GOING GREEN GETS EASIER ALL THE TIME
Tuesday is the one day each week where you can skip into any entertainment retailer and grab the newest releases in movies and music. Being that HMV is supremely convenient for me, it’s where I go. Today, as I paid for my purchases, I discovered that shopping at HMV is going to be something even easier for me to do; not for convenience sake, but in terms of shopping with a clean, green conscience.
“Oh! And check this out…our bags are now biodegradable!” the eager young salesman pointed out.
HMV has swapped their trademark shiny black and pink bags for white transparent ones with the same logo splashed across the side. The bags are made with EPI Environmental Technology:
“Once discarded in landfill sites, the exposure to sunlight, oxygen and heat will convert the plastic in this bag into water, carbon dioxide, mineral salt and biomass. Like a fallen leaf it will disappear over time and leave no harmful residue in the soil.”
I’m applauding yet another retailer making a small effort in the big picture.
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While I’ve got you thinking green (and shopping, for that matter), I want to tell you about a brand new website that just launched. ClickGreener is something I heard about through the grapevine (the grapevine being Bethany), and it seems as though it arrived just in time for Christmas.
Photo courtesy of CarleyJane on Flickr
With this season and all its joys comes countless hours of dragging one’s feet through overcrowded shopping malls in search of awe-inspiring gifts for friends and family. ClickGreener endeavors to avoid this annual headache by presenting an online shopping portal - linked full of names and companies that you know and love - with the goal of making shopping greener.
“ClickGreener has carefully chosen its non-profit partners to ensure that every dollar generated from your purchase helps the environment as much as possible
Each partner uses the money generated from your purchase to focus on a specific area of environmental impact. Together, these four areas form a holistic approach to making this a greener world.”
Consider ClickGreener as a smart alternative to your Christmas shopping for 2007.
(And hold your breath because there’s an equally cool - if not cooler - website that I’m going to share with you all in the coming days that’s much more Vancouver specific, so stay tuned!)
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The weeks before Christmas are going by faster and faster with activities, parties, shopping, preparations, baking and all things that get me excited happening on a near-daily basis. Mt. Washington Alpine Resort is set to open on December 6th - that’s just two days away! I can already smell the snow, pine and clean air. You and me, Becky - we’re on.
Tomorrow, as you all know, is Wednesday. With Wednesday comes my weekly delve into human sexuality and I am quite sure that most of you are going to have an opinion on tomorrow’s post, one way or the other.
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If every company does one thing to change the way they do business into something eco-friendly…imagine the possibilities.
we have those bags! im always go on about them to customers who forget their bags.
ps. so funny tonight adam forgot the cloth bags and came back holding all the groceries in his hands and arms and had the bananas in his pants pockets he walked in saying he’d just learned a lesson
you can edit that last one if you want….
oops.
but can you eat them?
I’m excited for 2 reasons, not only are the biodegradable, but they won’t get that stupid black stuff all over your hands! I hated those bags.