GladRags’ Green Goal: Connect!
Alex and I had a blast at the Seattle Green Festival this past weekend! We were crazy busy, but it was so much fun to meet everyone — from women who’ve been using GladRags for years, to those who’d never even heard of us before.
One young woman spotted our booth and ran up to tell me that she had only heard of the Green Festival because her sister in Minneapolis had told her that GladRags would be there. Another told us, “I hope this isn’t too much information, but I’m using a GladRag right now!” Funnily enough, about five other women told us the same thing over the course of the weekend!
The other exhibitors were just as friendly as the festival attendees. Our fellow Portlanders Honest Tea kept us supplied with delicious beverages (have you tried their kombucha??) and Sandrine swapped two bags from her June 15 collection in exchange for a set of GladRags. Organic Essence let us try their brand-new lip balm (in awesome biodegradable packaging!) and we shared some pantyliners with our booth neighbor to take home to his teenage daughter.
Overall, Seattle was a great experience and one I hope we can repeat at the next Green Festival! More importantly, it reminded me that living a sustainable life shouldn’t be a solitary pursuit. On that note, your Green Goal this week is to get involved with your neighbors, friends, and community to talk about what you’re doing to save the planet. Make connections, get inspired, and support each other in the pursuit of sustainable living!
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June 26th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Great you had a good time.
We have a local Green Festival here in Newcastle, it went off the scene for a little while but came back as good as ever this year. Typical now I don’t have the cash to set up a reusable menstrual product stall, and still need to find a way of getting more people to help, but I’ve got so many ideas. Here in the UK we’re lucky that reusable options seem to be a little more accepted, and Mooncup are doing great work to get the message out about reusable options, so makes doing things like this so much easier