Fair-Trade is More than Helping Someone Who Lives Far Away
Posted on | July 29, 2009 | No Comments
What is fair-trade? Simon Garrett talks about fair-trade schemes, official and otherwise.
Waste not, want not
Posted on | July 24, 2009 | No Comments
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
Posted on | July 22, 2009 | No Comments
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 [...]
The Neumatica Bags are Here!
Posted on | July 22, 2009 | No Comments
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 [...]
Independence From Nasty Bags
Posted on | July 4, 2009 | No Comments
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 to [...]
When We’re Tired, We Make Mistakes
Posted on | June 30, 2009 | No Comments
That’s certainly true of me at the moment. Do you know what I did yesterday? No? I’ll tell you. I carefully crafted a Facebook advert to let people know about the new site (which you may have noticed we have kind of put live). I got the text and photo exactly how I wanted them. [...]
Almost There…
Posted on | June 26, 2009 | No Comments
Nearly there now. We’ve just got a few problems to sort out with the way the website renders on certain browsers (yes, IE6, if you’re interested). We’ve also got to make the pages load as fast as possible by making things more efficient (we want people to enjoy themselves, not be shouting “Load, damn you!” [...]
Supplier ‘Issues’
Posted on | June 15, 2009 | No Comments
One of our intended suppliers uses leather in their bags. This is not something we want to go for. It was quite a surprise to us. To be as fair to them as possible, it is re-claimed leather, and they do point out that leather is not really biodegradable (once tanned), but we want to [...]
