Do Good Facts
- Nature’s Path chooses non-toxic soy-based inks on all of our paperboard packaging. Vegetable inks are easier to recycle and better for the environment.
- As of Fall 2004, we’ve reduced the box size of our flaked cereals by 10% saving on unnecessary packaging waste. In 2007 we rolled out the EnviroBox™ to the rest of its cereal products. The amount of cereal doesn’t change, just the amount of wasted box space. And as of 2009, we’ve lightened the weight of the our cereal boxes, saving an additional 186 tons of paperboard per year.
- The USDA Organic logo is from the US Department of Agriculture and is used when a product is 95-100% organic. All of our certified organic Nature’s Path® and EnviroKidz™ products qualify for the "organic" term according to the USDA rules.
In our factories we donate line waste that can’t be reused to local farmers, thereby reducing our trips to the landfill. We also donate damaged product to the food bank when possible.- A portion of the energy used to make our cereals come from "Green Certificates" — which come from 100% new green electricity generated in B.C. - Source: BC Hydro
- One square foot of agricultural soil has 5 to 30 earthworms. Earthworms can turn over the top 6 inches of soil in 10 to 20 years.
- Every time Nature’s Path makes and sells an organic product, land is kept under organic stewardship. Through the growth of the organic food movement organic acreage increases thereby saving more land from chemical contamination and unsustainable use.
- According to the 15-year study "Farming Systems Trial" conducted by the Rodale Institute of Kutztown, Penn., organic agriculture can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by effectively locking more carbon into the soil rather than releasing it into the atmosphere, as happens in conventional agriculture. - Source: O’Mama Report
- Americans use 50 million tons of paper annually — consuming more than 850 million trees. Read more
- Homeowners use up to 10 times more toxic chemicals per acre than farmers. Read more
- Our EnviroKidz™ EnviroFund has raised nearly $1 Million for endangered species and environments since the launch of the EnviroKidz brand! In 2000, Nature’s Path started collecting one percent of sales from all EnviroKidz™ organic products and placed the money in an EnviroFund. The EnviroFund is distributed annually to endangered species, habitat conservation and environmental education for kids. In 2004, EnviroKidz broke its annual record with nearly $73,000 raised bringing the total amount provided to wildlife conservation to nearly $300,000 since 2000.
- One of the impacts of farming is that it has the power to protect and increase (or destroy) natural biodiversity of mammals, insects, microbiological lifeforms in the soil, and the genetic biodiversity of our plant species. We have chosen organic because it protects biodiversity.
- There are many types of organisms living in the soil, making up the soil food web. These are some of their names: Bacteria, algae, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, micro-arthropods, earthworms, insects, small vertebrates and plants. A healthy plant community cannot exist without the soil food web that provides nutrition to the plants. Organic agriculture helps build the soil food web.
- NP composts office food waste at our head office. We use the compost to fertilize the demonstration grain field and organic garden and picnic area behind our building.
- If only 10,000 medium sized farms in the U.S. converted to organic production, they would store so much carbon in the soil that it would be equivalent to taking 1,174,400 cars off the road, or reducing car miles driven by 14.62 billion miles. Converting the U.S.’s 160 million corn and soybean acres to organic production would sequester enough carbon to satisfy 73 percent of the Kyoto targets for CO2 reduction in the U.S. U.S. agriculture as currently practiced emits a total of 1.5 trillion pounds of CO2 annually into the atmosphere. Converting all U.S. cropland to organic would not only wipe out agriculture’s massive emission problem. By eliminating energy-costly chemical fertilizers, it would actually give us a net increase in soil carbon of 734 billion pounds. Source: http://www.newfarm.org/depts/NFfield_trials/1003/carbonsequest_print.shtml
