Green Industries Initiative

After an inspirational keynote address by Wayne Zink at the recent Indiana Finance Authority Sustainability Workshop, it reminded me that not all green industries news is legislative and legal.  Wayne, the CEO of Endangered Species Chocolate (ESC), reminded attendees at the workshop that you can also do well by doing good.  ESC has a core value of Reverence for Life, which is modeled after renowned humanitarian Albert Schweitzer’s ethic of the same name.  ESC believes all life is precious and deserving of our respect, kindness and care, and this Reverence for Life ethic is at the heart of each our business practices.  They have colorful wrappers to serve not only to increase awareness of species currently listed as threatened or endangered on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Endangered Species List, but to inspire proactive conservation for animals confronting universal struggles such as habitat encroachment, poaching and pollution. Their products aims to honor all flora and fauna that share this planet.  Luckily, their chocolate is easy to find and produced locally so you can buy it on one of your regular shopping trips to Whole Foods or Target without an extra trip to impact carbon emissions.

Maybe it is being eight months pregnant, but at the top of my list with chocolate is cheese, oh, and ice cream, so I'll also recommend another Ice Miller client, Traders Point Creamery (TPC).  TPC is a family owned artisan dairy located in Zionsville, Indiana.  Traders Point's herd of Brown Swiss spend all of their time on pastures and they milk 60 to 90 cows each day throughout the year. TPC also purchases milk from a sister farm in Southern Indiana.  Both farms are certified organic by the USDA.  They never use synthetic fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides on our land and its cows never receive antibiotics or synthetic hormones.  They produce pure fresh creamline whole milk, chocolate milk, plain and fruit yogurts.

I've recently learned of a natural beef producer as well.  If you are a devote carnivore you can still buy locally!  Consider Lone Pine Farms, Moody Meats, Inc., for locally raised product or custom processing.  Add an organic vegetable as a side from the Traders Point Creamery Farmer's Market or one of the other markets around the city, serve with the cheese and have ESC chocolate for desert for a complete summer meal.  See you at the Creamery!