Mysteries and Updates – Selling Eco Bags is Always Fun!
The mystery of the hordes of eco-visitors, and a new-look website and PlumEthical.com
Fair-Trade is More than Helping Someone Who Lives Far Away
What is fair-trade? Simon Garrett talks about fair-trade schemes, official and otherwise.
Waste not, want not
A couple of days ago, I looked up E&KO on the web again* and came across some YouTube videos I hadn’t seen before. In one, Kresse (the ‘K’ in E&KO) was talking about the amount of waste we create. She made a point that is worth repeating. Imagine you have to explain to an 8yrs-old [...]
E&KO Bags
Have you seen our E&KO bags? Wow they’re good. Really, good. We had to order them, sight-unseen (because we ran out of time getting the shop ready), but when they arrived we were over the moon. “Woohoo!”, we cried, “That’s the moon underneath us!”
They are very, very well made, and all local to the UK, [...]
The Neumatica Bags are Here!
Our Neumatica bags arrived last week, all the way from Argentina!
We were really concerned about the carbon footprint, but we thought we should try it because Neumatica are doing such brilliant work. It turned out that Roby (owner of Neumatica) packaged the bags up very small, with no internal filling, and the delivery wasn’t anywhere [...]
Independence From Nasty Bags
We’re properly open now.
Our next job is to get the message out that it *is* possible to buy gorgeous bags that are also ethical. To do that will take a long time, but we have a plan and we’ll get there in the end. Lots of people to write to, lots of ads [...]