2009 Ogden Marathon Fun & Fitness Expo

Thanks to all who came out and supported the 2009 Ogden Marathon Fun & Fitness Expo. Green The World along with Local's Have More Fun Shared a booth. Local's are a company out of Park City, Utah and have a line of eco-friendly t-shirts promoting all Utah local activities while giving 1% back. The weather was in the 80's and it was a perfect day to bring the family out and help celebrate the Marathon. Live music, give-aways, food, local and national vendors, all helped celebrate this wonderful event. Thanks to all my customers who came out and helped Green The World and Ogden.

Ten products you should ban from your home forever!

You would never cross the street without looking both ways, walk alone down a dark alley alone at 3am, or tell your child to accept rides from strangers. So why let hazardous, toxic, and even carcinogenic chemicals into your home everyday? Below is a list of ten products you should ban from your home - forever -
1. Non-Stick Cookware. The coating that makes Teflon pans non-stick is polytetrafluoroethylene, or PTFE for short. When PTFE heats up, it releases toxic gasses that have been linked to cancer, organ failure, reproductive damage, and other harmful health effects.
2. Plastic bottles. by now you've heard of danger of BPA in those ubiquitous neon water bottles. BPA mimics the effects of hormones that harm your endocrine system. Single use plastic bottles are even worse for leaching chemicals, especially when you add the heat of the sun.
3. Conventional Cleaning Supplies. These routinely make the top ten lists of worst household offenders. They contain toxic chemicals that negatively effect every system in the body. All purpose cleaners often contain ammonia, a strong irritant that can cause liver and kidney damage. Bleach is a powerful oxidizer, which can burn the skin and eyes.
4. Chemical Insecticides and Herbicides. Since the purpose of thee products is to kill pests, you can bet that many of them have ingredients in them that are also harmful to humans. For example, the active ingredient in Round-Up - is known to cause kidney damage and reproductive harm in mice.
5. Antibacterial Products. The widespread use of antibacterials has been shown to contribute to new strains of antibiotic-resistant-"super bugs". The Center for Disease Control says that antibacterials may also interfere with immune system development in children.
6. Chemical Fertilizers. These are notorious for causing damage to our water supply and are a known major contributor to algal blooms. Whenever it rains or a lawn is watered, the runoff goes straight into storm-drains and untreated water is dumped into rivers, streams, and the ocean causing an imbalance in our water ecosystems.
7. More Bulb for your Buck. A Compact Fluorescent (CFL) bulb uses just a fraction of the energy regular light bulb uses. When your current bulbs burn out, swap them with CFLs.
8. Air Fresheners. Just like cleaning supplies, these are incredibly toxic and can aggravate respiratory problems like asthma.
9. Flame Retardants. The flame retardant used in mattresses, in known to accumulate in blood, breast milk and fatty tissues. The chemical is linked to liver, thyroid, and neuro-development toxicity.
10. PLASTIC SHOPPING BAGS. Remember: Like diamonds, plastics are forever. Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? It's a giant mass of plastic twice the size of Texas that's floating 1000 miles off the coast of California.

2009 Ogden Marathon Fun & Fitness Expo

2009 Ogden Marathon Fun & Fitness Expo

Friday May 15th @ 10am to 8 pm

Union Station on Historical 25th Street.

Please bring the whole family to this fun event. There will be live music, give-aways, food, activities for the whole family and much more.

Green The World will have a booth so please stop by and say hi.

The Marathon starts Saturday at 7am and will finish up at the 25th Street Park.

Please come out and help celebrate and support Ogden! :)

KSL Studio 5

Hi all, check out the attached Video. Green The World was featured on Earth Day on KSL Studio 5 as one of 3 Green Utah Companies. Bubble and Bee Organics is also featured and you can find there products at my store. Let me know what you think. Thanks


http://studio5.ksl.com/?nid=71&sid=6231113

River Clean Up & Simple Shoe Sale

Thanks to all who supported Green The World and helped with the Ogden River Clean Up. It was cold and wet with everything from rain, sleet, hail, and sun but we had the biggest crowd yet. Special thanks to my customers, Katey, Jill, Hazen, Bryton, Randy, from Simple Shoe, Sarah, Tab, and Fawne and her family, you guys were wonderful. The Ogden River looks great and please take your family along the 9 mile open trails to appreciate all it has to offer.

