Go Jute help out Ethical Junction

Go Jute recently donated 300 to Ethical Junction for their stand at the Camden Green Fair

Ethical Junction took a stand – at the Camden Green Fair that is! A warm day without rain brought the crowds streaming into Regents Park, which meant plenty of visitors to our stand. We were there to promote our ethical business network, its members and to discuss & encourage ethical consumerism. And it went very well indeed!

Many EJ Members had kindly donated discount vouchers, samples, leaflets, brochures & postcards for goodies to be placed in jute & cotton bags as giveaways. All the public had to do was have a little chat with the EJ Team about the network & sign up to Ethical Pulse - in return they received a free goodie bag. ‘A fair trade' a visitor said!

We would like to thank Go Jute, Green Cotton Bags, Natural Collection, Indigo Furniture, Bridge End Images Ltd, Faith & Frank, Allthingseco, Innocent Oils, Green Union, Absolution Saves, Fill Your Pants, Organic Boutique, FoneAid, Saathay, Boutiko, Feral (UK) Ltd, Janey Lee Grace, Animal Aid, Shared Interest, The Natural Shop, Little Eco Warriors, Forest Secret Skincare, Low & Behold, Conscious Elegance, The Laundry, Bubble House Worms, Beyond Skin Care, Lucy Rose, Beauty Natural, Smartly Green and Jungleberry for their great donations.

By the end of the day all the goodie bags were handed out, we had hundreds more Pulse subscribers and few more businesses interested in joining us - proving that the ethical movement is most certainly growing.

World Television Film Festival goes green with Go Jute

How Do I Love Thee, Green? Let Me Count The Ways।

At BANFF, we're as committed to the environment as we are to television. We listened to what delegates had to say about last year's Festival and this June, BANFF is undergoing a complete eco-overhaul through initiatives designed to reduce our impact on the planet.
We believe in sourcing and supporting sustainable projects which reduce waste and energy consumption. For us it's not just lip service and we're striving to put our money where our mouths are. From the purchasing of carbon credits to off-set transportation, to providing more recycling stations throughout the conference centre, to finding ways to eliminate paper waste, these are some of the unique ways in which we're "greening up" at BANFF and making a conscious effort to reduce our Carbon Footprint.

New Jute Delegate Bags!
As a fresh departure from the traditional synthetic fibre nylon bags that most conferences use, this year we're shaking it up with a more environmentally sustainable delegate bag.
BANFF is launching a brand new era in developing a greener conference bag. We're moving away from the traditional synthetic vinyl conference bags, and embracing a more eco-friendly, 100% biodegradable, fair trade delegate bag made from jute; a pesticide-free rain-fed crop and vegetable fibre. Knowing that these gems are made in India by an ISO (International Organization for Standardization) company with very strict regulations and that the airplane shipping of these bags is carbon-offset through donations to pollution reduction projects, you can carry your guilt-free jute conference bag with pride . We're doing the tree-hugging for you so that you can spend more time networking and establishing the relationships that you need to business.

One of our latest

Things are still going from strength to strength with our lovely values based jute bags and promotions company with clients all over the world now. But still with an ever growing local and national base centered from Cornwall.

We had a great Royal Cornwall Show and I'll put an update about that very soon... 

Stephens & Scowns Go Jute

Stepehens and Scowns, a forward thinking Solicitors distributed our Go Jute bags to all the attendees at this year's Pre-Cornwall Lecture Workshops and contained publications from the SWRDA on Sustainable Growth, State of the South West, from the South West Observatory, and railway timetables from First Great Western. The provision of Jute bags reflected the sustainability themes under discussion. Go Jute is a recently established Cornish based company and it was an excellent opportunity to support their growing business. Supply of the www.gojute.co.uk jute bags has achieved CarbonZero status - with Jute able to convert CO2 to oxygen 2.5 times faster than trees in the same growth period!

Those plastic bag bugbears

People in Britain use an average of 300 plastic bags every year. Each bag lasts up to 400 years, spending the vast majority of that time in a landfill site or strewn across the British countryside. People are becoming increasingly aware that we need to reduce our use of plastic bags.

In Ireland, a tax of 15cents per bag resulted in a 90% drop in plastic bag usage, and raised 3.5 million Euros which was spent on environmental projects. Bangladesh has banned polythene bags altogether while Taiwan and Singapore are taking steps to discourage their use.

Please take a moment to sign the petition at http://www.green-england.co.uk/plasticbagpetition to introduce a similar tax (to be spent on environmental projects) of 10p per bag in Britain.