GreenBusiness Profile
Green Scene Company Specializing in eco friendly household clean-
ing and personal care products Leslie Barrick says she sees herself a green goddess, on a mission to prevent the damage that is inflicted by commercial cleaning products found in most kitchens, bathrooms, and garages. As founder of the ecommerce venture Green Scene Company, Barrick aims to provide people with healthy, environmentally safe alternatives to the dangerously outmoded products that currently dominate the market. “Most consumers are not aware that the soaps, detergents, and cleansers they use every day are made with petroleum-based compounds that cause potent side effects, harming both people and the planet,” says Barrick. “Some of the human side effects include cancers, asthma, al- lergies, and birth defects.” Green Scene Company offers consumers fast and easy ac-
cess to natural products and methods for keeping a house and its inhabitants clean and pollutant free in ways that are gentle, safe and kind to the Earth. Green Scene offers fully natural, bio- degradable cleaning products and equipment for the home, car, boat and RV. There’s also a line of green personal care products such as soaps and lotions for the skin, along with botanically based hair shampoos and conditioners. Barrick, who includes educational outreach as part of the customer service she provides, is currently instituting a roster of webinars to communicate the goals and benefits of a green lifestyle.
For more information visit
GreenSceneCompany.com, or call 914.260.3171.
Hudson Barter Exchange Celebrates Third Anniversary
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evin and Karen Brown, own- ers of the Hudson Barter Exchange (HBX), are cele- brating the end of their third year by adding their 350th member.
Kevin
Brown says membership is open to any business that can take new customers, as well as those with open appointment slots, idle production time, excess inventory, empty seats or vacan- cies. “Businesses can trade what they have for what they need,” he says. “We want to help members take advantage of the huge and growing trade economy. There are 550 retail trade exchanges around the country, and HBX is connected to more than half of them.” Brown says that most businesses are capable of accepting a 5% incremental business in trade without increasing staff or overhead. In the past year, HBX members have traded printing, advertising, dentistry, website help, house painting, accounting, massages and alternative healing, legal help, house cleaning, vacations, sporting event and theatre tickets, landscaping, pho- tography and many other services. “Business owners of any size who trade are at a huge competitive advantage because they can convert trade to marketing awareness, which leads to cash business,” Brown notes. “They also benefit from word-of-mouth referrals that come from within the barter community.”
For more information about the Hudson Barter Exchange, call 914.372.7155, email
kevin@hudsonbarterexchange.com or visit
HudsonBarterExchange.com.
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