Calling all Green Retailers. You?ve got to love this!

May 28th, 2008

I love it when I open the paper in the morning and read something like ?What?s Big Green and Found All Over?

I love it when I open the paper in the morning and read something like ?What?s Big Green and Found All Over? that?s exactly the title of the lead article in the Business Section of The Arizona Republic yesterday Tuesday May 27th 2008 by Cathryn Creno. An accompanying article titled ?Chains sold on Green? also written by Cathryn Creno details how retailers embrace energy efficiency. The environment wins twice in one day. We must be making progress. Areas of focus within the article are Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design or LEED, the EPA?s Retail energy Star program, and the EPA?s retail Green Power Partnership list.

A couple of other certifications that retailers may want to pay attention too are Green Seal www.greenseal.org .Green Seal works with manufacturers, industry sectors, purchasing groups, and governments at all levels to “green” the production and purchasing chain. Green Seal utilizes a life-cycle approach, which means they evaluate a product or service beginning with material extraction, continuing with manufacturing and use, and ending with recycling and disposal. EcoLogo www.ecologo.org . is also worthy of consideration and is North America?s most widely recognized and respected certification of environmental leadership. By setting standards and certifying products in more than 120 categories, EcoLogo helps you identify, trust, buy, and sell environmentally preferable (?green?) goods and services. Both of these certifications are included in the SafeSourceIt? North American supplier database as one of our supplier certification standards

Personally and for Safesourcing I would like to offer congratulations to the following retailers. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Whole foods Market Inc., J.C. Penney Co. Inc., Kohl?s Corp., and Safeway Inc. You all serve as a wonderful example of leading the charge in what we all can do towards leaving a better world for our children and theirs.

I look forward to your comments.

Ron

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