We celebrated Earth Day on April 21st with Experience Green and
Hilton Head Monthly at Shelter Cove Community Park. We are very passionate about being
green and take steps at making a difference, we call it “greenifying.”
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| Carolina and the zumba girls enjoying some Pino Gelato |
We participate in a program with our local power supplier that
allows us to buy power from renewable energy sources like wind turbines and
solar panels. They estimate the environmental benefits of choosing renewable
energy sources each year are the same as not driving a car for three months!
In our store, we use biodegradable cups, to-go containers,
napkins and trash can liners. We clean with environmentally friendly products, and have replaced
our floor mats, and our ceiling and floor tiles with ones made from recycled
materials. We always recycle plastic, there are so many plastic bottles and
bags that the average American uses each year, and recycling these items is so
much better for the environment. We even spotted the Bag Monster at the Earth
Day event!
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| Don't Feed the Bag Monster! |
We
can go green in all parts of our daily routines, because it isn’t just
recycling. We can also use environmentally friendly products, or be aware of
our energy consumption. Our employees at Pino Gelato take pride in our green
efforts, and apply our “greenification” to our personal lives as well.
The
energy saved from recycling a single aluminum can is enough to power your TV
for three hours! Recycling paper is important too. For every ton of paper that
is recycled, 20 trees and an amazing 7,000 gallons of water are saved.
Lets
talk about the computer you are reading this blog on, if you left it on for the
entire time you owned it, it wouldn’t use as much energy as it took to make it.
In fact, you wouldn’t even use 1/4 of the energy required to make it.
Did
you know that “quadrillion” was a word? Me neither. Well it turns out the
United States consumes over 99 quadrillion BTUs of energy per years…that’s 15
zeros. One BTU is equal to the energy from lighting a single match. It feels
good to take steps at reducing our energy consumption and using renewable
sources whenever we can.
Nick
Wheeler is a thirteen-year-old local resident who cares very much about our
environment, and we got a chance to chat over some gelato at the event. Nick
started a non-profit organization called “Kids Helping Kids Help the
Environment", which has cleanup events at local beaches and parks. You can
check out their Facebook page.
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| We all can make a difference |
We
are always looking for new ways to “greenify.” What do you do at home to help
our environment? Do you reuse something that most people would throw away, or
use green products that you want to tell people about? Let us know as we strive to be greener and greener.
