March 16, 2007
Breathe … Breathe … Slowly now …
OK, I think I’ve just attained Official Hippy Status — today, I was profiled on TreeHugger!!! The greenest of all green websites, it gets over two million unique visitors each month. My new best friend Lloyd Alter, who posts about all the Canadian happenings for the site, wrote it. Although he suggests I do 366 days to make up for my errant microwave post, he still gives Green as a Thistle two green thumbs up. Tonight, folks, the hemp beer’s on me!
Here’s the link:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/we_talk_often_a.php
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March 16, 2007
Why is it that so many tote bags are a tote-al disaster when it comes to aesthetics? They always look like this or this, or in some severe design vacuums, like this. I’m all for the ironically ugly once in a while, but not every single time I need to dash out for another carton of milk (unsweetened soy, natch), so it makes it difficult for me to commit to my latest green move — you guessed it — using tote bags.
Thankfully, some fellow Canadians have come to the rescue. BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag) was founded by Jenny Hughes and Elizabeth Clark after they noticed “a serious lack of choices on the market” when it came to plastic-bag alternatives.
Their totes are handmade and printed in Vancouver, and come in 100% natural or organic cotton. They’ll even take custom orders (Aritzia, for instance, commissioned a line of bags printed with the phrase ‘Live like you give a damn’ — whew, tough love!).
Currently they only sell in Vancouver and through their website, but hopefully they’ll expand. As for me, I’m pledging to bring my own bag whenever I go to the grocery store or need to bring stuff from home to another destination. I can’t account for any impulse purchases, but basically, whenever possible, I’m gonna rock the tote.
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