Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow are part of the River Towns on the Hudson. Quaint and charming, they are also business-minded and progressive. I knew our village had a Planning Board and Council, a Mayor and Trustees. I didn’t know we had an Environmental Advisory Council or an Architectural Review Board. Last month, I was invited [...]
Category Archives: Going Green
Tea leaves in Composts
Used tea leaves are great for composts. All over England, tea leaves are routinely emptied into rose bushes and gardens thrive. I’ve been searching for that solution for our Tea Room and may have finally hit upon a serendipitous partnership. While at the tearoom last Sunday, a casual conversation about Going Green unearthed this wonderful [...]
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October is Fair Trade Month
Fair Trade coffee is probably better known than Fair Trade Tea but slowly, the movement is gaining awareness. To me, organic and fair trade are related. But organic is for myself and the earth, fair trade benefits other people. Fair Trade helps someone a world away who made the product. In our wholesale company, to [...]
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Carbon Free…
This past week, we partnered with Carbonfund.org. What is this? Well, for all those of us who are striking out on our own trying to reduce our carbon footprint, lower our use of energy, recycle and use more green materials, there are still some things we can do nothing about. To compensate for that, we [...]
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Going Green – Update
SILVER TIPS TEA ROOM IS NOW USING 100% GREEN POWER! We signed up for a combination of Wind and low-impact Hydro Energy through our local utility company. This program is available to residence and business users but strangely, we had to go looking for it. In addition, through yet another partnership with our local utility [...]
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