What’s Green for your Health in Northwest Arkansas?

... From Biz2Biz NWA May 2009

By Janie Prtichett-Clark

Adopting a green lifestyle at home, at business and in your community may be easier than you realize. Companies from one end of NWA to the other are focusing on the green issue, learning to change their choices to help you change yours. Here’s a sample of what we found to be green in Northwest Arkansas.

Take care of the planet. Take care of yourself. There are many ways to do both, many of which we are learning first-hand and for the first-time at this event. Eat, sleep and be well may well be the Green adage of the 21st century.

Sleep Better, Sleep Healthy, Sleep Natural • Mountain Air Natural Beds

Did you know most mattresses have a planned obsolesence of five years? Most people will toss and turn uncomfortably on it for another four and half years before they give in and shop. In the meantime their mattress could be adding to a myriad of health issues, such as allergies, arthritis, stiffness or knee, back and hip pain.

Mountain Air Natural Beds has a green solution you may want to consider. They are the only place in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri to carry an all-natural, organic, latex mattress. Toxin free, the SavvyRest mattress is better for people with health issues and is designed to provide unmatched comfort for decades. The label reads 98% natural rubber, 2% organic cotton and 2% organic wool. You can’t get much greener than that.

Joyce Robertson is the owner of Mountain Air Natural Beds. “We spend 20-25 years of our lives in bed. Why spend two-thirds living healthy and one-third on a toxic synthetic mattress?” she asks. “Latex provides a healthier and more restful sleep environment. Your pillow is 20% of your sleeping comfort. Organic pillows are incomparable in quality and comfort.”

Latex is a natural hypoallergenic, anti-bacterial, anti-microbial, dust mite resistant material that comes from the sap of the rubber tree. The SavvyRest brand carries the coveted “Rated Greenest” from National Geographic Green Guide and the Confidence in Textiles standard tested for harmful substances.

As a trend Robertson sees more people moving to organic and natural bedding, and matching it with green and organic items for the bedroom as well as the entire home. From pillows to toppers, sheets and robes, organics are taking hold– and Mountain Air Natural Beds carries them.

Customer satisfaction is key, says Robertson. “Our to attention to the health needs of our clients is a relationship, not a transaction.”