Being a Green Manufacturer, Cedar Bear Naturales™ is conscious of and utilizes low erg index manufacturing practices aimed at minimal negative impact on the environment, ecology and surrounding community. This includes minimal green-house gasses output and operating policies that contribute to sustainable
practices aimed at the preservation and continued viability of botanicals both wild and cultivated. (Cedar Bear Naturales also considers support of sustainable seed stocks and opposition to stealth (sterile) seed technologies (for both ecological reasons and the world-wide disasterous consequences that total corporatization of food supplies represents) to be an ancillary part of being a Green Manufacturer.)
Being a Green Manufacturer, Cedar Bear Naturales™ is constantly assessing and reassessing its numerous proprietary manufacturing operations to assure they meet, as closely as possible, its Green Manufacturing practices, to contribute to reduction of green-house gasses, that additionally results in minimal negative impact on the community in which Cedar Bear Naturales is located.
Cedar Bear Naturales™ facility also contributes to its status as a low erg index Green Manufacturer, that includes: The structure being South facing and includes 70% of windows facing South; The working facility being cocooned in a larger outer building - called a 'skin' (i.e., a building within a building), which contributes to efficient year-round temperature and environmental controls (including minimal dust load); And, the facility has multiple temperature controlled zones (as opposed to an energy wasting 'central' heating/cooling system).
Cedar Bear Naturales™ manufacturing operations is based on one of the lowest erg indexes in the herbal products industry, especially where low botanical residue to finished product produced is concerned, which actively contributes to the sustainability of botanical species with minimal back-end CO2 output. Cedar Bear Naturales™ low erg index is a major key to its being a Green Manufacturer.