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Comment on Isle Be Green Program by Jared Karnes

Jared Karnes — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:58:18 +0000

I am thrilled to see this greening effort in Isle of Wight County, and I commend everyone involved in it. However, as a potential future resident of the county breaking into the agricultural roots of the area with a natural farm, I find the first paragraph on this page rather ironic: “Plastic bags are damaging the crops we are spraying tons of chemicals on.”

Make no mistake, I absolutely believe that this program is 100% necessary, and again I am very happy to see it coming to fruition. However, I believe the backwards nature of the drive for it as expressed in the first paragraph shows the disconnect between commodity “farmers” and their surroundings. Hopefully someday we’ll get a “quit polluting our groundwater and using commodity crops to destroy the soil we could be actually feeding ourselves with” drive as well

I will spread the word about this initiative for sure, and thank you to Ringer/rg for their pro-bono work for this cause! The site is very clean and looks great.

Comment on 482,569.08 plastic bags and counting… by manish gupta

manish gupta — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:15:21 +0000

We are manufacturers and exporters of non organic and organic cotton, canvas, jute and string bags. Please let us know if we could help you with any of your requirements of reusable bags. Look forward to your kind response.

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Comment on Don’t throw away your Christmas Cards…send them to St. Jude’s! by Sarah Sheehan

Sarah Sheehan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:13:55 +0000

Thank you!

Thank you for posting this about our card program and for all of your support in sending us your cards…but also in PURCHASING our “new” recycled cards. All proceeds go right back to the ranch and caring for our amazing kids. Our kids also get paid for working in the card program and learn valuable business skills through our on-the-job management training program.

Thank you again for supporting St. Jude’s Ranch for Children!

All the best,

Sarah Sheehan
Director of Communications and Events

Comment on Isle Be Green Program by admin

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:00:05 +0000

Hi Sara!

Thanks so much for praising our efforts. We are very excited about this program and the opportunity to expand our recycling program at some point in the future to more things.

Thank you for your offer to help out! The best way to assist is to spread the word. The biggest challenge for us is getting the word out because our grant funds do not allow us to advertise, yet that is the best way to change consumer behavior. We’re always looking for new ideas, so please feel free to share them with us. We do have some activities coming up that you can certainly participate in if you’d like. I’ll contact you to discuss those!

Thanks,
Rachel

Comment on Contact Us by admin

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:52:20 +0000

Hi Jenny!
I have been researching and have had no luck finding a place locally to recycle old car seats. I spoke with a gentlemen from Colorado, where an extensive program is operated. He said that he would be happy to assist us in starting a program here. We are exploring the possibility of doing a “car seat recycle day” here for our residents. If anyone has any ideas or would like to help we’d certainly appreciate it. I’m sorry we don’t have anything in place at this time. Thank you for inquiring.
Thanks,
Rachel

Comment on Greenwashing: Avoiding Eco-Hype by Kayla

Kayla — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:43:43 +0000

how appalling that companies are engaging in this kind of behavior. still, there are common sense things we can do to lessen our impact on the environment–like driving less. http://www.newsy.com/videos/the_problem_of_greenwashing

Comment on Isle Be Green Program by Sara Garver

Sara Garver — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:29:38 +0000

Hello!

I also am a resident of the area and I am so glad to hear about this program. I have been researching programs all over, in college classes on sustainability and government planning and through internships and networking. This is exciting to see a localized program right here involved in greening the area and providing for a sustainable future. Never underestimate the power of action on a smaller scale!

Is there any way that I can become involved? I am very passionate about creating a sustainable future and I would love to be of service in any way I can.

Thanks so much and keep up the good work,

Sara Garver

Comment on Contact Us by Jenny Cothern

Jenny Cothern — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:37:34 +0000

I am wondering if there is a place in IOW to recycle old car seats. I looked online but only found places in Colorado, Maryland, and Oregon. Would you know anything aobut this for this county, and if nothing exists, do we just send the plastic seat to the same recycling place as our bottles and cans?

Comment on Go green with your dry cleaning garment bag! by Jennie

Jennie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:35:06 +0000

Thanks for writing about our reusable dry cleaning bags! We would love to invite your readers to share in our free bag offer! Learn more here http://www.thegreengarmento.com/BASE/SS/get-free-bags/
Keep up the good work and we’ll try to do the same:)
thank you
jennie