About

Sometimes writing a Green Blog Isn’t Always So Easy

Othello Tunnels, near Hope, BC

I had thought for some time that I should blog about something I truly care about.  I ghost blog for others about what they care about, I write content for advertisements trying to get potential customers to care … but I never get a chance to talk about what I really care about.  I can’t always say that I’m 100% sustainable when it comes to choices I make at home or in my business decisions. Sometimes the cheap plastic-straight-from-China is the only thing available, or is so cheap that I have to give in to a budget conscious client.  I do believe that if each of us gets a little more conscious everyday about the choices we make  –whether economically or environmentally-  it will eventually become easy and habitual to be green.

A Brief History:

7 years old and a book called “Kids for Saving the Earth.” A workbook giving ideas to take care of the planet – my first and only initiative at the time – SAVE THE TREES. This was in 1989.  And so, long story short, we planted trees outside my elementary school in Coquitlam, BC, once called Montgomery Elementary. We even got some press for our event!

A Vegetarian teenager, I drove my parents crazy trying to recycle all of the paper, cans, and plastic that I could.  30 hour famines, charities, student council etc – you name it I did it. 

In University I learned that the earth was more polluted than I imagined, that the mass media was lying and that the Green Party needed volunteers.

My first real job out of University was with an environmentally sustainable cosmetics company (sounds like an oxymoron having just finished makeup artistry school which I attended at the same time as SFU). The company in question, AVEDA, gave me hope that things could change just by consistently doing small things.

And so here I am, with my own marketing company called Polished Promotions and a sudden urge to educate and motivate others to choose greener ways – even when it isn’t all that easy.