2022 Earth Day – Invest in Our Planet

Our core value,PROTECT, aligns with this year’s national Earth Day theme - . Protecting our customers, employees, families and theworld around us is our responsibility.

At our officein Littleton, Colorado, our JM Green Team focuses on ways that our employeescan be more sustainable both at work and at home. In 2016, the team startedit’s first beehive. In past years, a JM employee was managing the beekeepingfor two beehives on campus. There were some years that the hive would thrive and other years where it did not. In 2021, the team decided to sign on with acompany to manage a new hive, Best Bees. Having a bee hive on is one small but impactful initiative that we can do to support ourfuture and the growth of the environment. See it in action here:

Get an up-close look at the beehive located at 鶹ֱapp in Littleton, Colorado. This initiative is managed by the JM Green Team in efforts to support the importance of bees and our environment.

Get an up-close look at the beehive located at 鶹ֱapp in Littleton, Colorado. This initiative is managed by the JM Green Team in efforts to support the importance of bees and our environment.

The Best Bees company also provides us with a break down of the pollen from our hive. It is really informational on what local plant provide the best pollonation for our little bee hive.

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Otheractivities you and your company can do for Earth day is schedule a localcleanup, donate lightly used pet supplies to a local pet shelter, host a e-wasterecycling day, find or start a ,participate in a community garden, recycle junk mail, and more. There are also littleevery-day things that you can start doing at home such as composting, switchingout paper towels for Swedish dish cloths and bamboo “paper” products, usingdetergent sheets instead of the liquid or powder, and switching toshampoo/conditioner bars instead of buying bottles. Fun fact, bamboo is thefastest-growing plant on Earth.

We are alwayslooking for ideas to share. More and more companies are producing products thatare more sustainable between their manufacturing process and/or the end resulton the product’s waste. Share your Earth Day stories to roofingsystems@jm.com or send us practices that you have athome to be more sustainable.

“Thesecret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but onbuilding the new.” – Socrates