Special thanks to those customers who later joined me at my store for the Simple Shoe Sale. Simple rep, Randy Worster, was on hand with the full Spring and Fall Shoe line. Congratulations to Sarah Shupe, Lim Marie, SueAnn Thomas, Trevior Runions, Kyle Rasmussen, and Charlene Sorensen who all won a FREE pair of shoes.

Both events were a huge success and helped celebrate Earth Day.

Earth Day Celebration

Hi all, according to legend, the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. Since that date nearly 40 years ago, people across the country have claimed one day as theirs to celebrate the earth and make endless promises to protect it. I hope you all will do the same. Earth day is April 22nd, please plan on doing one thing to help protect the Earth. Green The World is helping by supporting the Ogden River Annual Clean Up, please help us if you can. Thanks...

Sponsored by the Ogden Group of the Sierra Club in
partnership with the Ogden Canyon Club, the Utah Rivers Council,
and Green the World. Join with us from -
9am-noon Saturday
April 25th
3 R D A N N U A L Ogden River
Clean Up
MEET at the BIG D SPORTS PAVILION on the OGDEN RIVER
PARKWAY. (Located just west of the Dinosaur Park parking lot.)
We’ll work until noon and then enjoy a provided lunch at The Oaks
where there will also be door prizes drawings! Bring gloves and wear sturdy
shoes or boots along with weather appropriate clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty.
Contact Ranee Johnson at 801.985.0158 for more information.

Hi all, sorry I have not blogged for a while, I have been busy setting up E-Commerce on my website. It is oficially open but is definately a work in progress. I will be adding to my store constantly and changing the format at times until I get the look I want. Please tell family and friends who do not live close to shop at my store they can now shop online at www.greentheworldstore.com.

Also, there seems to be some confusion on the various "recycle" symbols. Below please find information that will hopefully clear up if something is recyclable or made from a recycled product.


Recycled
Recycling programs are increasing across the nation and around the world as a means of reducing the amount of landfill space needed for waste. But collecting papers and bottles is only half of the process. Consumers need to purchase products made of recycled materials to complete the cycle.Because Nature recycles everything-100 percent-every blade of grass, butterfly, fish, leaf, bird, all degrade back into the soil-every life form is made from recycled material. Even our own bodies are made from recycled food, broken down into basic nutrients and reassembled into cells.In the world of manufacturing consumer products, a "recycled" product is a new product made from materials that would otherwise have been waste, broken down (melted or pulped) into a basic substance from which a new product can be formed. Even though the word "recycled" is commonly used to mean reusing something in any way, legal definitions require the old product to be broken down into its basic material and a new product formed for it to be called "recycled."Recycled products have an almost universally-recognized symbol-the three "chasing arrows." It was originally developed in the 1970's by the American Paper Institute (API) for use on recycled papers, but is it now widely used on products of all kinds and has become the unofficial national symbol for recycling of anything and everything.The recycling symbol appears on products in two forms. API suggests that solid chasing arrows within a black circle represent "recycled content" in a product or package and that the arrows appearing in outline signify that a product or package is "recyclable". Permission to use the API chasing arrows symbol is given freely to any manufacturer without a fee. However, many products use the symbols without permission or guidance as to their meaning. Many people-consumers and manufacturers alike-do not understand these fine distinctions and either use the symbols incorrectly on the label, misunderstand the intended meaning of the symbol, or both. Look for other descriptive words explaining the meaning of the symbol for clarification.

There are three general levels of recycled products that can all be called "recycled".The first (appropriately called "primary recycling") is the reprocessing or remanufacturing of discarded materials into the same product which can then be recycled again, such as a glass container into a glass container or a steel product to a steel product. The second level ("secondary recycling") is the reprocessing or remanufacturing of discarded materials into a different, but similar, product which is technically recyclable-old corrugated cardboard boxes into cereal boxes, for example.The third level ("tertiary recycling") is the reprocessing or remanufacturing of discarded materials into a product which is not likely to be recycled, such as recycling mixed office paper into bathroom tissue. There is much controversy among manufacturers, distributors, regulators, and consumers over what constitutes a "real" recycled product. There are two kinds of recycled material that can go into making a recycled product. Post-industrial waste" or "pre-consumer waste" is that waste generated by industrial manufacturing processes that would have otherwise gone to a landfill (not included are wastes that have customarily been "put back in the pot" in the factory). "Post-consumer waste" or "PCW" is the bottles, cans, plastic milk jugs, and newspapers we collect and recycle after we are done using them. There are those who believe that only products made from post-consumer waste should be called "recycled." Considering that for every pound of consumer waste there is twenty-five pounds of manufacturing waste, pre-consumer waste has it's place in products called "recycled," too. Products just need to be labeled correctly so consumers can make their own choices.

