Blog posts tagged with 'eco-friendly'

If you're trying to be mindful of your environmental impact, it makes sense to look for eco-friendly products as alternatives to single-use, disposable items. It's much easier to adjust to an eco-conscious lifestyle than you think, you just need to know what to look for before you get to the store.

Jute is one of the most affordable natural fibers, and second only to cotton in the amount produced and variety of uses. Jute fibers are composed primarily of the plant materials cellulose and lignin. Jute is called ‘The Golden Fibre’ mainly due to its color, and also because it is a cash crop and generates revenue.

Channapatna. It is the name of a small town between Bangalore and Mysore. But more often than not, the name evokes images of beautiful, colorful toys that had us enthralled as children and still make us remark at their exquisite craftsmanship. If ever toys made a town, this would be it, as the Geographical Indicator tag on Channapatna also confers.

In a world that’s bogged down by plastic toys, wooden toys are open-ended, stimulating and also bring the outside world right into the play room. In this multi-part series we will read more about the natural colors and safety standards of Channapatna Toys.

Zero waste focuses on the trash problem (at the consumer level) and the closed-loop cycle of production and consumption (at the systematic level). You can read more about this here.