What does “green” mean?

“Going Green” is a social movement to promote environmental health or resource conservation. It’s about leading a lifestyle that does as little damage as possible to the planet and its inhabitants.

 Why? Right now the Earth’s resources are being depleted faster than they can be replenished. This means we need to take positive steps to protect these resources and you can start today!

We have selected products with one or more of the following qualities that include: energy efficiency, sustainability, reduced toxicity, recycled products, and manufacturing methods that are overall less wasteful than mainstream products. We don’t have the answer on how to save the world, but everyone can start with small steps and we will see the difference.

What are we doing?

American Consumption:

Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24% of the world's energy.

On average, one American consumes as much energy as:

• 2 Japanese
• 6 Mexicans
• 13 Chinese
• 31 Indians
• 128 Bangladeshis
• 307 Tanzanians
• 370 Ethiopians

Americans eat 815 billion calories of food each day - that's roughly 200 billion more than needed - enough to feed 80 million people.

There are more shopping malls than high schools.

Eighty percent of the corn grown and 95% of the oats are fed to livestock.

The average individual daily consumption of water is 159 gallons, while more than half the world's population lives on 25 gallons.

Americans throw out 200,000 tons of edible food daily.

The average American generates 52 tons of garbage by age 75.