Eco-Edge: Backing into green
Mark Lazar shares his thoughts on the CPSIA
Mark Lazar -- Kids Today, 1/15/2009 9:08:00 AM
The Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act is going into effect as you read this.
This may mean higher costs for manufacturers and thus higher retails for the consumer. How can this be, when dollars are in short supply and jobs are being lost in record numbers? It doesn't seem like the right time to make these new moves for improving the health of our products and paying closer attention to their effects on children.
I say, if we are going to take the hit sooner or later, I'd rather take it now, when everything seems to be up for grabs anyway. Let's just fix it all at once. Let's learn our lessons well. And the only way to do that is to get a good dose of , "Hey, wake up! Some things need to change."
They need to change in the economy, in our political landscape and in our global understanding. Getting consumer confidence back is not up to Wall Street, it is up to consumers, and it involves learning the lessons of over buying, over spending and thinking it will never end. When we come out of this economic and emotional crisis, I believe we will have a better understanding of what we all need to do to survive and prosper in the New Global World!
When we come out of this global haze, the United States will have been reinvented, just as we started as a new nation, with new ideas, hopes and dreams. When we come out of this haze, we will emerge greener, healthier and happier, for we will have rediscovered our nation's original purpose, and we will make it our own, and fashion it to reflect the needs of today. We will realize that there is prosperity and profit in making sure that what we sell, manufacture and profess, addresses the needs of ourselves and our children and their well being. We will know the true meaning of Green, and that is Life.
Let us not fret and worry about new legislation and how it might effect the bottom line. We are, most of us, near the bottom line as it is. I would rather crawl back to profitability with a new paradigm of sustainability and earth and people friendly practices, and emerge with an eye to the future.
So, we will all back into being green willingly or kicking and screaming, but green we will all become, because it will be clear that it is the best way to survive.
The Green Guru
Here's Hoping This Finds You Greening Up!
Mark Lazar
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