Hanna's Green Travel Tip and a Giveaway!

Sawasdee and Greetings from Bangkok, Thailand!

My work calls for a lot of travel. I rack up a huge amount of greenhouse gas emissions brought about by air travel. Since I can't really prevent air travel, I have to compensate for it by trying to live a sustainable lifestyle. I enjoy thinking of ways on how I can travel "green" by tweaking my practices and making personal choices that reduce my personal contribution to waste and environmental degradation.

Do you shop when you travel? I do. I end up with several plastic and paper bags, which I hardly also pack and bring home with me.

Green Tip #1 - Bring a lightweight shopping bag when you travel

By practicing this green tip, you could reduce waste, you could have an easier time carrying one bag (than several small ones), and you also have an opportunity to be stylish by using the shopping bag of your choice!

Now before I turn in a full blown article , I would also like to know what YOU think! I challenge you to share your own Reuse+Ability for GREEN TRAVEL ! And WIN THIS:


Live Simply reusable shopping bag and journal (recycled paper!) + surprise prize !

 

3 WAYS TO JOIN!

1) Log-in with your Facebook or Twitter Account on http://reuseability.com/ and share your travel tip on our commitment wall ("What's your ReuseAbility idea?")  OR contribute an article with the hashtag #GreenTravelTip

2) Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/reuseability and post a photo and a description of your green travel tip with the hashtag  #GreenTravelTip

3) Tweet @reuseability a photo describing your #GreenTravelTip (don't forget the hashtag!)

Winners will be notified by FB Message or Twitter. Prize will be delivered for free to any Philippine location.

GET THOSE TRAVEL TIPS COMING! Challenge ends 11:59 PM (GMT+8) Saturday, September 21!

Eco Enterprise : Rags 2 Riches - scrap cloth to chic bags

Have you ever been stuck in traffic and offered to buy “basahan” (cotton cloth rags). These are usually scrap pieces of cloth (“retaso”) sewn together. Another variation is the woven cloth door mat, a classic design. The nanays who make these rags spend a lot of their time sewing and weaving, only to sell them for a few pesos through informal means, or much worse, get cheated out of extra income by middlemen who supply the rags and buy the finished products.

Throwing in some ingenuity, Pinoy creativity, entrepreneurial spirit, and social responsibility – Reese Fernandez-Ruiz and some friends formed Rags to Riches (R2R). R2R is a social enterprise that helps empower the “nanays” or former rag weavers, to become bag artists. With the help of big name Pinoy designers, such as Rajo Laurel and Amina Aranaz, R2R harnessed the lowly rag weaving style to create fabulous designs of bags worthy of high-end boutique shelves. Talk about adding value!

This upcycling of scrap cloth offers several benefits. It has turned scrap cloth from waste to  commodity, and added on to its value by creating luxury items that would generate “repeat buyers” (How many cloth rags does a girl really need? J How many bags does a girl need? ).  More than the improved livelihood, the bag weavers are also empowered with new skills and fresh confidence.

Rags to Riches , indeed, is a testament that successful businesses have room for environmental and social responsibility!

Learn more about R II R :

http://rags2riches.ph/

@R2RecoStyle

 

I've been lucky enough to score these R 2 R goodies in some events. I am still saving up for the Buslo  tote bag  :) Good things come to those who wait.

 

 

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