What does "green business" means to me?
Green is the beginning of my criteria. I try very hard to only add to my life things that are second hand/repaired/freecycled, or that are investments in my values for local/sustainable/ethical businesses.
I try to close the emotional gap that the global market makes. If someone got murdered making my coffee - well, I have to ask myself, would I have murdered him for this cup? (on a bad day, maybe…) If a child was exposed to pesticides growing the fruit or cotton I am consuming, I have to ask myself, would I expose my own child to pesticides for this peach or this T shirt? My eldest child taught me this personalization when she asked me when she was four if I would have a slave if we lived in the old days…. and I had to say that everyone in our country has slaves - they are working in other countries where we can’t see what we are doing to them.
Something that is truly green is good for the planet and its people - ultimately, there can be no separation.
What does "green business" means to YOU?
I try to close the emotional gap that the global market makes. If someone got murdered making my coffee - well, I have to ask myself, would I have murdered him for this cup? (on a bad day, maybe…) If a child was exposed to pesticides growing the fruit or cotton I am consuming, I have to ask myself, would I expose my own child to pesticides for this peach or this T shirt? My eldest child taught me this personalization when she asked me when she was four if I would have a slave if we lived in the old days…. and I had to say that everyone in our country has slaves - they are working in other countries where we can’t see what we are doing to them.
Something that is truly green is good for the planet and its people - ultimately, there can be no separation.
What does "green business" means to YOU?