Conservatory is key to promote new 2.5 cent digitally printed wristband
A fast growing Washington State wristband manufacturer from Seattle with a new wristband that competes with low-cost Chinese wristbands has contacted the City of Seattle proposing to lead the effort to save the world-renowned Conservatory greenhouse from closure in Seattle's famous Volunteer Park.
Wristbandfactory.com wants to sponsor Seattle's Volunteer Park Conservatory to help keep it open to the public. (Photo: Business Wire)
"This is so typical of Seattle to narrow more streets for bicycles but then close a cultural icon, like the Volunteer Park Conservatory as an offset," says Steve Hall, President of Wristbandfactory.com. "The Mayor is a former Sierra Club leader. The Sierra Club apparently is more interested in stopping oil fracking than saving 2,000 pineapples, 1,200 palms, and thousands of tropical plants including a 75 year old Jade Tree in Seattle. I thought the Sierra Club was interested in tropical forests?"
Wristbandfactory.com wants its name up on the conservatory. "If people are comfortable with names like CenturyLink and Alaska Airlines on Seattle stadiums, what is wrong with Wristbandfactory.com on a famous greenhouse?" asks Hall.
Wristbandfactoy.com's Hall said, "We would love to have more, and stronger support from the community, like Starbucks. Starbucks would be a perfect sponsor to save the conservatory, considering it buys coffee from every tropical country these endangered Volunteer Park Conservatory plants come from. In fact, I'll bet coffee growers have to chop some of these plants down to grow coffee beans! I would love to contact Starbucks, but it has been difficult, as in the past, when I submit an idea, I get a Starbucks' legal letter mailed back saying they cannot respond to new ideas. Maybe someone in Seattle knows how to contact Starbucks?"
The Conservatory should be expanded and improved under new leadership with sponsorships. This could be a larger, more scientific entity with a worldwide interest in tropical plant conservation. Wristbandfactory.com's Hall points out that the Woodland Park Zoo is now internationally known for its worldwide, wild animal conservation efforts.
"Seattle has no equal in the area of plant conservation," Hall of Wristbandfactory.com said. "On one hand, I'll bet there are over 1000 public and private researchers, companies and organizations in Seattle trying to stop rain forest destruction through daily recycling, use of millions of tons of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified recycled paper, research dollars and other efforts that make your head spin. Yet, Seattle closes its single, most important tropical conservatory? It's a bad joke and not becoming of a City that hosts the University of Washington (UW) with researchers with tens of millions of dollars in grants to save every aspect of the tropics. The UW even owns ships that travel to the tropics!"
Rippedsheets.com, Wristbandfactory.com's parent company, was the first to make 100% recycled paper labels, using the former Grays Harbor Paper FSC 100% recycled paper.
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