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Kudos to Camden, Maine’s No Spray Way
Implementing changes that matter is rarely easy. People can be difficult to please. That’s why when people go for it, implementing significant changes for the good, we simply must applaud them. Today we’re applauding the town of Camden, Maine. To make a longer story short, the town has banned, barring emergencies, the use of pesticides on all public lands. They didn’t have a big dependence on sprays, according to one news report, but they did suspend any limited applications that were present.
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The RTU Debacle
We had recently written an article about all the green in the air this year. And since that article was written, about fifteen other articles have crossed our desk, all with the same theme: going green. It’s all good, a positive direction, a new level of conscientiousness. We’re happy about it. But some things still remind us we have a ways to go in some areas. Our RTU Debacle is one such area.
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More Controls for Pest Nematodes
Are these products commercially available? To the best of our knowledge, the answer is no […]
We can’t possibly know it all or offer it all, and some of the juicy goodness out there is bound to slip by. Some information is caught by others and brought back to us — and we appreciate that. When this happens, the least we can do is share what we found (or rather what was found for us). The information in this post is an example of this. This information comes to us from a customer, Julie.
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The Green Marketing Era
Green, green, everywhere it’s green. That seems to be a big focus in 2008, green power, green cars, green computing. It amuses us in a way — since we’ve been green since 1992 as a company and gardened green our entire lives — that the marketplace has suddenly turned so green, but it’s all good. We know it’s nothing new, but to those who have previously never embraced the concepts of environmental responsibility, sustainability, and other green goodness, this is a dawning moment and we’re happy to see it. It seems a good share of the world has decided to trade in their Hummers for hybrids in 2008 and that’s good, since we sure do need it.
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Help Us Reuse Our Old Catalogs
Waste is a terrible thing, that’s why we reuse everything we can here at The Green Spot, and what we can’t reuse we recycle. The items we reuse are ice packs, foam boxes, even packing materials like packing peanuts (which we get from the University of New Hampshire), and shredded paper (which we make from our own in-bound junk mail). Not only is this action expected because we are a “green” company, but it is our responsibility as stewards of our planet. But not everything can be reused by us. We need your help, in such a way that you may find benefits your needs.
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GBHXonline Web Hosting Launches New Site
A partnered division of our company, GBHXonline.com, has just launched a new web and blog hosting site. This is the site’s fifth incarnation, and it really needed to be done. Even though version four was an award winning site, it was over two years old and it was time for a “reboot” as they say in the web development industry. Like this site we chose WordPress for the site’s back-end (admin) affording the GBHXonline team the ability to get as much power as possible out of the site while ensuring ease of maintenance.
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