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Greening our business is now second nature for us. Â When Kim and IÂ started our Little Green Workshops business, we wanted it to be as green as we possibly could. Â We strive to make sure that our personal values shine through when we teach our classes and that all of our ingredients and equipment are as sustainably sourced as possible. Â From local milk for the cheese making, to as much locally sourced oils for soap making, and eco-soya wax for candle making. Â We reuse things as much as possible and recycle everything that is possible.
During this episode you will hear Kim and I talk about how we started our business and what we teach. Â We get a bit off track at the start, but get to the greening part at around the 12:40 mark. Â If you just want to specifically listen to greening our business then fast forward to that time mark.
We have carried that through to our on-line business and all our new products where possible. Â Additionally, around the office we make sure that we source post-consumer 100% recycled paper, refill our own toner and ink cartridges for printing our booklets and invoices, and of course we use 100% renewable energy here at home.
An as for packaging our products we use recycled cardboard boxes and brown paper for most of our shipping. Â We even shred our old tax documents and any other paper we can get our hands on for filler for shipping. Â Nothing goes to waste around here. Â Boxes that we receive stock in gets reused for our own shipping or cut into soap mould lids or given away to friends. Â If we can’t find a use for it, we then recycle into curbside recycling.
We hope you enjoy the show and learn a little bit more about how we try to keep our business as green as possible.
Hi Gavin – have just got down to studying your site. I am very interested in your cheese making. In the past my husband and I had a Goat Dairy supplying milk/cheese and yoghurt. That was many moons ago in the days when pastuerization of goats milk was not compulsory. We built a mud brick house and lived without electricity for 10 years so you can see why I am enjoying reading about all your activities. Now 79 and 76 respectively we still grow all our own vegetables, bottle our fruit and make yoghurt and camembert cheese. Recently I started a blog: http://www.retireandenjoy.com. It seems so many retired people don’t know what to do with themselves when in fact there is so much out there to enjoy even with limited capabilities and resources. I will take the liberty of putting a link to your site for my readers to follow. I am sure many will be inspired by The Greening of Gavin. Many thanks.
Janice