Main Street Stores Don't Think Green Part II

06/19/2008 07:30 Mountain Time

I wrote this article about a year and a half ago and thought it would be appropriate as I took a recent stroll on Main Street and didn't see much difference. Also, being a trader in the financial markets and understanding the pain that high energy and commodity prices are causing the consumer, I thought it would be appropriate to stress the importance of "environmental comon sense".

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While walking up Main Street on a bitter winter day, I was thinking about a recent editorial regarding what park City would be like wihtout snow. This winter we have waited and waited for the snow to come and it finally has! This winter has also provided us with our first Save Our Snow initiative and countless global warming "warnings".

While I walked, I was astonished to see numberous businesses with their doors held OPEN with door stops and wire hangers, inviting shoppers. I stepped into one of these businesses and felt a blast of warm air. Are local business owners thinking green?

Other stores with their doors wide open have stickers on the windows showing off their "support" for other green initiatives. Even worse offenders are the multi-national corporations with stores on Main street that sell organic cotton shirts and "combat global warming" books.

Main Street businesses' doors are open, but their minds are shut. Keeping your door open with the heat blasting or the air conditioner running (summer time is no different) is a deplorable way to attract customers. What are the chances that the managers behind these decisions are inattentive in their own homes as well?

Is our town really that concerned with global warming or, more importantly, using common sense? Many businesses on Main Street obviously are not.

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