Years ago in Western Australia, while sitting in Gino’s on the incredibly static, but famed environment known as “The cappuccino strip” I happened to stumble into a conversation about environmental changes that were occurring in the west (note that this was long before the phrase “Global warming” was coined). This conversation’s focus was on the change in the weather patterns as they related to the Southwest parts of Western Australia.
This is the point at which I began thinking about the effects we are having on our environment and the consequences of those effects, it didn’t take much research to come to the conclusion that in general we use too much & that the shift that we must all be forced to make had begun long ago in the western part of Australia and has yet to begin in my homeland (USA) and my hometown (NYC).
If I only had the information then, that I have now, perhaps I could have lent a hand to changing the attitudes around me… those are just wishes… what could I do?
Now I do have much more information (thanks to resources like Eco buy, Greenpages, SOS save our selves and many others) & a platform albeit limited… so this is why I love my job!
Teachers love the idea of a portable unit with markers they can refill instead of throw away. 
