Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

Ask for a reuasable grocery bag from BCS

San Francisco has placed a ban on plastic grocery bags. A local home furnishing store charges ¢5 so you can pack all those trinkets in your car.

Having your own reusable grocery bag just makes sense these days.

E-Recycling

Hundreds of thousands of computers, monitors, televisions and other electronic items are replaced in California every year. This 'e-waste' contains valuable materials and can be hazardous if not disposed of properly. When you 'e-recycle' you're helping to protect our environment and create new jobs in California. To find where you can discard your old, unused, or broken electronics, simply fill out the form at this site which will direct you to the nearest disposal location.

Lenders Cultivate the Green Market

While energy-efficient mortgages have been available from many lenders for some time, they are receiving renewed attention. They allow borrowers to qualify for bigger loans because lenders permit the estimated savings on utility bills to be added to the borrower's qualifying income.

For example, energy-efficient improvements could save a homeowner $50 a month. The $600 extra a year could allow a person to borrow about $10,000 more on a 30-year mortgage, depending on the interest rate, says Mark Wolfe, executive director of the Energy Programs Consortium, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that helps coordinate state and federal energy policy. More on lenders and the green market.

Paper or Plastic?

Central to our campaign is an attempt to kill the demand for non-necessary plastics at the source, by encouraging the development and use of “alternatives” and reduction of packaging. We aim to transcend (rise above!) the knee-jerk acceptance of single-use plastic bottles or ubiquitous plastic shopping bags (or other “do-dad” plastic junk created for new, introduced “needs”) when better robust, reusable and sustainable options exist. More on the paper or plastic discussion.

This is a Public Service Announcement

This PSA (known as the 'Crying Indian Commercial') became the most widely seen PSA in the history of television. It has been estimated that the air time for this PSA, if paid for, would have cost well over half a billion dollars. The PSA was followed by the campaign's magazine ads featuring the crying Indian. It became a permanent feature of American commercial publishing. Year after year, Cody's tear-streaked face has shaped the American public's consciousness as no other ecological symbol ever has.

Simple Steps We Take as a Business

A/C kept above 75 degrees
Coffee grounds taken home for composting
Office lights on sensors
Reduce - Reuse - Recycle when possible
Re-use of one side used paper for incoming faxes, and as scrap paper
Re-cycle copier ink cartridges, and other large items, boxes etc. / space
Use of RELAY, a transaction management system, that cuts down on the amount of faxing and printing formerly required during an escrow
Used cell phone collection site
Use of filtered water system instead of bottled water