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2006 Western Pennsylvania Environmental Award Finalist
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Honorees at the Western Pennyslvania Environmental Awards
(Kitty Tuscano, Natures Way Market- Back Row, Center)
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The Western Pennsylvania Environmental Awards Program recognizes and honors outstanding achievements of organizations, businesses, schools, and individuals in a wide range of environmental initiatives throughout the region. These awards pay tribute to those who have demonstrated a commitment to environmental excellence, leadership, and accomplishment in their respective fields. By sponsoring these awards, Dominion and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council encourage the community to emulate the achievements of the successful nominees, thereby promoting innovative environmental efforts and enhancing the quality of life in western Pennsylvania.
This year Nature’s way was a finalist in the “Business” category. In this area finalists go beyond regulatory requirements to demonstrate the highest of standards of achievement in such areas as environmental management, technology development, emissions reduction, pollution prevention or waste minimization, community outreach, recycling, product or service innovation, energy conservation, or other initiatives to enhance the environment.
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Nature's Way Joins 1% For the Planet
 In 2005 Nature’s Way became one of the first businesses to participate in the 1% For the Planet campaign, an alliance of businesses donating 1% of the net sales to the natural environment. This resulted in $14,000 donation to the Conemaugh Valley Conservancy (CVC), whose mission is to promote the conservation and preservation of natural, historic, and cultural resources and to encourage prudent land-use practices in the Kiski-Conemaugh River Basin. Additional monies were provided to the Mountain Watershed Association for abandoned mine drainage clean-ups.
The Nature’s Way donation serves as an example to other business owners on how easily and directly they can affect ecology,,, even if the nature of their business is unrelated. Using Nature’s Way as a leading partner, the CVC is mounting a campaign to raise awareness about the role of business in environmental advocacy, with an emphasis on how environmental stewardship can lead to a healthier economy.
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