What Is Green?
Green is protecting your health, protecting the Earth, and protecting human rights.
Select the orange words above to learn more.
Protecting your health
- Access to Clean Water ›
- Clear Labeling
- Food Justice
- Integrative Healthcare
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Source-to-Shelf
Accountability
The demand that municipal water sources, and bottled water, be free from pollutants that result in health hazards and that they be accessible for testing by community groups.
Protecting your health
Providing consumers standardized third-party identifiers that help make purchase decisions based on the way something was grown and/ or manufactured.
Protecting your health
Community-based sustainable agriculture that produces nutrient dense organic, affordable, and accessible food that is free of toxins and genetic modifications.
Protecting your health
- Access to Clean Water
- Clear Labeling
- Food Justice
- Integrative Healthcare ›
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Source-to-Shelf
Accountability
The option to choose a multifaceted approach to health and medical care that includes non-Western treatment choices.
Protecting your health
- Access to Clean Water
- Clear Labeling
- Food Justice
- Integrative Healthcare
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Source-to-Shelf
Accountability ›
The practice of making information regarding complete supply chains (including subcontracted companies) accessible for consumers to understand an end product's impact on consumer health, the environment, and supply chain workers.
Protecting the Earth
Respect, protection, and ethical treatment of animals that eliminates their use as research subjects, for entertainment, clothing, and/ or food.
Protecting the Earth
- Animal Rights
- Alternative Transportation ›
- Conscious Consumption
- Cradle-to-Cradle Design
- Green Building
- Habitat Protection
- Recycling
- Sustainable Design
- Renewable Energy
- Upcycling
- Zero Waste
Actively walking or using a bike, train, bus, Zipcar, or other non-personal vehicle as a means to commute from one location to another.
Protecting the Earth
The action of actively thinking about, and considering: where a purchase comes from; how an item was made; the environmental impact of an item; and the ethical processes used to protect supply chain workers rights during the manufacturing of an item.
Protecting the Earth
The process of consciously creating a manufacturing process that has a minimal impact on the environment, protects worker rights, and is essentially waste free because the product design includes recycled and/ or upcycled materials.
Protecting the Earth
Building new structures that use environmentally friendly and resource-efficient practices throughout the entire design and construction process that result in the reduction of waste, the protection of tenant health, and efficient energy and water use.
Protecting the Earth
The practice of conserving, protecting, and restoring areas for plants and animals in order to prevent specie extinction and the creation of unbalanced ecosystems.
Protecting the Earth
Reducing waste, pollution, energy use, and the use/ consumption of new materials by preventing potentially useful materials from disposal by processing them for use in new products.
Protecting the Earth
The thoughtful process of reducing, or eliminating, the environmental impact of a product, garment, building, crop, etc. by planning projects to be sensitive to available natural resources, ecosystems, and local communities.
Protecting the Earth
Creating usable energy from natural resources like biomass waste, wind, rain, tides, sunlight, and geothermal heat.
Protecting the Earth
Giving higher value to, and eliminating the waste of, an item by repurposing the materials into a new useful item.
Protecting the Earth
The process of planning the lifecyle and supply chain of a product, building, business, or event to consciously consider methods to reduce trash and minimize the waste of resources and money.
Protecting human rights
- Corporate Transparency ›
- Ethical Working Conditions
- Fair-trade
- Living Wages
The practice of making all governing practices of a company easily available to the public and allowing for authentic dialogue between consumers and executives.
Protecting human rights
- Corporate Transparency
- Ethical Working Conditions ›
- Fair-trade
- Living Wages
Worker conditions that are safe, free from mental, emotional, and physical intimidation and harassment, non-discriminatory, provide a minimum living wage compensation to workers for all hours worked, and do-not violate any human rights.
Protecting human rights
- Corporate Transparency
- Ethical Working Conditions
- Fair-trade ›
- Living Wages
Fair-trade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable community development that creates opportunities for producers and workers who have been economically disadvantaged or marginalized by the conventional trading system.
Protecting human rights
- Corporate Transparency
- Ethical Working Conditions
- Fair-trade
- Living Wages ›
A living wage is a minimum hourly wage paid to a worker that will meet basic needs, including shelter, clothing, and nutrition, for an extended period of time in the country in which the work is performed.
