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 Special Earth Day Issue: April 22, 2009
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Please enjoy this special Earth Day edition of The Gist. Here, we get to the point about all things Green, including ideas and tips on how each of us tries to live a Greener life as well as some of our favorite examples of how retail is taking on the Green challenge. We’d love to hear your feedback; e-mail The Gist with suggestions or comments. We hope to hear from you soon.
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Philadelphia-based Anthropologie is all abuzz for Earth Day with a subject dear to our hearts: the plight of the honey bee and its relation to sustainable agriculture. Culture-current Anthropologie filled its windows this week with imaginative representations of hives, honeycombs, and habitats, done with the retailer’s signature use of unexpected materials.
This news resonated with one of our colleagues who had learned quite a bit about bees at a Sonoma Land Trust dinner last summer. The eye-opening presentation, “Will there be Honey Bees at Oak Hill Farm in the year 2035?” was presented by Serge Labesque, who maintains bee colonies in Sonoma County, California, including one at Oak Hill Farm.
Bees are in trouble (and that’s bad news for us). Our energetic pollinators and honey makers have declined in numbers at an alarming rate. From a high in 1948 of 6 million colonies, the number today hovers around 1.5 million. Why should we care? [More]
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| In Other Earth Day News... |
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Green by the Yard
with Susan Siewny, Director, Graphic Production |
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Susan, an enthusiastic reuser and recycler, can always be counted on for advice on “Going Green.” An advocate of buying local whenever possible, she is a shareholder in a Community Supported Agriculture program. “Buying local allows you to know where your food comes from and to support family farms and the local economy. [More] |
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Paper Trail
with Lynn Rosenbaum, Director, Retail Enviroments |
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The decision to implement a firm-wide recycling program was an easy one for Lynn Rosenbaum, Chute Gerdeman's Environments Director. “Honestly, everyone here was ready for it. I’d see people taking home stacks of magazines and newspapers at the end of the week to recycle because we didn’t have the capability..." [More] |
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Green Retail
with Gretchen Ardizzone, Strategic Resource Manager |
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Green was the new black. And with the economic downturn, several companies shifted the focus from going green to cost-saving efforts. But many retailers, restaurateurs, and manufacturers realized that going green and saving green are often one and the same. Be inspired by the likes of EVOS, Green Depot, Eataly, Uniqlo, Marks & Spencer, and Pepsi. [More] |
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Green Chuties |
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Learn how Chuties are contributing to make the earth a greener planet and get tips on Green ideas you want might to incorporate into your life. [More] | | | |
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