The lists are heavily weighted towards identifiable brands rather than ingredients, so I don't know who gets the votes of, say, people who like their apples peeled and cut up vs. those who will just eat them whole. But perhaps the Sun Chips fans of any political persuasion will be encouraged that PepsiCo/Frito-Lay is now making them with real sun at their Modesto plant. Kudos to the company for working to get off the grid and reduce energy. No word if Funyuns will now contain actual fun.
]]>I'd like to thank the Academy, and my colleagues at NRDC, and everyone else who participated in this historic endeavor, the inaugural greening initiative of the 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards. For an event so large and influential, even small steps along the greener path make a huge difference in reducing environmental impacts - and some of the steps the GRAMMYs took this year were even bigger than we had anticipated. We couldn't have done this without Megan and David and Neil and everyone else at the Recording Academy who worked tirelessly on this initiative, as did Thea and her colleagues at Cossette Productions, and Jennifer and Sam and the other great people at the STAPLES Center.
A very special thanks goes to Thomas and the other folks at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for making sure the telecast and afterparty were powered by renewable energy. Thanks to Jessica for heading the team of volunteers who posted recycling bins all over the STAPLES Center, and Allen for his incredible vision and passion, and Petra and Lisa and everyone else at NRDC who helped pull this together. Thanks to - wait, don't start the music yet - all the staff and vendors and everyone involved in this production who worked to make their piece of the event a little greener, from the flex-fuel and hybrid cars to the organic food to the recycled content toilet paper.
I know it's time for me to stop, but I don't want to leave anyone out because this kind of giant undertaking is really a sum of all the small steps taken by a lot of different people working individually - and laying groundwork to build on in the future. So please read more about the first-ever Green the GRAMMYs initiative and thank you for listening.
]]>Maybe Heather can comment on this, but the moms I know either carry full on first-aid kits or they're using bags with so many tiny pockets that a little red pouch isn't really going to be the deciding factor in digging out a tube of neosporin. The explosion of stuff that comes with having kids is not improved by encasing said stuff in more stuff, especially flimsy, petroleum-sucking plastic stuff, much less those vicious hard clamshell cases tough enough to have spawned their own side industry of stuff--tools to open hard plastic clamshell cases. I agree with Colin here, if we could get the clever minds of marketers at J&J to work on reducing stuff and making stuff work better, we could probably be running our computers on avocado rinds. Mmmm....avocados...
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