We love Mother Earth-- who doesn’t? These days it’s easy and a bit cliche to state that you are environmentally aware, but together we Grovers are an eco-friendly bunch both at work and at home. This week we wanted to share a little of what we do to live conscientiously.
Living in the Pacific Northwest we are close to the natural environment. It’s a hop, skip, and a jump to the mountains, desert, coastal rain forest, the plains, and the Pacific Ocean. Grovers are an outdoor loving bunch and we want to do our small part to help to keep our environment clean and protected!
It’s hard to do everything yourself. So, here are some of our daily practices that collectively team Grove contributes to:
- We recycle our trash and use our materials as efficiently as possible to reduce waste.
- Many of us ride bikes every day!
- We use metal water bottles and ceramic mugs for our piping hot green tea.
- Some of us roll in hybrid cars.
- We have a compost pile which makes happy healthy worms for Scott’s indoor aquaponic gardening project!
- We cook at home and pack our lunches.
- Sean’s got big plans for a small scale solar project at our new shop. (He’s also building a chicken coop at home!)
- We support local organic farms and for those of us who buy meat and eggs we try to support free range farms whenever possible.
- We try to reduce our plastic consumption by buying items in reusable glass containers.
- In the summer months we garden and grow sprouts!
- Grover Mike “Mac Daddy” Dowty has even sworn off showers to save Portland’s water supply. :)
How do you practice living conscientiously? We know that you can’t change everything, but every little bit counts. goGrove!
Written by Mike Schultz. He is an oil painter who hails from Ithaca, NY. When he’s not working for Grove he’s painting and drawing to his heart’s content. You can see artwork on his process blog and website.
