We recycle at KSDG. Every piece of garbage at our office gets meticulously sorted; food waste goes to the compost bin, plastics and papers get recycled, and the most minute portion gets put into the actual landfill. I love that Kevin is committed to this.
I’d like to share with you all a bit about what makes me so committed to environmentalism and to Kevin Stephens Design Group. When I was a kid, I had two hippy parents. We went to demonstrations to freeze the nuclear arms race, we had a compost pile in by the garden in the back yard. We re-used mason jars for mugs. The whole shabang. So when I got older and started hearing how seriously damaged our environment was–and that it was only getting worse, I got really upset. Angry. Indignant.
I started my school’s Earth Club in third grade. I raised money to design “save the rainforest” t-shirts, sell them, and buy an acre of protected rainforest with the profits. I would bug my parents about leaving the faucet on when they brushed their teeth. This stuff was important to me. Over the years, as I got older, I became more jaded and cynical about how much difference we as individuals can really make with so much environmental damage being caused by corporations who don’t care about long-term consequences. I closed my heart. Have you ever felt like me?
Well, guess what? It’s not too late. Of course the sea level is rising and the icecaps are melting, but every moment we can still do something. Consider that every moment can be our second chance, to open our hearts to what is really possible for our world.
We at KSDG have endeavored to work with a man and his company who are truly dedicated to sustainability. And that means we get to walk our talk! As individuals, we can make a difference, but as corporations, we can make an even more marked difference. Kevin, I, and the others here are taking a deep stand for KSDG to truly walk our talk–to NOT be a company who employs the propaganda of “greenwashing”, of pretending to be green in order to make a sale, or creating green products for our customers but not living in a green way or working in a green way ourselves. This is our chance to actually get behind this vision, re-open our hearts, and live it from the very inside of the company out. And because how we do one thing is how we do everything, it’s time to make that choice here to really be green.
So, while ostensibly I’m speaking about office recycling, I’m really speaking about what it means to truly walk our talk. And I’d love for you to join us. Consider the holographic nature of how we live.. if how we do one thing is how we do everything, we can change something minute for the better and have a grand effect over time.
Sincerely and with an open heart,
Alicia
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