Owner: Saving our planet, one bag at a time URL:http://www.badlani.com/blog Join Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:27:43 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Plastic bags are destroying our planet. A million of them are discarded every minute and they are eaten b y innocent animals and marine leaf, who die horrible deaths as a consequence. This blog discusses the easy and attractive alternatives available. Site statistics:Click here
Cotton bags can be babe-magnets. Women now prefer green. 2008-06-09 05:21:07 Green is the sexiest concept around. As you read this story about Ferraris and Porsches taking a back seat to greener cars, let me tell you an even easier way to make your point. Grab a cotton shopping bag!
WASHINGTON: Forget that Ferrari, put away the Porsche, and junk the Jag, if you are haring after [...] Read more:Cotton
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Green marketing, green collar jobs. The lexicon of our New Age 2008-06-05 04:11:42 Its World Environment Day today and an appropriate moment to acknowledge what is happening to awareness of environmental issues.
The last one year has seen a greater growth in awareness of environmental issues than ever before. Green
marketing is now taken seriously by all but the most backward companies.
Even knowing this, because I read and write [...]
Students seek a ban on plastic bags 2008-05-21 05:40:27 I’ve always been convinced that kids are more honest and sincere than us cynical old timers who’ve accepted the world for what it is and are willing to let things be the way they are. Kids are bright eyed and innocent and haven’t yet got around to assuming that change is impossible. So, they try. [...]
I wish I’d thought of that! 2008-05-15 05:40:41 Today I saw a press release announcing that a childrens’ book called “My Bag and Me” had won the iParenting Media Award. What a great idea. I wish I had thought
of it first. But I didn’t and they did and I wish them great success with it.
Here’s the press release:
iParenting Media Awards announced [...]
The answer to “paper or plastic” is Neither! 2008-05-08 04:04:23 Seattle’s mayor Greg Nickels and City Council President Richard Conlin have proposed a 20 cent “green fee” on all disposable shopping bags. It targets both paper
and plastic bags at grocery, drug and convenience stores, says this story in LA Times. “The answer
to the question ‘paper or plastic’ is neither: Both harm the environment,” [...] Read more:Neither
Guerilla Marketing to new age consumers 2008-05-01 07:43:00 “What sells?” I was asked the other day by a young lady, a budding entrepreneur, looking as though she expected some deep and secret insights from me.
Fortunately, I had a simple answer to give her: “Brands that people trust. Brands they associate with the good qualities they seek and a name they associate with the [...] Read more:consumers
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Green is the new black 2008-04-10 07:28:30 People who still believe green thinking is restricted to niche players ought to read the brilliant and insightful article below from Infopedia.com (a Forbes company). It is a stark reminder of just how mainstream green thinking has become. Green
is truly the new black, both in terms of fashion and now in terms of [...]
Nevada students distribute 3000 reusable cotton bags 2008-04-08 08:04:41 A Nevada
school takes the initiative to make the Town of Truckee sensitive to the plastic bag issue. This story appeared on Nevada Appeal.com.
Dressed in green recycling shirts, sixth-grade students darted about in front of Truckee’s Safeway Friday afternoon, handing out reusable grocery bags and polling the community on recycling.
“I think if people see a [...]
It works. Putting a price on plastic bags works, says IKEA. 2008-04-04 05:50:45 Ever wonder why IKEA is such a respected and admired company? Its simple things like this that makes it happen.
Since IKEA stopped giving away free plastic bags – you either bring your own or buy one of their giant blue bags for 59 cents – the results have been dramatic.
Until March 2007, the company’s customers [...] Read more:price
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Customer Service. What exactly is it? 2008-06-23 05:47:00 What exactly is customer service? This isn’t as simple a question as it sounds. Out of every hundred companies you do business with, how many would rank high on this front?
Five? Ten? Fifteen? Sixty? Ninety?
If you chose a number lower than 20, it’s worth questioning why the other 80 would ignore such an important aspect [...] Read more:Customer
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown looks at a Norquest Bag 2008-06-27 06:08:46 Every so often a pleasant surprise arrives in your mailbox.
This morning it was a friend and customer in England Simon Hawthorne sending us a picture of him showing one of our bags to British
Prime MinisterGordonBrown
.
“He’s very supportive of the reusable bag campaign” wrote Simon “and with all that’s happening – Zimbabwe, petrol [...]
The politicization of green marketing 2008-07-11 05:32:47 I just read an article where the author is outraged by Wal-Mart dictating green parameters to their suppliers for the products they buy. I’ve reproduced the story below.
I imagine Wal-Mart’s reputation as a bully has some element of truth, but suppliers still queue up to do business with them. It’s a choice they make, even [...]
