Eco Trees

It is only natural and intuitive to relate the production of the most common baverage on the planet, tea, to a free-pollution and "green" environment. This is the idea behind the ethical business principles of Traditional Medicinals(R) practice, an organic medicinal tea company with nearly 35 years of environmental stewardship.

According to co-founder Drake Sandler, the company's long term goal has been energy independence (MarketWatch). Moreover, the day-to-day operations of the Traditional Medicinals subdue to their philosophy of caring about the earth and its natural resources, allways trying to minimize the environmental impact.

In this "green" spirit, Traditional Medicinals partnered up with Akeena Solar, a top designer and installer of solar powered systems, and completed the construction of the largest solar powered tea factory world wide. The ambitious project consisted in setting up 1,450 solar panels with the capacity of generating 430,000 kilowatt hours/year of clean energy for the 70,000 square foot factory and headquarters.

Nevertheless, the company's deep respect for earth and for a clean environment doesn't limit itself only to the renewable energy. It is praiseworthy the effort put into the company's 8.5 acre of self-sustained facility with its own water source and purification system, a clever waste water disposal system and a fleet of hybrid vehicles. This is what I would call "a small green world" on earth.

Did you know?

"Tea" is the common name of the shrub Camellia sinensis, which has been cultivated from antiquity in China. The word olso refers to the leaves, leaf buds and internodes of the above-mentioned plant, widely spread in asian contries.
The four basic types of true tea are black tea, oolang tea, green tea and white tea.