Blog : April 2009

Earth Week Chock Full of Amazing Green Events for GA

By sarah | Apr 19, 2009 | in

It was an incredibly busy few weeks for the GA, with numerous Earth Day events and celebrations providing even more community awareness of our ever-growing enterprise.

Last Tuesday the Radisson Hotel in Nashua hosted their first ever Eco-Hospitality Summit. With nearly 50 vendors representing everything from organic cannolis to sustainable lawn pest control to hotels and restaurants from all over New England, we made some outstanding contacts and met some incredibly creative and driven entrepreneurs.

This last Saturday also saw the first ever Hampton Earth Awareness Fair. Despite cloudy skies and threatening rain, dozens of local citizens turned out to mingle with Seacoast green vendors including the GA, as well as business partners Simply Green, Waterline Alternative Energies, MJW Drywalling, and many more. The strong turnout definitely bodes well for the fair going forward, and the GA is already looking forward to helping make next year's event even stronger.

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What Does It Mean To Go Green?

By sarah | Apr 9, 2009 | in

One year into the creation of a novel organization that works with local businesses looking to “go green”, it’s worth taking stock of what it means to be green today. The “green movement” has now moved so far into the mainstream of the American consciousness that most businesses, regardless of industry, are embracing the concept. This “popularization” of sustainability has happened at a lighting pace. Just two years ago the words green or sustainability conjured up images of fringe individuals “obsessed with the environment” or long-haired “tree-huggers”. Today this is no longer the case. Environmentalism has moved well beyond simply looking out for the best interests of our planet. It has transcended party lines and religious beliefs; it has become common sense. Today’s mainstream green wave is considered not just good for the trees but also good for our pocket-books, our quality of life and a businesses’ bottom line.

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