Green Options

Talking with Corey Szopinski, Principal and Founder of Core Industries.

Your firm has worked on some pretty cool projects like Live Earth and Pepsi, 1% for the Planet and the Volkswagen Carbon Neutral Project. Tell us what your clients come to your company for and what makes Core Industries different from other interactive strategy, design and development firms.

We’re the next evolution of a boutique interactive marketing firm. We are one of the few very high end development shops that has a clear mission of focusing on the triple bottom line: people, planet and profit. Clients come to us because they know that we get invested in their projects, their company, and their people, because we care about what we’re doing… we not out to make a quick buck. In fact, our overall mission is to help foster the emerging green economy. Our way of doing that is by using graphic design, computer science and marketing strategy to help our clients be more “sustainable”. And for us sustainability has a dual meaning: it means being responsible for our environment, but it also means making sure the business is sustainable. In other words, we help our clients thrive, not just survive.

I’ve always been attracted to the lotus blossom, and I used to embroider it often on the clothes I made and sold. Lotus Blossom Style shares my affinity for this flower, because it represents their mission as a company.  The lotus flower is a “sacred plant which symbolizes coming into your potential” and “represents the journey from unconscious to the conscious.”  One of my goals as an eco-parent is to raise conscious children, just like Lotus Blossom Style wishes to inspire their customers to be all that they can be.

The Baby Buddha Love Onesie is made from organic cotton. Organic cotton is healthier for baby and the planet.

We all absorb chemicals through our skin and through our environment.  Babies and young children’s skin is thinner than adults and therefore more sensitive to these chemicals.  Choosing organic cotton safeguards your child from the pesticides, insecticides and other toxins used to grow and manufacture conventional cotton products and helps transform the marketplace into a healthier and more conscious one for ALL.

1. Hats! Try this hip California Rising ‘We Are One’ Hat (shown here) which features breathable hemp, soft brushed organic cotton jersey, canvas with locally grown, milled and knitted organic cotton all dyed with low impact dyes. California Rising is a member of 1% For the Planet. I also like this visor from the Sierra Club, simply white and all organic.