Green Tree Planning

Wedding season is upon us. As you make plans for your special day, take the opportunity to show friends and family how fun and beautiful a sustainable lifestyle can be. Here are a few tips to consider when planning your green wedding:
1. The ring
Weddings begin with the ring. A green wedding is no different. Some [...]

In today’s atmosphere of increasing environmental concern, we are realizing that there is no part of our lives that doesn’t impact the world in which we live. Even something as seemingly innocuous as enjoying a cup of coffee or tea impacts our environment. Coffee is the world’s most commonly traded commodity after crude oil. And [...]

Spring is finally here. That means summer vacations can’t be far behind. As you plan your summer travels around Utah and beyond, take a few moments to consider how you can save energy and reduce waste as you travel. Here is a list of tips to get you started.
Before you go:

Use electronic tickets when booking [...]

You already know if newspapers, tin cans, or plastic bottles get picked up on your curb for recycling, but what about similar items?There are some hard-to-know-what-to-do-with items such as phone books, aluminum foil, and aerosol cans that might leave you wondering. Recycling these items might be easier than you thought and they may even be [...]

The Park City Green Drinks chapter will be hosting an Earth Day Celebration Thursday, April 22, 2010 at Maxwell’s East Coast Eatery at the Newpark Hotel, 1456 Newpark Blvd., Kimball Junction in Park City. Times are from 6:00 PM ‘til 9ish. Green Drinks is an Environment Networking group with active chapters in over 600 cities [...]

Avoid processed foods: If you needed any more reasons to resist processed: It takes 10 calories of fossil fuel to produce 1 calorie of processed food. Similarly, producing frozen food requires about 10 times more energy than making fresh food does.
Buy locally produced products: The average food item travels 1,200 miles to get to your [...]

Often ignored when it comes to greening your life is your dog or cat. This is an especially important issue in an environmentally aware town like Park City. But there are some easy ways to make sure that your dog and/or cat leaves a lighter impact on the environment..

Rescuing a dog or cat from a [...]

Our landfills are faced with the growing problem of e-waste, the millions of pounds of old electronic equipment that is making its way into our nation’s waste stream. But there is a way everyone can help by donating still usable computer equipment to schools, charities, churches and other nonprofits.
But donating used computer equipment is not is [...]

I principally use trust based techniques to facilitate (i) asset preservation, (ii) consistent and competent asset management, (iii) achievement of long term investment goals and objectives, (iv) consistent and competant management of  beneficiary distributions, (v) beneficiary access to capital for proper purposes, (vi) the incorporation of trustor’s personal values into the distribution plan of each [...]