ENCOURAGE BUSINESSES TO BECOME GREENER
When you think of going green what do you think of? Perhaps you think of eating healthy, recycling, and even going green in the sense of painting your face green for some big football game. However, this paper (which comes from some very reputable sources, such as Mother Nature Network and SCORE, which is the nationally trusted info site for small businesses) will show you that businesses that go green not only save the environment, but they also save money and create a better work environment for their employees. In short, enacting my resolution of encouraging businesses to become greener will benefit the economy and the health of the earth on a global scale. First I will go over how going green effects the environment and then the cost and timeframe, and finally I will tie it up with how going green effects the health of employees.
Going green has been a topic of controversy for years, people argue over whether it actually saves money and if it actually helps the environment. They also argue that going green will take far too long to get approved. Let me lay these arguments to rest. First off, going green does help the environment! Climate change has caused death and disease all over the world, through natural disasters such as heat-waves, floods and droughts. In addition, many diseases (i.e. vector-borne diseases like malaria) that are highly sensitive to changing temperatures and precipitation have become more rampant but, going green has been shown to reverse the climate change, bringing these natural disasters and diseases down (www.all-recycling-facts.com ). One of the arguments that people brought up saying that going green doesn’t help the environment was that people who put green products in place don’t actually lean toward the green. Studies have shown that people leave energy efficient lights on longer and the Shelton group, which advocates for sustainable consumer choices, showed that of 500 people who had...