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Sustainable Living.
Sustainable lives at Ecogear means making conscious lifestyle decisions, examining every aspect of our daily lives to find out what we’ve done so wrong all these years that mother nature herself is on the verge of collapsing on us.
In looking back at the way we’ve lived, its clear that those lifestyles could not go on and the recession we’re in has been the best wake up call. We cannot afford to consume the way we have, with reckless disregard for the consequences of our daily actions.
In moving onward, we all must step up to the next level, discard our animal ways of stuffing ourselves without regard for tomorrow, we must leave our fascination for bright lights and trinkets behind and find joy in the warm glow of long burn sustainable lives. |
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At Ecogear, our mission is to simply offer everyday consumer products that will not harm the environment in its manufacture, its use and its end fate.
For that reason, we have focussed only on products that do not call for excessive energy to produce or leave a murky soup of toxins.
We use all natural materials wherever we find them, insist on certified organic ingredients, package our products with minimal packaging so that when you’re done with it, all that’s left is the faintest of footprints on the environment.
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Eco factors :
- Landfill diversion from recovered preconsumer cotton clippings.
- Least water and energy used to produce.
- Sewn and printed in Canada from US fabrics.
- Printed with organic inks and/or water based inks with zero PVC/pthalates.
- Hangtags, printed on 100% recycled paper. With raffia string and reusable pin.
- Zero presence of any petroleum based product, with the exception of the recycled PET bottles.
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Eco factors :
- All natural solid blocks of coconut trunk
- No laminates or lacquers.
- Least energy used.
- Fair trade product from Vietnam.
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Eco factors :
- Least energy used.
- No petroleum based products.
- Minimal mining, the earring hooks are sterling silver but that’s it.
- Least chemicals used. Some of the seeds,nuts are dyed with organic based dyes.
- Fair trade product from Colombia. To meet the designer, please visit her page.
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Eco factors :
- Certified organic all natural ingredients
- Zero petroleum based product.
- Least energy as its hand made.
- Label is printed on 100% recycled paper, designed with minimal print to provide just
enough visual appeal.
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Copyright EcoGear 2007-09. All rights reserved. |
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