Comments on: The latest on Home Depot’s Eco Options green products and Ron Jarvis

By: mike paquette

mike paquette — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:34:27 +0000

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a dark color could very well contain over 500 voc parts per gallon. ( “clean air” paint needs to be under 50 parts per gallon.)
ben moore is the only paint company in the world with a voc free waterborne colorant system, hence they are the only company that can deliver a 0 voc paint in any color.

By: fred smilek

fred smilek — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:24:56 +0000

Thats smart whats the price on it

By: Ron Jarvis

Ron Jarvis — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:09:15 +0000

Gary,

At The Home Depot we stive for excellent customer service and we vow to research and promote products that have less of an impact on the environment. We are not perfect at either of these but spend a lot of our resources for continual improvement. Dictating to foreign countries on which energy resource they will choose to supply their citizens is not our expertise. To date no one from Chile has called and asked us our opinion.

Our wood purchases from Chile (less than 5% of our wood supply) are from plantations 1000 miles from the proposed Pantagonia Dam project.

If the dams were being created to benefit Home Depot or to supply products to the Home Depot we would quickly join the dialogue but the proposed Dams are in no way related to the harvest or supply of products to the Home Depot (we do acknowledge that there is minor joint ownership in the wood companies and proposed dam construction companies). It is up to the Chilean Government and citizens to decide what source they use for power in the future.

I understand that as the California campaign manager you must create visibilty for your cause and I hope you find a line of communication to the Chilean Energy and Environmental Departments.

After reading your request I wanted to save David the trouble of a second interview.

By: Gary Graham Hughes

Gary Graham Hughes — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:32:20 +0000

Hello!

I tried writing to the address info@getwithgreen.com to advise you that you should look more closely at the growing campaign to make Home Depot accountable to their green image and signed environmental agreements.

Home Depot has been approached by the most important Socially Responsible Investment fund in the country asking them to take a stand and stop the damming of free and wild rivers in the Chilean Patagonia. Home Depot is directly connected to this controversy.

I recommend looking at the International Rivers website (www.internationalrivers.org/patagonia) and seeing the letter at the trilliuminvest.com and consider doing another interview with Ron Jarvis, if not simply asking your customers to do what thousands of people have already done–stop shopping at Home Depot!

Sincerely getting with green,

Gary

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