Thursday, February 14, 2008

Introduction to Greening your Dojo

The series of blog posts are your step-by-step guide to Greening Your Dojo. Each post will rank you from White to Black Belt according to the actions taken to green your business.

Why Green your Dojo?

As Martial Arts teachers/ educators, we teach our students a level of social consciousness. You would not tell students after their first lesson to go home and practice their punches and kicks on their parents and siblings.

Of course not! Instead, we give the new student a sense of responsibility with the new skill and teach them to respect the new skill - developing a level of social responsibility.

Greening your martial arts school is extension of this social consciousness to wider field, which includes the environment. By leading by example, you integrate a new level of learning experience into your school.

We all know that our students follow what they see.

Benefits of Green Your Martial Arts School

The benefits of Green your business vary from reducing waste to saving money.

  • Allergy free environment – Many store bought cleaners contain additive that cause allergies.
  • Reduced waste that end up filling up landfills
  • Energy savings – electric and heating cost
  • Reduce Co2’s

In the next post, you will earn your white belt in Environmental Self-Defense just like a student performing an introductory lesson by completing a checklist of 5 Essential Environmental Self-Defense Techniques.

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