Moving can take a real toll on the environment. Think of all the cardboard boxes, the truck(s), the frequent opening of doors to climate-controlled rooms and the products and solutions you use to clean the whole place down for the next tenants because you're an awesome person bucking for canonization.
Step one on reducing your impact -- the easiest step -- is recycling. And it's not too hard to find earth-friendly cleaning products. But the truck (if you can afford one)? Enter Mean Green Trucking & Transport, New York-based environmentally-friendly movers (and other earth-friendly companies). Brian from Mean Green says "The whole idea is to minimize pollution by using alternative energy. It is clear that if the whole trucking industry does the same then the catastrophic effects of our oil-obsessed culture would be greatly reduced. All of our trucks have been converted to run on used veggie oil which we acquire from various restaurants in NYC. The office runs completely on solar power from what I understand."
But Mean Green takes it to another level: "When I first started with them they were into hiring only vegetarians, but that since has changed,” Brian says. Vegetables, hide your children! Here comes Mean Green, the biggest vegetable and vegetable-oil consumin' company this side of the Hudson! Plus, they're going around delivering vegetables: "Lately I have been delivering vegan food to an elementary school in Harlem as part of a healthy school lunch program."
