Bags

These are cute bags I designed to use for grocery & daily shopping trips! They are roomy and the long handles make it extremely easy to carry them over your shoulder. The best part is that all profits from sales go to help a family in New Orleans rebuild their home post Katrina. It's a win win situation because you help the environment, and you remind a wonderful family that we haven't forgotten them or the hurricane that left so much damage in its wake. (bags are sold through cafepress)

The Voltaic Generator, due out the end of April, is the first carrying bag with solar cells powerful enough to recharge a laptop computer.

As I continue to write on things green and how we can better our own lives while helping the planet a bit, I’m always surprised when I get these hyper large statistics related to our health and the environment. A while back, I heard a piece on NPR that China was in the process of banning free plastic bags, requiring the customer to bring their own or be charged for one. The startling reason why?

Finally -- after years of solar bags capable of charging small gadgets like iPods and mobile phones, a company has developed one able to power laptops.

A bicycle-shopping cart combination, great idea, no pollution, good exercise and no plastic or paper bags to carry home.

The World Food Program's "FEED" bag is to be used in place of plastic bags. It's great for the environment, feeds a child for an entire year, looks very cool and isn't expensive. I'd love to see everyone walking around with one of these! Saving the planet isn't hard, sometimes it's as simple as ordering a $59 bag!

each handbag is made with 100% organic cotton twill which is dyed with low impact dyes. the lining and batting are also organic cotton. prints are created with non-toxic inks and bag bottoms are cut from recycled tetra boxes. sparrow bags are never made with any animal products.

While on vacation in ME met the owner of a new online retailer at a flea market. We got talking and she explained she was a stay at home mom who liked to shop, but wanted to do more for the environment. So, she came up with TheJuicyPearGiftShop.com, to sell gift items made from non-biodegradable material. She does not make these herself, but does what she can to support Fair Trade and the environment - Similar to Uncommongoods. I say Cheers! and good luck to her!