The folks at Healthy Goods have a passion for healthy living. Their mission has always been to find the highest quality, naturopathic, herbal, and whole-food supplements that support the body's innate wisdom to heal. Seeking out the best nutrient-dense, raw, certified-organic, and Non-GMO superfoods from exotic locations around the world, Healthy Goods brings its customers better health the way nature intended - from food.
Healthy Goods is located in Central Oregon, where its warehouse sits nestled between mountain ranges, forests, rivers, lakes, and high desert terrain. It is the perfect location for the adventure-loving, eco-conscious, and health focused team to find inspiration.
Healthy Goods also believes that its responsibility to customer health goes beyond the products it offers. This year, Healthy Goods celebrates its fifth year as a member of the Carbonfree® Business Partnership Program, offsetting the carbon footprint of delivering products to its customers.
Years ago, the Healthy Goods team recognized that their healthy diet options often came from distant lands, thus increasing the carbon footprint due to packaging materials and shipping emissions. In order to reduce these emissions, Healthy Goods took several steps to reuse and recycle shipping cartons and packing materials wherever possible, use recycled paper tape for sealing shipments and recyclable fill materials instead of bubble wrap and Styrofoam peanuts. Then, to neutralize the remaining shipping emissions, Healthy Goods joined the Carbonfree® Business Partnership program five years ago. The Carbonfree® Partner program makes it simple and affordable for Healthy Goods to mitigate its remaining operational emissions, including all shipping emissions and all employee commuting emissions, on an annual basis.
"As individuals, we're extremely excited about the locavore movement. But since Healthy Goods specializes in superfoods that are typically grown in exotic places, our company hasn't been able to participate,” explains Tom Burke, CEO of Healthy Goods. “By purchasing carbon offsets from Carbonfund.org, we're able to import and deliver our foods to the ultimate consumer carbon-free. Our products now have a smaller carbon footprint than foods delivered by farmers to the local farmers' market!"
Healthy Goods also participates in their power company’s Blue SkySM Renewable Energy program, which supports a blend of 100% Pacific Northwest renewable resources from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. This initiative further neutralizes Healthy Goods’ annual operational emissions, and together with the Carbonfree® Business Partnership, underscores Healthy Goods’ leadership position as a truly sustainable provider of healthy raw vegan foods, supplements and personal care products.
Article courtesy of carbonfund.org, found here.
