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I had Simple clogs for a long time when I was working and commuting on the BART from Oakland to San Francisco: they were easy to wear, easy to take off, looked great, and helped my little tootsies keep healthy and happy through blocks of walking.
SimpleShoes.com is where you may find sustainable sandals and bags for women, men, and children. Here are some highlights of their sustainable usage:
1) they use outsoles made of old car tires
2) they use 100% post consumer paper pulp for foot forms
3) they use recycled plastic (PET) for some of their shoes
4) they use bamboo, jute, crepe, and cork (renewable materials) for some of their shoes
5) their adhesive is water-based glue (non-toxic)
6) they were Recycler of the Year for their home community (Santa Barbara) in 2007
7) their parent company, Deckers Outdoor Corporation, requires factories to abide by a number of rulings that control process, contracting, quality, communication, well trained staff, housekeeping, security, and human rights.
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When you purchase goods with an eye towards sustainability, you help people concerned about handmade, recycled, and renewable goods. Our planet only has a “carrying capacity” for a fixed amount of people at our current level of energy usage: if we exceed it, we’re in big trouble (or the next generations will be in big trouble). However, we all may help out by reducing, reusing, and recycling (and stopping extreme purchases of goods made abroad). Buy buying sustainably-created goods, we keep our natural resources protected. By buying locally, we also help our local economies, employ local families and workers, and we keep local knowledge strong.
Consider purchasing your next pair of shoes with a sustainable supplier like SimpleShoes.com: they’ll be a good use of your consumer dollar and they’ll send the message that you care about this kind of thinking.
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