The Green Guide to Narberth aims to show you all the environmentally friendly products and services available by our local, family run businesses. Take advantage of our walkable community and do something green - walk or bike to town!
When you shop in Narberth, ask the stores to increase their environmentally friendly items, services, and practices.
The Green Guide
(Arranged alphabetically )
American Family Market
One of the most important things you can do is support our local, family run businesses. Lets show these guys just how much we appreciate having a local, family run market! Vote with your dollar and get your groceries and hoagies at American Family Market. Additionally, the Market now sells REUSABLE GROCERY BAGS for just $1 each.
Narberth Apartments
CPM Group owns and manages unique apartments with character and charm in the borough of Narberth. We take pride in providing residents with quality homes, attentive service and excellent value.
We care about our residents, our community and our environment. We are actively making improvements to our buildings to lessen the impact we make on the environment. As part of our
ongoing initiative to promote sustainable living in Narberth, we support a green lifestyle with the following features in our buildings:
• Wind-powered electricity
• Water-conserving toilets use just 1.6 gallons per flush
• Luxury low-flow shower heads that save up to 14,000 gallons per year
• Flow-control faucet aerators
• Compact fluorescent lighting of all common areas
• Weekly recycling
• Ideal locations that promote walking and use of public transport
• Bicycle storage
To learn more about CPM Group or Narberth apartments visit www.NarberthApartments.com
Narberth Video
Narberth Video's video trade is a great way to recycle unwanted items and get nice credit for doing so. Beth from Narberth Video also makes a point to provide her customers with "yucky trash" and "recycling" bins. They even have the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car!"
Ricklin's Hardware
Jed Riddell of Ricklin's Hardware was kind enough to provide Narberth Greens with a list of the top four things you can do to make your home energy efficient.
1) Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs "If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars." -(Energy Star)
2) Change your air conditioner filters: Jed says that if you keep on top of changing your air conditioner's filters, your machine will run more efficiently and save energy because it won't have to work as hard to condition the air. This can also helps with allergy suppression.
3) weather stripping: Jed says to make sure your home is equipped with the proper weather stripping to help maintain modified environments in hot and cold weather.
4) Push lawn mowers: Get the chore of mowing the lawn out of the way, and save yourself a trip to the gym all at once!
All of the above items are available at Ricklin's Hardware. Tell Ricklin's you would like more environmentally friendly items!
Sweet Mable
Sweet Mable is an eclectic folk art and craft store located on the hill in the downtown shopping district. This store features a diverse selection of art and crafts that are created out of recycled items, or are handmade by local artists. Shop for green gifts at Sweet Mable. Sweet Mable is located on the hill in downtown Narberth and offers classes for kids throughout the year. Stop in, and discover a whole new world of creativity! (610) 667 3041.
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The Green Guide will be expanding shortly. If you would like your business to be included, please contact NarberthGreens@gmail.com.
