Nominate us for Green Business of the Year!

Are you passionate about issues of environmental sustainability, and economic and social justice? Want to make your voice heard? Believe it or not, it can be as easy as taking 2 minutes out of your day to cast your vote in Co-op America's 2007 People's Choice Award!

Ideal Bite, whom I wrote about in last week's blog entry, took the crown for 2006 and this year we hope to be in the running as well. Now that we are Co-op America approved, you can nominate Natural Heights using the easy online nomination form on the Co-op America website. Click here to cast your vote and then tell everyone you know to do so as well!

Happy voting!

Ideal Bite in Body+Soul

My favorite magazine, Body+Soul, arrived in my mailbox this week featuring the founders of my favorite daily e-mail tip, Ideal Bite! The article features Heather Stephenson and Jennifer Boulden, founders of Ideal Bite, and some of their all time favorite eco-friendly products, including the Ideal Bite Sigg water bottle...of course!

If you'd like to receive a daily eco-tip from Ideal Bite, you can sign up right here on our blog or the links page of our website, and join the quarter million "biters" who are already taking small steps everyday to improve the planet.

Sustainable infrastructure

As a native Minnesotan, the Minneapolis bridge collapse really hit home for me this week. Thankfully all of my friends and family are safe and sound, but there were also many stories of near misses. I myself, drove over that bridge thousands of times.

Now that light has been shed on just how badly our infrastructure is in a state of disrepair, shouldn't this signal a need for a more sustainable one such as light rail? With convenient access to public transportation, more freeways could be turned into toll roads to help with maintenance costs, and fewer cars would be on the road adding to wear and tear.

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