November 2009

Workout Warriors on a mid-day run over jagged peaks and parched landscapes go further and faster when properly hydrated.

To avoid bonking in a baron battlefield try our juicy booster the Thirsty Camel its loaded with hydropower to help you go the distance in the desert!

1. Plug in your Power Blender (Champion Choice- Vitamix ‘the V8 of blenders’)

2. Bung in some big size chunks of pineapple (with a V8 engine you don’t waste time dicing)

3. Crack open a green coconut and pour into your V-8 tank (need help busting your nuts try using a Coco Tap)

* The Coco Tap is a ‘marine grade’ stainless steel tube with a sharp spike at one end, designed specifically for cracking green nuts)

4. Finally add a splash of the secret ingredient (Nature’s Goodness Australia Acai Power juice concentrate)

* Açaí Power is a potent source of antioxidants – substances which protect the body from the harmful effects of free radicals and oxidative damage.

 

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The growing demand for home interiors that embrace innovative design over consumption construction has the landscape of your living room destined for greener pastures.

Your feet can now fall on soft, stain resistant and sustainable surfaces as carpeting manufacturers join the eco movement to produce environmentally friendly flooring made from natural, renewable fibres that have been manufactured using energy efficient equipment.

Carpets made of renewable or recycled resources such as corn and recycled pet plastics provide conscious consumers with a variety of options.

CornCarpet is based on breakthrough technology that enables man-made fibers to be derived from corn when most other carpet fibers (Nylon, Polyester, Olefin) are made from petroleum oil. Carpeting made from corn limits the impact on earth’s natural resources and comes in many styles from plush solid colors to Berber available as wall to wall carpets, area rugs and tiles.

How is Corn made into Carpet?
1. Farmers harvest the corn and send it to a milling plant
2. The milling plants grind & cook the corn into starch
3. The corn starch is then converted into sugar
4. The sugar is converted with chemical reactions to plastic
5. The plastic is melted and forced through molds that create very fine fibers
6. The fibers are spun into yarn then into carpeting

Environmental Benefits
Built in Stain Resistance – reducing chemical treatments.
Reduced CO2 Emissions – from the elimination of petroleum.
Biodegradable – a spray can be applied to breakdown fibres quickly.

Mohawk Flooring developed a manufacturing process to turn PET containers into carpet. The making of everSTRAND™ starts out by sorting PET bottles and then grinding them into small chips. The cleaned chips are then melted down and extruded into fiber before being spun into carpet yarn. Mohawk also uses the labels and caps from the PET containers to make the carpet core, the roll that carpet is wrapped around on showroom floors. According to their website, since 1999 they have recycled over 17 billion plastic bottles and that’s saved landfills 1 billion pounds of waste.

Shaw Flooring supports environmental stewardship through their Shaw Green Edge initiative a “Cradle to Cradle” approach that utilizes carpet recycling centers across the country. These centers collect old carpeting, which is then manufactured back into new carpeting. Right now, Shaw has 32 recycling centers across the U.S. with plans to add more. They expect to collect close to 300 million pounds each year and that’s the equivalent to a 12’ roll of carpet over 10,000 miles long!

 

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