Resources

One of the ways a company like ours can make a big impact is by leveraging our guests and associates to go green at home. Just imagine, if we can encourage just 10% of our visitors every Saturday for 1 year to change out one incandescent bulb in their home and replace it with a compact florescent light bulb then in one year we will have made an impact equivalent to taking 214 passenger vehicles off the road (see below how we figured this out). Below are some useful links and resources you can use at home to start making a difference. We also recommend you check out our blog to see if some of our green posts peak any of your interest.

Green Cleaning Products for the home

• Seventh Generation Cleaning Supplies
• Cleaning supplies you can make at home

Hip eco-friendly products

• Reusable Bags
• To-go Ware

Recycling

• Recycle Bank
• Earth 911

Find out what impact your family has on the environment

• My Footprint

Find out what your footprint is equivalent to (this is the tool we used to find that by having just 10% of our Saturday visitors stop using one incandescent bulb we could save over 2 million pounds of CO2 emission)

• Energy Calculator

Recommended Reading

• Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model
  By: Ray Anderson
• Hot, Flat, Crowded: Why we need a green revolution and how it can renew America
  By: Thomas L. Friedman
• The Self Sufficient Life and How To Live It
  By: John Seymour
• Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability
  By: Greg Horn
• Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
  By: Abigail R. Gehring
• Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
  By: Paul Hawkin
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
  By: Michael Pollan
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
  By: Barbara Kingsolver
• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
  By: Michael Pollan