Our retailer in Singapore, Kanga Organics, is testing JungleVine® fabric as an organic skin conditioner. Our new volunteer Vandara (see the below article) has brought us exciting news that the fabric of the Earth's Greenest Bag has been used in areas of northern Japan to make aging skin young, blemished skin smooth and dry skin naturally moist. Vandara uses the miraculous ancient fabric regularly, and her skin is as beautiful as we’ve seen. Several other volunteers are experimenting to see what results they experience. Its use can be as simple as rubbing it against the skin for a few minutes daily. Vivian H Ramirez Volunteer/Editor
No matter who you are, we all end up having too much to carry with us. When choosing a purse, grocery sack or tote bag, there are few options out there where we can really “know” what they’re made of, let alone who made them and if they are eco-friendly too. Nature Bag gives you the durability and style wanted in a carry along bag with the added benefit of knowing we are aiding the environment and helping to reduce poverty. Unique in style, structure and shape, Nature Bag is homemade from wild-growing JungleVine® fiber in Laos and is completely bio-degradable. Lightweight yet strong and remarkably versatile, Nature Bag definitely makes a “green” statement. The Nature Bag website goes into great detail about...
Be careful that your cloth bags actually are eco-friendly. Cotton bags (unless they are organic) have a much larger carbon footprint than "disposable" plastic because of the intensive agriculture and manufacturing they require. Even hemp bags, because they are made from cultivated hemp and usually in factories, have significant carbon footprints. The Nature Bag Khmu/Lao Poverty Reduction Project, sharing Earth's Greenest Bag globally, is truly eco-friendly because of its hand-harvested naturally-growing fiber, in-home crafting, long life cycle & minimal weight allowing delivery anywhere with almost no consumption of fossil-sourced energy. It's socially sustainable, too, being a tool for thousands of years for the ancient culture that makes it today to provide income without wasteful commuting & allowing traditional child nurturing. ...
When you select gifts for the holidays this year, how could you do better than Earth’s Greenest Bag? Is someone who uses a sports or swim bag on your gift list? Surprise them with the ultimate tote for either purpose: the stretchable Nature Bag. Perfect for a beach outing, it’s a home-crafted present that will be cherished by almost anybody – not only your eco-conscious friends. How about a fungus hunter who will be in the forests on the first perfect spring day gathering mushrooms? One of our less dense Pahk style bags is a perfect gift to carry the harvest while allowing the morel or other spores to return to the earth and generate more delicacies for the next...
The organic fiber that the Khmu bag crafters use almost exclusively can now be purchased at www.NatureBag.ORG. “Over the years we’ve had requests from textile scholars as well as designers for samples of the fiber that is an important element in the amazing characteristics of the Nature Bag,” explained Volunteer & Primary Financial Project sponsor Bill Newbrough. “So we’ve decided to add samples of both the cord and the fabric as products for sale on our e-commerce website.” In addition to scholarly study, the samples can be used for novelty gifts or included in homemade clothing and other hand-stitched fabrics. One inquirer wanted to know how a piece of the fabric might work in a quilt. Now s/he can find...
