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Going Green: Pros and Cons

by Alex Vidal on 20/01/10 at 9:19 am

My fiancé got me this really sweet “tree pad” (pictured) as a little birthday gift last week, and while some may argue it’s mere production is a paradox in and of itself, yesterday at work it became the topic of progressive conversation. Conversation in the way of helping my “green” company, go even greener. So I randomly started thinking about the time four years and four jobs ago when I tried getting the company I worked for to “go green”. I was four years younger and inspired by the then recent release of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. My boss seemed all for it. “Show me how it makes sense financially.” Well I don’t think I was determined enough to go the extra mile, ’cause at best my efforts ended shortly thereafter when I couldn’t justify paying for the local recycling service to collect weekly. This trip down memory lane lead to a random google search today: going green pros and cons.

I’m honestly not surprised to find the first and only article that I click on to really get on my nerves. Now, I’m not trying to start any beef here (cause I’m a vegetarian but I ain’t ******* scared of him – okay sorry I had to), but newsflash Sevastian Winters! Basically, your blog post’s list of “cons” can be summed up by the following:

1) We’ll all lose our jobs! (It costs too much money)

2) It takes too much time! (It costs too much money)

3) We’ll all lose our jobs and go broke! (It costs too much money)

I’m not trying to be a jerk, but for the record, I didn’t really read anything other than the cons section so if there’s anything good in the pros, feel free to leave a comment but here are my words to you:

1) My cousin has your first name!

2) It DOESN’T cost too much MONEY to go GREEN.

3) Money is the reason you’re looking at “going green” all wrong.

“Going green” is not just some marketing catch phrase or liberal trend. I remember my 6th grade science teacher talking about it and I’m pretty sure you don’t want to argue with Mrs. DeCarlo. Now I skimmed a few other posts and you’re a good writer. Better than I! For this reason, I befriend you and kindly encourage you to stay tuned to the Pizza Fusion blog this and next week. We plan on highlighting some key environmental AND financial benefits to businesses and consumers for “going green”, along with reasons WHY Pizza Fusion has chosen some of the methods they have (hybrid cars, green web hosting, etc).

Thanks for reading and have a green day!