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Green Business - Corporate Initiatives In Focus

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IKEA Home Furnishings

Anders Berglund is the Co-Owner of IKEA Seattle, the region's most popular home furnishings retailer.

Earth Share of Washington recently interviewed Mr. Berglund about IKEA environmental initiatives. Learn more about IKEA's leadership in the areas of resource conservation & sustainable forestry.

For $1 per pay period, you can...

  • remove 60 pounds of trash from a beach, catalogue it, and identify who put it there
  • feed one endangered Aplomado Falcon for ten days
  • print and distribute 20 mercury thermometer brochures in English or Spanish telling about the potential health risks from exposure to mercury in broken thermometers and how to clean up and dispose of broken thermometers safely
  • help alert residents to pollution levels at area beaches, so that beachgoers can make safe choices about where to swim

For $2 per pay period, you can...

  • buy one acre of unprotected tropical rainforest and help assure that natural areas vital to our global climate and the protection of diverse species are protected
  • save 18 feet of trail for bicycling, horseback riding, running or hiking
  • furnish one hour of expert training in land protection for a citizen's group or land trust interested in natural areas preservation in their communities
  • underwrite staff time to provide customized assistance by phone or e-mail to an individual directly affected by exposures to toxic substances in the air, food, water or soil, or to one who is seeking to prevent such exposures

For $5 per pay period, you can...

  • get a 10-person volunteer work party into the field for a day of annual maintenance of a three mile trail
  • donate 15 books or videos about plant care to a public library in Washington State
  • purchase 25 rolls of film to help document and report suspicious activities and unusual discharges discovered out on the water
  • furnish all classes of a high school with charts and guides about alternatives to commonly used hazardous household products
  • plant 260 cedar trees for a habitat restoration project

For $10 per pay period, you can...

  • reforest Central American land with 2,100 seedlings which, when planted, reduce soil erosion and improve family nutrition through gardening
  • feed 2 orphaned bear cubs for 6 weeks
  • buy 1900 daffodil bulbs for school children to plant
  • pay for 6 months of an 800 hotline about Hanford Nuclear Reservation cleanup
  • assure that extensive field research can be conducted on one pollution complaint that a government agency doesn't have time to investigate

For $20 per pay period, you can...

  • purchase one spotting scope for monitoring released California Condors, Aplomado Falcons, Hawaiian songbirds, and Harpy Eagles and monitor their movements
  • provide rain gear for 20 youths on an "Inner City Outing" trip to the wilderness
  • buy an expert toxicologist's time to respond to a community group's need for detailed technical review of air or water quality test results, helping them interpret the data's implications for the risks to their health