Stolog5 Are businesses trying to help to the environment?

The answer to this question is yes or at least one company is. The company P&G are making a step in helping the environment. I found the article Protor and Gamble Makes New Major Commitment to Sustainability at http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/09/proctor-gamble-green-commitment.php?campaign=th_rss.

This article is very short but has a lot of information in it. It talks about how the company P&G is the world's largest comsumer company and now it has a new commitment to sustainability. They have three main goals to do this, which are: powering its plants with 100 percent renewable energy, using 100 percent renewable or recycled materials for all products and packaging, and cutting down on packaging materials. With P&G taking this bold step other companies may take on this feat as well. This huge change is going to be a big step so P&G will be putting out yearly progess reports. The first major benchmark will be coming out in 2020. The article then goes on to mention four product: Pringles, Tide, PUR, and Olay, that will be in better packaging. Along with having their first benchmark out by 2020 they also want to replace 25 percent of petroleum-based materials with renewable materials, reasulting in a reduction of 20 percent in packaging. That isn't the only thing P&G wants accomplished by 2020, they also want to power its plants with 30 percent renewable energy and cut back on truch transportation by 20 percent. Finally the article goes on to say that P&G is acting to the new world of business which has increased resource competition and climate change concerns. With making these changes P&G can market to consumers and investers that it is among the greenest companies. Another thing this is doing for P&G is lowering future expenses by limiting fuel and packaging expenses.

In this article they also leave a link to a webpage that shows the full plans for their switch. There are seven catorgies to look at on this page: overview, environmental sustainability, social responsibiliy, product safety, employee engagement, points of view, heritage & recognition, and reports. Each of these talks about steps or actions P&G is taking.

After reading this article I decided to look up videos on P&G sustainablility and found this clip. I found out that P&G has been working on being evironmentally friendly for a while and helping other countires.





I think that this is an amazing idea for P&G to do. They are taking a risk but this risk is going to change the way businesses work in today's society. Other businesses will take this idea to get cosumers but P&G will get the credit for starting it so they are helping themselves in the long run with their business. The bonus to them expanding their business is that they are helping the environment. I think it's awesome that P&G isn't just doing this change for business but they see that the environment is being damged and that it needs to stop.

stolog5 Old Shows are still around and Fighting the Environmental Issues

I found an article about Captain Planet at http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/09/captain-planet-turns-20-and-gets-his-own-holiday.php?campaign=th_rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+%28Treehugger%29&utm_content=Google+Reader and thought wow I remember this show from when I was little. Seeing this character from my childhood got me into writing a blog about Captain Planet.

This article talks about celebrating the 20th birthday of Captain Planet. For those of you who have never seen Captain Planet check out this video to get a feel about this TV show



This article says that the Captain Planet Foundation," an organization dedicaed to educating youth about the environment, has declared September 15,2010 "National Captain Plant Day."' This event will be celebrated in Atlanta. Ted Turner who created the series and also happens to be one of the top 5 green billionaries will be there. At the Altanta City Hall on September 7th Councilman Kwanza Hall made Captain Planet the first ever proclamatoin to an eco-superhero. Not only did Captain Planet get that he also got award from the city's mayor and the governor of Georgia.It then goes on the say how people who are determined to help the earth have created a website http://captainplanet.me/. Finally at the end of the article it says to go to Captain Planet @ 20 to volunteer because they need all the "Planeteers" they can get.

The reason why Captain Planet is related to the Environment is because in each epidose the "Planeteers" and Captain Planet fight evil villians who are destroying the Earth. Then at the end of the show they give an example on how you can help the environment and how only you can help kept the planet clean. The example at the end always referes to the story that you just watched.

This video shows one of the examples on how you can help the environment.
  

I think that this is awesome!!!! Giving an award and recognizing a superhero that helps the environment is great. I think that this will help to promote the show, possible getting more air time, and encourage people to keep the planet green, especially with all this talk of global warming. I think that Captain Planet should be shown more often, ot keeps the kids interested and also gives good advice on how to care for the planet


I love Captain Planet <3

stolog5 Me

I enjoy acting/musical theater and the arts.As a senior in high school I'm planning to attend college to major in theater and major/minor in business management or marketing.

Anything I can get involved in school or the community I usually do because I love be active. I dislike just sitting around and listening to a speaker, I'd rather be involved.

While taking environmental I would like to learn how to help keep the environment clean. I'm already helping the enviornment by picking up trash along the highway and recycling. Also global warming is a big deal at the moment and I want to know how to help stop that.