We often take nature valuable products for granted such as clean water and timber. The questions is that how can we repay nature so we can continue to enjoy these benefits. While individuals like you and me are making efforts, big companies like Coca-Cola and Marriott are doing their parts as well. Coca-Cola has an expansive global program to protect and generate fresh water in unorthodox way. Marriott is thinking of a program that would help preserve forests in the Amazon.
Now the world’s coffee giant ventured into the world of ecosystem services with its longtime partner - Conservation International. Basically, they reward the coffee farmers who follows the best environmental and social practices so that Starbucks can help protect the land surrounding places where coffee is grown. You can read the entire press release here.
The following explains how the project works taken from CNN news:
Here’s how the project would work: Starbucks will finance Conservation International’s efforts to work with local partners and coffee growers to protect the landscapes around the coffee growing areas. The growers, on their own or in partnership with local governments, would agree to preserve forests as they are or to replant trees. They would then become eligible, in today’s world, to seek carbon credits from companies that are voluntarily offsetting their emissions. (Many companies now do so, among them Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500), Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) and News Corp. (NWS, Fortune 500))
Turning your room to green doesn’t always cost you more than thousand dollars. You can be even half way there by spending less than a hundred bucks. Thinking of buying eco friendly bedroom and living room pieces is a good start, but even before that, you can just start by getting a eco friendly wallpaper. Why not!! I guess most people do not like toxic fumes and the smell of paints as it can be dangerous and is not good for our health.
Well, I am not a salesperson of Shop4Wallpaper.com, but i really liked their new eco friendly wallpaper - solara, it just looks stunning. There are a lot of people that starts with wallpaper for renovation and innovative designs. Yon can do that as well and you will be surprised on what you can achieve with this eco friendly wall paper.
Do you know the fact that flip flop can be eco-friendly as well and do you know that one of the ottomans you own at home can be made by flip flops? When it comes to being eco-friendliness, sky is the limit if you can be creative and thoughtful. You probably make think that things that are made from flip flops can be ugly and out of fashion. To be honest, this is what i thought as well before i see this ottoman.
It is so colorful and looks like it could have come off of Star Trek and is just stunning to look at. If you think this is cheap, then you are wrong again! Retail price for this ottoman comes to about $315.
Although the oil price has spiked to all time high in 2008, there are still a lot people who would to travel and the effort made on consuming less energy and saving the earth will never end. You may never consider choosing an eco-friendly hotel before in your life, but you may some day in the future. This is why we want to promote the top 10 eco-friendly hotels in North America as we encourage you to at least think about them before traveling and you can make reservations in advance.
- The Orchard Garden Hotel
- 70 Park Avenue
- Gaia Napa
- Zion Lodge
- Hotel Triton
- Hilton
- Marriot
- Hotel Monaco
- Hotelito Desconocido
- Habitat Suites
