Green dog biz

It's pretty hard to run a boarding and day care without damaging the environment. To begin with there is the impact upon the water supply from the cleaning that has to happen round the clock. There is the waste generated from the dogs themselves and the high energy use to launder all those beds and blankets.

Here's what we decided to do about it:

(Note: This is a process that can only improve, it's not perfect. We would love to have solar power and gray water but this is not our building. So there are limits.)

We drive hybrid cars to run our playgroups.

No chemicals are used to clean our facility, just biodegradable soap and

water.

We use biodegradable plastic bags to pick up litter.

All paper products are from recycled paper.

No new products are purchased unless absolutely necessary. See http://sfcompact.blogspot.com/

We get donated used stuff all the time (like beds and blankets...hint, hint) and we can get great things at SCRAP.:http://www.scrap-sf.org/

Obviously, we recycle...duh.

And we make it a point to leave the park with more dog waste than we came in with.

Yay! we just got 2 new trees courtesy of Friends of the Urban Forest:

http://www.fuf.net/about_us/index.html



Yes, we can do more and we will. We just want you all to know we are aware of our impact on the earth. :http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/what_you_need_t.html