Recyclable
As recycling programs are increasing across the nation and around the world as a means of reducing the amount of landfill space needed for waste, more and more products are becoming part of the goldmine of raw materials from which new products can be fashioned.A "recyclable" product is, simply, one that can be collected and made into a new recycled product. But when considering the recyclability of a product there are two separate and distinct issues: 1) Can a product or material technically be recycled? 2) In real life, can a product or material practically be recycled?The difference between these two definitions of "recyclable" is the subject of hot controversy in the product/packaging labeling world. Some say that any product or material that can technically be recycled should be labeled "recyclable." Others say that the attribute "recyclable" should only be used on a label if, in fact, it can really be recycled in the community where the product or package is sold. While recyclables such as glass or newspapers can be recycled almost everywhere, other recyclables like plastics or motor oil can only be recycled in the limited number of areas where programs have been set up.Because of inconsistencies in labeling laws and guidelines, consumers who want to buy a product or package they can recycle can't rely on the label to indicate what can and can't be recycled. Many manufacturers have removed the word "recyclable" from their products and packages altogether. Other manufacturers call their products and packages "recyclable" regardless of the availability of a local recycling center.Recyclable products have an almost universally-recognized symbol-the three "chasing arrows." It was originally developed in the 1970's by the American Paper Institute (API) for use on recycled papers, but is it now widely used on products of all kinds and has become the unofficial national symbol for recycling of anything and everything.The recycling symbol appears on products in two forms. API suggests that solid chasing arrows within a black circle be used to represent "recycled content" in a product or package and that the arrows appearing in outline signify that a product or package is recyclable. Permission to use the API chasing arrows symbol is given freely to any manufacturer without a fee. However, many products use the symbols without permission or guidance as to their meaning. Many people-consumers and manufacturers alike-do not understand these fine distinctions and either use the symbols incorrectly on the label, misunderstand the intended meaning of the symbol, or both. Look for other descriptive words that indicate the intended meaning of the symbol.Whether or not is economically feasible to recycle a product is yet another question. Often, virgin raw materials are cheaper than recycled materials (thanks to government subsidies and policies). Transportation issues can also come into play-is it better for the environment to use a local raw material or recycled material transported from a great distance? The shipping costs of moving collected recyclables to a distant processing plant can eat up all the profit. And, recently, there have been gluts of recyclable material-especially newspapers-that become worthless when there are not enough buyers of recycled products. All these problems can be worked out. It's important now to support the market for recyclable material by buying recycled products, and not simply give up on recycling as impractical.The primary markets for recycled materials right now are aluminum and other scrap metals, glass, paper and plastic. These are easily recognizable even without the word "recyclable" on the label.Because recyclability of any product is so specific to your local community, it's important to know which products technically can be recycled, and which can practically be recycled where you live. Take an hour or two to find out how and where your recyclables can be recycled, then make convenient arrangements in your home for collection, and take recyclables to the collection center (or put them out for pick-up) on a regular basis.Now that we are faced with the need to conserve resources and limited landfill space, recycling will become as normal a part of our lives as taking out the garbage. In the last few years, the collection of recyclables and the manufacture of recycled products has becomes a multimillion dollar industry. We are beginning to see that recycling is the most effective and economical way to handle the waste we produce in this country.A very large portion of our waste is recyclable or otherwise reusable. If we recycled all of our paper and paperboard (40%), all of our metals (9%), all of our plastic (8%), and all our glass (7%), we would reduce our total garbage by 64 percent! If, in addition, we reclaimed our wood (4%), rubber (3%), and textiles (2%) for other uses, we would be down to only 27 percent of our current garbage. By composting yard wastes (18%) and food wastes (7%), we're left with only two percent of our current solid waste to place in a landfill or otherwise dispose of. Of course, this is idealistic, but it's an sustainability goal worth pursuing. Though the national recycling average is only 13%, some individual states have higher recycling rates: Washington 28%, New Jersey 25%, Oregon 25%, Vermont 18%, Illinois 18%, and Maine 17%.