Key Idea: Go Green With CautionUsing re-cycled materials raises the cost of goods needed to make the popular fleece products. |
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Become a green manufacturer but only if you think your customers will pay for it. Being "green" can be expensive. Be careful. You can almost hear the song being sung, "Green, green, we're green, I say, but who's gonna pay the bill?" (Excuse us, Christy Minstrals, for the abuse of your lyrics.) But the question needs an answer: "Who is going to pay those added costs of being green?" Can these costs be allocated to part of the marketing-sales? Will the potential customer pay a little more? Will you take a little less? A: Business is tough. Margaret perhaps has a moral imperative to keep the doors open. She has a moral imperative to pay her bills. She has a moral imperative to be fair to her team members. And now, there are some backslider environmentalists who claim that we are spending more resources collecting, sorting and converting old plastics than we do processing the raw materials (oil) to create new. It is a difficult issue; the answers are not easy or straightforward, and we are open to everyone's contribution to this dialogue. Think about itHow have you changed your ways of doing things to be more conservative with natural resources? Have you made these changes without a government mandate? Do your new ways of doing things attract new customers? Clip from: Jagged Edge Mountain GearEnjoy your summer while you have it! Winter will return! Telluride, Colorado and Moab, Utah: Deep-seated within every American is the dream of starting and owning a business. Most of us are barely aware that this concept is deeply ingrained in our culture. The modern concept of a corporation actually has its roots in the American revolution. This drive to start a business -- to incorporate under a name -- mystifies much of the world and it has a lot to do with one's sense of purpose or "calling" and also one's process of self-actualization. Jagged Edge Mountain Gear (MQ)Margaret Quenemoen, Founder
223 E. Colorado Ave. Visit our web site: http://www.jagged-edge-telluride.com
Business Classification: Year Founded: 1991 Go Green With CautionMARGARET: All of our fleece is made from recycled plastic soda bottles. And they cut it into shards, and then from there, it goes into almost a fiberglass-looking type material. From there, it's spun, actually, into the fleece. And we used to just buy our fabric from wherever we could get it. But once we found out that recycled fabric was available, we had no choice but to use it. Not a member yet? Learn! Be empowered! Join us! |
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