Syntek Global Distributor Woody Woodcock and featured sponsor shares with us his commentary on the increasing price of gasoline. What a helpless feeling it is. As gas dependent as we all are the price increases are really hit many hard. One thing folks can do is add a high quality additive that makes a difference not only for your mileage, for the engine of your car or equipment. It also saves you money at the pump.
A scholarship organization knows as Friends Of The Arts is hosting a Postcard Art event this evening. Hundreds of artists submit postcard size pieces in support of students of the arts in need. Artists range from very high profile, to artists like me who are just starting out to college student art. I attended the opening reception a few days ago and just adored the 4X6 format. I wish the event tremendous success!
These are the two pieces I submitted:
Photographer: Karen Hanrahan ~ scapes: stills, nature, nudes etc
In the days of yore when all I used were chemical bathroom cleaners and typical soaps and shampoo’s from the grocery store I constantly battled with ring around the bathtub, slimy tile walls and an absolutely discusting shower curtain.
How about you ?
I felt it was a never ending battle. I also struggled with how ill I felt after I cleaned because of noxious fumes from the typical cleaning products I was using. Not to mention how positively itchy I felt after using petroleum derived skin care.
I seriously itched a good portion of my life.
Being able to clean green of course altered the chemical portion of that completely.
Three non-toxic, biodegradable products
An all purpose cleaning product
and a scouring paste.
The most remarkable detail of using the above powerful green trio is that I could spray, scour, sanitize and mix all of these things together, without fear of a chemical melt down.
We all know that combining bleach and ammonia and other regular cleaning products is very very dangerous.
Mixing bleach and ammonia releases a gas so deadly it was once used as a chemical warfare agent. It can overwhelm a victim in less than a minute.
Yikes!!
After I was introduced to green cleaning products I was then introduced to a non-soap bar for everyday bathing.
A positively delicious oatmeal, vitamin e, wheat germ oil product that was such a shift from the squeaky clean Ivory soap I grew up with, or the Irish spring soap my husband seemed to enjoy ( gosh I hated the smell of that stuff)
I could hardly believe the difference this product made in my life.
My new non-soap bar was lovely smelling, ph balanced, and non-stripping to the skin. It actually protects the skins acid mantle versus destroying it. I had horrific dry skin from using every day skin care products that were harsh, not ph balanced and derived from tallow ( animal fat ) and lye (the same thing that oven cleaners are made up of ).
I have introduced hundreds of people to this non-soap bar and they love it as much as I.
Here’s the deal
Soap products make soap scum – no other way to say it, soap leaves a horrific trail.
Use soap products you will have soap scum.
Use non-soap products - bar, body wash, moisturizers, shampoo’s and conditioners derived from plants and guess what?
No more soap scum. Not to mention no more dry skin.
No soap scum and you almost have a self cleaning bathtub.
I have not had a bathtub ring since 1993!
Come over anytime and look!
It’s beeee-aaa-uuu-tiful.
With regard to the discusting plastic liners for your shower? Forget those.
I stopped using them ions ago.
I buy an all fabric cotton shower curtain – actually I buy 2 and wash one with the towels!
No more plastic touching my body, not more outgassing and no more mold.
vintage claw tub and mirror flickr image credit
How do you celebrate Earth Day?
If you’re not cleaning green – what’s stopping you?
Whenever I take a road trip and about two additional times a year I offset my personal carbon by planting trees!!
This is the carbon calculator that I use
It looks at your emission sources…
things like electricity and natural gas.
It can look at your annual usage personally or for your entire family
It looks at your household waste
and other things like — are you using lawn equipment?
Finally, it looks at your mobility – are you driving a car, ever ride a train, have plane travel or even if you ride a taxi??
All these activities have a carbon footprint and can be offset simply by planting more trees!
Do the companies you purchase from, especially companies that tout their greenness, have a Chief Sustainability Officer?
What’s that?
A Chief Sustainability Officer is a CSO.
My company has one!!
Why do corporations have CSO’s?
Because they are up to stuff sustainably.
As a matter of fact our company was the very first in the world to achieve climate nuetral certification.
The very first in the entire world! How impressive!
Jil Zilligen, whom I was in touch with in 2010 is our CSO, and she is also very impressive!
Jil Zilligen has more than twenty years of experience creating and implementing sustainability, corporate responsibility, and education programs in both the for-profit and the social change sectors. ( Twenty Years!!! ) She is Chief Sustainability Officer at our company, where she is responsible for developing and implementing corporate social responsibility and sustainability strategies and partnerships.
Prior, Ms. Zilligen was Chief Sustainability Officer at Nau, Inc., where she helped build a brand, product line and customer experience that minimized negative environmental impacts, maximized equity for all, and set new benchmarks for sustainability, corporate responsibility, and philanthropy. Ms. Zilligen was also founding Executive Director of 1% For the Planet as well as Vice President of Environmental Initiatives at Patagonia, Inc., where she spent nine years developing and overseeing key programs that defined the values and corporate culture of the company.
Ms. Zilligen was named one of 25 Creative Visionaries by Time Magazine in 2007. She was an inaugural Catto Fellow with The Aspen Institute (2007-2009), an inaugural fellow in the National Committee on US China Relations’ Young Leaders Forum (2002-2004), and has served on numerous boards including the Conservation Alliance.
Nice listings of our company in the news regarding our Climate Neutral Certification
We are listed with the organization Climate Counts - see what other companies take on their sustainabilty!
We have a long history of environmental achievements!
Who would you like to purchase responsibly from?