Shopping bags go hi-fashion 2008-08-18 05:51:56 From a humble utility item just a while ago, the shopping bag is quickly transforming itself into as much of a fashion accessory as anything else you wear to express yourself.
Today, carrying a smartly designed shopping bag is a powerful statement for people to make, as it visibly sets them apart from the less [...] Read more:Shopping
Savvy marketers will appreciate this trend 2008-08-26 04:59:52 The trend I’ve been observing tells me that while the first move to reusable bags instead of plastic bags takes place on a pure utility basis, it quickly morphs into a move towards fashion.
Savvy
marketers may consider moving straight into the fashion zone saving themselves time and money in the process of making their environmental [...]
The bad news about plastics continues 2008-09-20 09:27:39 Despite industry assurances that plastics aren’t really bad, frightening news continues to emerge from independent research. The latest news (in todays New York Times) is about BPA - bisphenol-A — a chemical used in many plastics and epoxy resins now found in baby bottles and liners for canned goods.
In animal testing it was discovered to [...]
Start a new trend from Japan in your markets – minibags 2008-11-10 05:03:52 The world’s fashion industry has recognised that Japan
ese street fashion often points the way to megatrends.
The latest story coming out of Japan is about the sudden popularity of mini-bags. It was carried in the Daily Yomiuri a couple of months back.
Entrepreneurs in countries where fashion is meaningful, would do well to read this [...] Read more:Start
I welcome Obama’s victory for change 2008-11-05 06:28:27 This election in the US has been an eye opener to the world. The usually sleazy world of politicking appears to have given way to decency and hope.
Over the last 8 years, America had developed an image of an arrogant selfish nation completely oblivious to basic human values. Run by an old boys’ club devoted [...] Read more:Obama
What does your bag say about you? 2008-11-05 04:53:57 Australian fashionista and media star Eisman Kathryn, who earlier wrote a bestseller titled how to tell a man by his shoes, has just released a witty sequel called How to Tell a Woman by her Handbag.
Here’s what the publisher’s website (Penguin Australia) says about it.
What does your bag say about you? Does your ‘it’ bag [...]
The answer is jute shopping bags 2008-11-04 04:27:43 In an article titled An Inconvenient Bag from the Wall Street Journal, author Ellen Gamerman speaks of how these supposedly ecological polypropylene bags could actually be harmful for the environment.
She’s right. Even though they are reusable, they aren’t as strong as people make them out to be. Any sharp edge and it will rip right [...] Read more:answer
How sassy can YOU get? 2008-11-03 06:31:24 You’ve got to admit that the F word makes that bag interesting and noticeable. If you’d like your own sassy statement on a bag, talk to us today! We’ll enjoy making them for you.
In this article from the Greenmuse.com website Nin J.A.Castle, Creative Director appears to imply that bags imported from the East are inevitably [...]
Witty, colourful and practical, the reusable shopper is today’s slogan T-shirt 2008-11-03 05:43:13 Britain has really picked up on using reusable bags. This story by Alice Fisher from a recent issue of the Guardian suggests that using plastic should become like wearing a fur coat - something that makes you embarrassed. And it is happening. Up and coming new designer David David says ‘The shopper is a billboard [...] Read more:slogan
British villages show the way 2008-10-27 06:05:56 Our “use and throw away” culture needs to change for real change to happen. What’s heartening is the kind of effort people are making.
Hopefully, plastic bags will soon be a thing of the past in a pair of Saddleworth villages.
Greenfield and Grasscroft Residents’ Association (GGRA) has persuaded local shopkeepers to ban free plastic carrier bags [...] Read more:British
Americans are thinking greener 2008-10-25 05:33:59 I just read about a national survey commissioned by a leading American retail chain Plow & Hearth where they found that half of Americans
plan to purchase an environmentally friendly gift this holiday season.
Even more heartening, 66% of them are willing to spend between 10 and 25% more on green gifts.
Women (55%) are more apt [...] Read more:thinking
Promotional bags easily score over all other promotional devices 2008-10-24 04:19:23 To start with Barrack Obama earns a lot of subliminal brownie points every time somebody sees his candidature being promoted on an eco-friendly reusable promotional bag. The message is: This candidate values the environment and is promoting himself tastefully.
Whether you’re promoting a Presidential candidate or a product or a service, you can’t find a more [...]
Plastic bags continue to threaten marine life 2008-10-22 04:44:53 Despite rapidly growing awareness of the harm they do, plastic bags continue to wreak havoc on marine life as you will see in the following article by David Derbyshire from The Daily Mail in the UK.
From the number of large chains (Examples: Wal Mart, Ikea, Tescos) switching to ecologically friendlier options, one would have hoped [...] Read more:Plastic
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