Elephant Dung Recycler Wins Co-op America's 2008 Green Business Leader Award

04.12.08 - 06:46 ... source : Co-op America

... Company Finds Innovative Way to Defuse Conflict between Farmers and Elephants in Sri Lanka December 3, 2008 Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA -- Brooklyn, NY company Mr. Ellie Pooh, which sells 100 percent handmade journals, stationery, office supplies and various grades of paper made partially from Sri Lankan elephant dung, is the Co-op America's 2008 Green Business Leader Award winner. The award was presented at the Green Business Conference in San Francisco on November 13, 2008 by the 2007 Green Business Leader Award winner, Organic Valley. Awarded since 2003, the Green Business Leader Award recognizes the extraordinary leadership efforts of one business that has used its position in the marketplace to organize consumers and businesses together to build a more socially just and ecologically sustainable economy. Sri Lanka is home to about one out of 10 of the world's estimated 40,00 ...» Next (HTML)