If you think this is interesting, check out Pizza Fusion - www.pizzafusion.com. Based out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, this new organic pizza franchise is ‘Saving the Earth, One Pizza at a Time’.

Here are some examples of their environmental efforts:

- Delivering their food in company owned hybrid vehicles
- Powering their stores, corporate office and website 100% with renewable wind energy
- Recycling and giving customers discounts for bringing back their pizza boxes to recycle them
- Using only eco-friendly cleaners to sanitize all their stores
- Using 100% post consumer recycled paper in all their collateral
- Printing their collateral with soy inks
- Designing and constructing their stores with renewable, reusable, and recycled products according to the LEED construction rating system.
- Serving their food in plastic substance like containers that are made 100% from corn starch and are designed to decompose in landfills in 30 days
- Providing their employees only with eco-apparel made from 100% organic cotton
- Host a free organics for kids class every third Thursday of the month that educates children on the importance of eating organic and recycling
- Donate money to environmental causes in and around their communities

Hi---Eric: Love that you came by to tell us about Pizza Fusion. I checked out the website and indeed the pizzeria is a model for socially responsible entrepreneurship. Thanxs for the tip. Good job. I will do a piece on you guys sometime this week. Cheers.

Sure thing. Thanks for your interest in socially responsible companies. :)