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Clearwater Florida Homes Find Living Green Now Easier with Home Depot
November 1st, 2007 Categories: Clearwater Florida, Community News, Green Living
Clearwater Florida is Getting Greener
Clearwater FLorida Real Estate News– Today Clearwater home owners are looking for ways to live green and be more “Eco Friendly” - from recycling to using green products when possible. The desire is often there before the products. Local Clearwater residents often tell me they’d like to be more “eco-friendly” at home but they aren’t sure where to start.
Well, now it’s going to be even easier for everyone to find more environmentally friendly products in Clearwater, Florida and everywhere else that has a neighborhood Home Depot.
Why? Because Home Depot is working aggressively to fully implement its new Eco Options program. They are working to get the best eco-friendly products into their stores for their customers. They invited all the suppliers of their 176,000 products to submit any “green products” they have for consideration in their Eco-Options program. They were surprise when their suppliers came back with over 60,000 products for consideration.
Home Depot’s goal was to find 6,000 products out of the 60,000 submitted that their customers would want to find in their local Home Depot store. With so many options the Home Depot Eco Options team went to work determining the “real green products” from the “voodoo” ones.
In the end, “Only 2500 of the products have made the cut to date. The proucts selected had to pass the muster with a man who fertilizes his own home garden with a liquefied worm paste product packaged in recycled soda bottles and fills his swimming pool with saltwater to avoid putting chlorine into the environment,” said Ron Jarvis, a Home Depot senior vice-president who oversees the Eco Options program.
Home Depot Eco Options for Clearwater Florida
What are some of the Eco Option products coming to a Tampa Bay Home Depot near you..
- Front Load Washers that use less water;
- Herbs & Vegetables sold in biodegradable pots that release nutrients into the soil;
- A Flush mounted light that generates 70% less heat and uses 2/3s less energy than standard lighting;
- None of the wood products they purchase come from the endangered regions worldwide;
- Solar powered landscape lighting;
- Paints that discharge fewer pollutants;
Home Depot Green Standards
Home Depot is committed to working with the Scientific Certification Systems, a private company that audits and certifies company “eco friendly” claims and they are helping Home Depot develop it’s green standards to include:
- the products environmental record over it’s entire product life-cycle;
- understanding the products it’s efficiency;
- as it relates to the products longevity;
- how sustainable is the production of the product;
- how can it be recycled when it’s no longer needed;
I applaud Home Depot for working to establish meaningful green standards. This is one of the challenges facing “eco friendly” consumers today - how to really determine how effectively green a product really is. I’m looking forward to learning more about eco friendly solutions we can implement in our home.
More Home Depot Eco Options Information
I’m curious, how Green is your home or your home town today?
Home Depot’s can found in and around Clearwater, Florida 33764, 33761
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Submitted Cyndee & Jack Haydon, Clearwater Florida Realtors.
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Clearwater Florida Real Estate Agents experience Natural Florida
October 23rd, 2007 Categories: Boating, Clearwater Florida, Fishing, Green Living, Pinellas County, Tampa Beach Living, Things to do, Tierra Verde Florida
Camping under the Stars | Pinellas County Florida | Ft Desoto Park
My family takes along weekend every year to go primative – well ok, to me primitive is 3 days without “real estate” and without my laptop however, we did have electricity and running water at Ft DeSoto Park’s popular campground located in the southern most point in Pinellas County – just take Tierra Verde till it ends at the #1 Beach in the US (in 2005).
I joke about being on Survivor and my one luxury item is my hammock that can be thrown up anywhere under the canopy of cabbage palms. The good news is that we actually have 3 so we create a special hangout when we go.
Ft Desoto Park in Pinellas County offers some of the best Florida camping. You have the largest boat ramp in Pinellas county (8+ ramps) so it’s great for boating, jet skiing and fishing.
Then you have easy water access for kayaking and windsurfing and if that’s not enought the Great Florida Birding Trail runs through it so it’s great for birding and their is a fishing pier and amazing beaches.
Now if you have a dog in your life, not to worry, Ft Desoto Park has a Paw Playground and even a rare Dog Beach – the Paw Playground was voted one of the Top 10 in the US in 2006.
We saw incredible sunsets, nature up close and even the racoons think they’re family. At $30–$40/night to camp it’s a real bargain too.
It was a great time and believe it or not the world of Tampa Bay Real Estate was fine and waiting for me when I returned to it on Monday!
It’s an important reminder that we are lucky enough to call Clearwater Florida home and we need to take time to enjoy all the great things it has to offer – like eveyone else – that’s why we live in Tampa Bay – or as we like to call it ~ Paradise! 
My Camping Photos from Ft Desoto Park
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