<div class="rightside_item">  <h2>Our Values</h2><div class="rightside_item"> 				<hr /></div><div class="rightside_item">&nbsp;</div><div class="rightside_item"><strong>greenWELLS, inc.</strong> sponsors projects that deal with socially responsible business, environmentally responsible business, and creative solutions that fall under one or more of these categories: </div><ul> <li><a href="#deconstruction">Deconstruction &amp; Reuse</a></li> <li><a href="#recycling">Recycling</a></li> <li><a href="#environment">Environmental Revitalization</a></li> <li><a href="#social">Health &amp; Social Responsibility</a></li> <li><a href="#animal">Companion Animal Rescue &amp; Compassion Education</a></li> </ul>  <h3 id="deconstruction">Deconstruction &amp; Reuse</h3> <p>greenWELLS is a member of the Building Materials Reuse Association (BMRA).  Ann Echols was Treasurer of the <span class="caps">BMRA</span> from 2004 to 2006, and attended the DeCon04 conference and presented at the Decon05 and DeCon07 annual conferences. greenWELLS uses its expertise to add value to the deconstruction and building materials reuse industry. Ann holds a business doctorate in the field of strategy, entrepreneurship and the strategic management of technology, and recently founded <a href="http://www.officediggs.com" target="_blank" title="officeDiggs.com">officeDiggs.com</a>, an image coordination and web application firm.</p> <h3 id="recycling">Recycling</h3> <p>greenWELLS supports &quot;cradle to cradle&quot; environmentally responsible business.  Ann gives guest lectures to Penn State classes on this and other corporate social responsibility topics.  Ann studied Business Ethics and CSR under the field&#39;s leading professors: Rich Wokutch and Carroll Stephens. She taught Business Ethics at PSU, and will be part of an ethics for engineers workshop this summer at Penn State.  greenWELLS is a member of the Greening of Industry Network, Business for Social Responsibility, and the Organizations and Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management.</p> <h3 id="environment">Environmental Revitalization</h3> <p>greenWELLS supports environmental efforts that promote infiltration and responsible, artful stormwater management through sponsoring: <a href="http://www.artfulrainwaterdesign.net" target="_blank">www.artfulrainwaterdesign.net.</a></p> <h3 id="social">Health &amp; Social Responsibility</h3> <p>Ann teaches Healthcare Finance to undergraduate and masters students at PSU.  These connections have enabled greenWELLS to be proactively involved in helping consultants create new tools and networks to help administrators in the healthcare industry work toward more affordable quality care.  Ann&#39;s entrepreneurial businesses provide healthcare coverage to employees, flexible time, family leave, professional development, and an open pet-friendly work environment.  Through enforcing responsibility, accountability, integrity, working well with others, customer focus, and adaptability, employees carry out behaviors that help to reduce stress caused by the unexpected, minimize office politics, and increase empowerment.</p> <h3 id="animal">Companion Animal Rescue &amp; Compassion Education</h3> <p>greenWELLS supports <a href="http://www.chattypet.com" target="_blank">Chattypet.com</a>, a website that presently specializes in giving pets a voice.  When people share from a pet&#39;s perspective, children, especially, can begin to learn compassion for animals by understanding their feelings and how human actions may be perceived by pets.  The goal of Chattypet.com is to help people to carry out responsible pet ownership and provide a lifetime of quality care for pets.  Chattypet.com supports animal rescue by helping these organizations to be successful at placing homeless pets with people who can provide them with loving permanent homes. Chattypet.com aims to make a difference on the planet by increasing the level of respect for animals and by furthering our understanding of the benefits that companion animals provide to humans.  When humans increase companion animals&#39; quality of life, we simultaneously increase our own quality of life. Ann volunteers for Nittany Beagle Rescue as Treasurer, and she and her husband have 16 adopted beagles, are caring for three foster beagles, and have one cat.  &quot;People call it pet paradise,&quot; says Stuart, &quot;they have a doggie door, fenced fields, and eat a homemade diet. Our average age is over ten, and three are blind, but you couldn&#39;t tell if you saw them running in the field.&quot;</p> </div> 