the word love, but we do admit to this... Our business, be it fashionable now or a fad 10 years from now is a step in the right direction. Not all solutions are the right ones but any solution that changes the way people consume non-renewable resources is a step in the right direction. If Americans were to switch just 10% of their total mileage to scooters, www.growverde.com they would consume 14 - 18 million gallons less fuel per day and carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced by 324 million pounds per day as well. (Source ICR survey, May 2006) So without going into a diatribe, I will say this. Using a Vespashare or CarSharing service in your area makes financial sense. It just happens to be good for the environment!
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