Enviro-friendly firms recognized

East Stroudsburg — Businesses throughout the four-county Pocono region (Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne Counties) have vied for a spot on the first annual Pocono Business Journal Green List, a compilation of those firms that best exemplify stewardship in our environment. Nominations were received from major industry, start-ups, Mom and Pop operations and other firms. The top 10 are in good company: they’re part of a growing, national, environmental trend aimed at cleaning up, powering down and, in general, trying to keep Mother Earth off the endangered species list. The 2008 Green List winners are (in alphabetical order): • Access Office Technologies, Stroudsburg • Clarion Safety Systems LLC, Milford • DMI Manufacturing, Inc., Stroudsburg • East Shore Lodging, Hawley • Eckman Building Components, Lehighton • The Gilded Cupid Bed and Breakfast, Jim Thorpe • Pocmont Resort and Conference Center, Bushkill • The Settlers Inn, Hawley • Strunk-Albert Engineering, East Stroudsburg • Woodloch Resort, Hawley The companies have received a certificate acknowledging their inclusion on the Green List and have been featured in the April edition of Pocono Business Journal.