Part of being a business in Takoma Park, MD is being socially conscious. Fortunately, as technology and industry catches up with environmental awareness it's becoming easier and easier to be greener and greener.

For years the House has been recycling: first aluminium and glass and later every scrap of paper and cardboard. By now, though a LOT of stuff comes IN to the store, almost nothing goes out in a trash bag.

Now House of Musical Traditions has switched all of its electrical utilities over to renewable, green generation companies. Yup, our power comes clean and fresh from the windfarms of New Jersey!

(from the Washington Gas Energy Services website)
Washington Gas Energy Services (WGES) brings you an exciting electricity option - wind energy credits from regional wind farms. Wind power, the world's fastest growing energy resource, displaces conventional power, reduces carbon dioxide and your carbon footprint, and helps eliminate air pollution problems such as smog and acid rain. Plus, wind is an unlimited resource with an unlimited supply! Electricity deregulation provides choices and wind power simply is the clean choice...the right choice.

First a brand new clean-smelling store, now we've got clean power... who knows what we'll clean up next!