Green Tips: Environmentally Friendly Tips for Everyday Life

Saving Water The availability of clean water is one of the central issues of our time, and we all need to do our part to use this resource wisely. Saving water is simple. Try:
1. Turning the water off while brushing your teeth, washing your hands, and washing dishes.
2. Taking shorter showers (you will save water and energy to heat it, reducing your carbon dioxide emissions).
3. Getting a low-flow showerhead.
4. Doing only full loads of laundry and dishes.
5. If your washing machine has a setting for the amount of clothing you're washing (small to extra-large load), choose a low setting—you'll use less water and your clothes will get just as clean.
6. If your dishwasher has an option to run a "full" or "short" cycle, choose the short cycle.
7. Watering your lawn only in the morning or evening. (Water evaporates four to eight times faster during the heat of the day.)
8. If you really want to reduce the water needed to maintain your yard, consider xeriscaping—a landscaping technique that uses native, drought-tolerant plants in favor of ever-thirsty grass.
9. Install a rain barrel to capture rain from your downspout.
10. Washing your car less often.
11. Fixing all of the leaks in your home.
12. Avoiding bottled water and instead using a reusable water bottle. It takes millions of gallons of water to produce the plastic for single-use water bottles, and millions more to purify the water that goes into them.

Natural Products Expo West: Our Commitment to the Earth

From our commitment to recycle to our commitment to reuse and reduce, Natural Products Expo West and its partners are dedicated to reducing our impact on the earth and its resources. We are committed to doing everything possible to make our trade shows earth-friendly and implementing new and innovative programs to lessen the impact of our events.

Please join us in helping to minimize the impact on our environment. Together, we can help encourage healthy lifestyles and create a healthy planet that is important to the growing natural and organic products industry.

  • Powering the 930,000 square foot Anaheim Convention Center with wind and solar energy through offsets.
  • Providing attendees and exhibitors a green-powered travel option, through the purchase of renewable energy certificates via registration.
  • Encouraging "car" pooling through a regional bus service or participating in the shuttle service provided by Natural Products Expo West to the official host hotels.
  • Using sustainable building materials for show structures and exhibits that will be reused over a 3-year period, including, but not limited to plyboo, Woodstock, muslin drape, 100% recyclable aluminum extrusion and low-VOC paints provided by Freeman.
  • Using biodegradable flatware at Natural Products Expo West events and feature areas.
  • Outfitting Expo staff with organic t-shirts with vegetable dye ink
  • Offering attendees green educational seminars.
  • Collecting and donating unused samples and products to local Anaheim charities and food banks.
  • Providing local, free-range, natural and organic products at concessions and events in partnership with Aramark.
  • Printing show promotional materials on 30-100% post consumer recycled paper.
  • Purchasing show premiums and gifts made of recycled materials.
  • Biodegradable table liners in all exhibit booths.
  • Providing the exhibitor service kit online only, eliminating paper and CD production.
  • Offering environmentally friendly exhibit packages through Freeman, including recycled carpet, 100% recyclable aluminum extrusion, plyboo panels and low-VOC paints.

Our commitment is ongoing and this is only the start. Thank you for your partnership in our efforts as an industry to reduce the environmental impacts of our events.

To find out more about what New Hope Natural Media is doing as a company, click here.


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Time/Dates

Location

  • Anaheim Convention Center
  • 800 W. Katella Ave
  • Anaheim, CA 92802 USA

Dates

  • Education:
    March 13-16, 2008
  • Trade Show:
    March 14-16, 2008

Show Floor Hours

  • Fri/Sat:
    10:00am - 6:00pm
  • Sunday:
    10:00am - 4:00pm

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