QUOTES
By
living, buying, and investing green, you are choosing to put your economic power
to work for a better world as you meet your own family's needs.
With
each green step you take, you help solve our planet's problems. When you buy fair
trade coffee, bananas, chocolate, and gifts, you ensure a fair wage for farmers
and producers around the world. By choosing organic foods and organic cotton clothing,
you put an end to the dangerous pesticides used on conventional crops. By making
your home more energy-efficient, you stop global warming and crate a more secure
energy future. You restore the Earth. You save lives.
Goods
and services, jobs and empowerment, community and environmental health - all of
these are the products of green businesses. By living, buying, and investing green,
you are celebrating and nurturing the connections that sustain us all.
Everything
in the world is connected. In the large and small choices you and I make every
day, we are connected to each other, the Earth and everyone on it.
With
each green step you take, you help solve our planet's problems…Together, all of
our green steps add up to powerful change.
If
you look around Green Festival, you'd be convinced that the movement for a just
and sustainable world is booming. But is it? The answer is a resounding 'yes'!
And success is being fueled by creative, passionate, people using powerful economic
strategies to promote fair trade, renewable energy, local economies, and investment
in healthy communities.
Socially
responsible investing is a powerful concept. It's strong performance and ability
to improve corporate responsibility gets people's attention.
