Green Giant has worked to reduce its environmental footprint through many measures including:
- Reducing the amount of land and water needed to grow vegetables
- Packing vegetables in smaller, lighter cans, so it takes less fuel to deliver them to supermarket shelves
- Utilizing traditional seed breeding methods over the last 35 years to double the amount of sweet corn grown on an acre of land
- Teaming up with growers to install a more efficient irrigation system that can reduce water use by more than a million gallons a year
- Switching to more earth-friendly paperboard to package frozen vegetables, saving approximately 54,000 trees annually in the process.
Green Giant is now celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day by giving $200,000 to The Nature Conservancy to help fund an innovative project that will encourage greener farming practices to repair and protect a natural treasure - the Root River, one of Minnesota´s (home to Green Giant) best trout streams. To learn more about Green Giant´s sustainability program or make a donation to The Nature Conservancy, visit http://www.GreenGiant.com/sustainability during the month of April.
One random winner will receive:
One VIP coupon valid for a free package of Green Giant frozen vegetables, in addition to a mini herb garden, an eco-friendly bamboo utensil set, and a 100% recyclable grocery tote (not in the pic but I used it this morning!).
To enter:
Just leave a comment sharing what you are doing to acknowledge Earth Day or what changes you have made to decrease your carbon footprint.
Just leave a comment sharing what you are doing to acknowledge Earth Day or what changes you have made to decrease your carbon footprint.
Extra entries:
Leave an extra comment if you follow/subscribe to my blog.
Giveaway closes on May 2nd at midnight.
Winner will have 48 ours to respond to my email. Please make sure you have a public profile or leave your email address in your comment. If I can't contact you-you can't win!!
Green Giant provided this gift pack and is sponsoring the giveaway via MyBlogSpark. In complying with the FTC, FDA, IRS, and IRA guidelines-I must disclose that I received this giftpack as well. Thanks ya'll!
111 comments:
very cool on volunteering...we recycle as much as we can. we had the boys help us make bins and they got to paint them which gets them bought into the process and all...
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We're recycling and planting a garden!
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I'm a blog follower.
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we have started composting - a bit smelly but earth friendly!
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those Green Giant commercials use to scare the SHIT out of me when i was a kid...
I bought some totes to reduce my plastic bag usage. and that bamboo set is fun
i follow. holla holla
We do recycle and have our own organic garden!
I'm a subscriber.
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cdziuba@aol.com I bought a bike and now bike to many local errands!
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I will bike to work on Thursday
Also maybe buy a tree or 2 later
Denis
Happy Earth Day!
I'm taking my kids for a walk in a local forest and just talking about all the beauties of the Earth and explaining how this local forest benefits from all the green things we do (recycle, use cloth bags, drive less, grow local food, etc)
thanks
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I'm a new blog follower too :)
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I bought some Sun Chips the other day and the bag they came in is 100% compostable. That's pretty cool.
We started to recycyle this year
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I follow your blog
Oh I love those wooden spoons! I love planting herbs, it's pretty much all we really have room for on the patio, but this year we planted some sunflowers too. I'm looking forward to seeing how they turn out.
WE DID a tree planting and a cleanup
walking when i can instead of driving
I try to bring reusable bags to grocery store instead of using tons of plastic bags everytime I go.
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I am following now!
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I always take reusable bags to the grocery store now. The plastic ones are just so nasty. I also just planted our garden with my boys. Thanks for the giveaway!
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I've planted many assorted flowers.
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looks good
We recyle and I have just started composting and gardening!
Thanks for the chance.
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We are using refillable water bottles.
We no longer use plastic water bottles or plastic shopping bags
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We're recycling and planting a garden
We now use reusable shopping bags and green cleaners.
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We recycle, use cfl bulbs and use our own shopping bags whenever possible.
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I became a follower=)
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We changed our lightbulbs to the curlicue kind 3 years ago (no burnouts), we recycle everything we can, we use cloth grocery bags, and we repurpose what we can't recycle. We also don't shop as much!
