Natural and Sustainable

• Aveda: This company purchases organic ingredients and practices to reduce waste and extend the life cycle of the packaging.

• Benjamin Moore: This company came up with the low-VOC line that helps cut waste and require less waste than normal conventional paints.

• Clif Bar: They offset emission and recycle all of their office paper. They have even come up with the “2 Mile Challenge” to get the visitors to their website to ride their bikes more.

• Fairmont Hotels & Resorts: They have retrofitted more than 50 venues with energy-efficient bulbs and low-water toilets.

• The Home Depot: They sell FSC wood than any other retailer in the U.S. They also help customers buy better environmentally sound products.

• Method: They product biodegradable, chemical-free cleaning agents to help offset CO2 emissions.

• Nike: They are restricting PVCs and other tonics in their footwear and incorporating more organic cotton and ever recycling their old shoes into basketball courts and tracks around the world.

• Origins: They have gone nontoxic, and offer a great organic line that even prints all the material on recycled paper with soy-based inks and the stores in the United States are wind powered.

• Shaw: This carpet-maker takes your old carpet and makes it into new carpet for your home.

• Timberland: Their nutritional label breaks down the company’s impact on the environment.

• Virgin: The owner Sir Richard Branson has committed $3 billion in the fight against global warming in hopes they will be reinvested into renewable energy.

• Wal-Mart: They are the biggest purchaser of organic cotton already and in addition they are reducing the solid waste within the company by 25%.

• Whole Foods: They offer the best selection of organic and locally grown foods choices and offer discounts to customers that bring in their own shopping bags.

*Natural and Sustainable Living Tip: Glossary of what some “green” words mean:
1. Carbon Credit: The process of reducing carbon emissions by “offsetting”. An example is planting a tree to make up for a flight you took that week or that year even.

3. Green: Having a positive environmental objective.