Word: environmental
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...restaurant has no specific initiatives for Earth Month, but co-owner Adam Penn said that Veggie Planet will be working with Cambridge Local First—a network of locally-owned businesses—in the next month to conduct an environmental audit to assess its practices. Penn said that the restaurant currently composts and recycles, and its vegetarian menu is good for the environment, since less water, land, and energy are used than for meat production...
“There are some business owners who really do care about the environment, but there are plenty of the others who see it as an opportunity to market themselves,” said Penn, adding that he did not disapprove of businesses selling themselves as green.
“It’s great that doing what’s good for the environment is good for business as well,” he said.
“It shows that they care about the environment,” said Gorbatai. “But I don’t know if it will have an impact.”
Rachael Solem, the owner of the Irving House and Harding House, two nearby bed and breakfasts with long-standing green initiatives, said that there was a close relationship between her own philosophy regarding the environment and the way she conducts her businesses.