I planted a garden
We started recycling this year..it's super easy and amounts to about half our garbage being recycled now!
remember the first earth day when I was in elementary school....we planted a tree as a class project. a few years ago I went and visited that tree...nice to see it still there...healthy even though all of us 10 yr olds had tugged and pulled it this way and which so long ago.
now what do i do....small things, compost heap, reusable bags, our own travel cups, cloth napkins instead of paper towels, save all the newspapers...we are using them for insullation in our home...this and that...to table scraps for dog food (in addition to the dry food). Oh ask me about leftover stew?
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We planted some veggies and did yard work on Earth Day.
I'm not working so I'm not driving everyday anymore.
Thanks for the giveaway >^..^<
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We added plants to our vegetable garden and flower garden and took a nature walk for earth day.
We spent time outdoors on Earth Day. We're trying to use less energy and switch to organic products when we can.
I have started composting
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we have a compost pile
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To decrease my carbon footprint I use reusable cloth shopping bags.
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We use a rain barrel for all of our outdoor watering needs
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The change we have made is to use reusable shopping bags. debsweeps4@yahoo.com
We planted a tree.
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We spent the day at the park. We also try and recycle as much as possible.
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We are planting a garden to grow as much of our seasonal produce as we can.
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We planted tame blackberries in honor of earth day.
We recycle and use reusable shopping bags
We compost as much as possible and take our cans to a scrap yard for recycling. In both cases it saves us money. The scrap people give us money and the compost is better than fertilizer. Also, our weekly garbage is very much reduced.
On Earth Day my family helped clean up our neighborhood. We are trying to recycle more this year too.
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We bicycle almost everywhere in the nice weather!
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We are trying to recycle more than ever.
shawn113(at)hotmail(dot)com
We planted 12 new trees in our yard last Tuesday, and I actually had my bicycle fixed so that I can ride instead of drive to all the close places that I go.
We recycle our metal cans,newspaper and plastic trash.
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doing a beach clean up and everyday we recycle and use the freecycle group to get and give reusable items and keep them out of the land fills
singermagic1(at)yahoo(dot)com
We've started recycling & using the bus more often.
Ellen
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We have started walking to our local grocery store when we need items, instead of always driving.
We've been recycling and trying to eliminate our use of disposable paper products and replacing them with reusable items. Thanks so much! pamelashockley(AT)netscape(DOT)net
We take our own bags to the store-out with the plastic!
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We have been using stainless steel water bottles instead of plastic ones.
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For Earth day- conserve water
and we recyle and re-use discards and have energy efficient light bulbs to reduce our carbon footprint.
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I am subscribed to your blog now.
I walked on earth day and picked up liter and recycled it.
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We bought good bikes so that the whole family can ride all over our small town.
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We are walking to more places, I am growing a bigger garden.
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I am a email subscriber.
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I am a gfc follower.
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I've stopped using paper napkins and towels. Instead we use cotton towels and napkins to reduce the amount of waste that we have.
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thanks.
We decided to try and plant a garden this year.
We spent Earth Day starting our garden. We are going to plant veggies for the first time.
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I don't buy bottle water and I take a bag when I got shopping
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Last year I started recycling and it has cut my trash production in half. I also started carrying reusable bags to the stores recently.
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We plant our own garden every year.
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We planted 2 trees in the yard
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We planted a tree
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We stopped ALL the wastefulness of buying bottled water. We grow our own organic herbs and some veggies. We always recycle and make a point to purchase recycled products. This spring we also started a compost heap.
I am a blog subscriber via Google Reader
Thanks for the giveaway...we continue to scale back the use of our vehicles, take public transportaion or bike most days, and really only use car on the weekend.
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we recycle and on earth day i planted lots of perennials in my garden :)
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I'm using only natural products.
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follow your blog.
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We do anything we can to reduce our carbon footprint including using CFLs, reusable shopping bags and eating less meat which helps a ton more than most people know!
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I'm following you via google connect
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I grow my own veggies.
we went to the Earth Day celebration in washington dc
We have planted a garden!
Thanks - Sarah Z
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I am growing my own food.
I recycle cans and bottles.
I subscribed to your blog.
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