RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE NON-TOXIC CLEANING PROJECTS

1) Give workshops/presentations demonstrating green cleaning ingredients and methods. (Lynne Theophanis)

2) Give some thought to deciding on a very good line of Earth-friendly cleaners, see if you can get a good wholesale price on them, and then, as Toni and others do with green coffee during coffee hour, set up a table once a month or so and sell the cleaners? And/or serve as a broker/seller for one or more lines of Earth-friendly cleaners and use the table as an opportunity to market subscriptions for interested people. (Dick Rehberg)

3) Do some investigation of “green wash” environmentally friendly cleaning products and make that information available to UUCB. As you know, there is a lot of “green” PR and marketing that is less than candid. This might include a list of cleaning product corporations to do NOT produce environmentally friendly products. (Dick Rehberg)

4) Give some thought to recruiting several or more “green cleaning product nodes” among the congregation, i.e., persons/households that will try one or more green cleaning products for a month or so and then write a “testimony” about it/them. You could then use those testimonies, when good, to persuade others to buy/use the product. Moreover, this creates great “word of mouth”, one of the most effective ways to market anything. (Dick Rehberg)