Getting Greenpeace Up to Speed

My friend Melody works for another great Portland company, Emerita . They make the healthy lube we sell as well as other great women's bodycare products. She travels all the time and recently had an encounter with a fellow air traveler who happened to be a Greenpeace employee. Thanks for spreading the word, Melody!

--Brenda

The other day I educated a Greenpeace canvasser on the importance of reusable menstrual products. It was really a ‘preaching to the choir’ moment, but still something well worth documenting.

What started out as the Greenpeace canvasser’s pitch, (I’ll call him Greg), on the evils of Kimberly Clark cutting down old growth trees quickly extended into my diatribe on how we should all stop the use of paper towels, use hemp toilet paper despite the likely roughness we may experience and demand that Kimberly Clark seek sustainable supply chains or halt their paper business altogether. Greg was a taken back, but engaged in my oration.

The segue into reusable menstrual products came when I compared a local Portland company’s business model to Kimberly Clark’s agenda of waste and massive scale environmental destruction. I told Greg about GladRags, and how the company’s concept of using soft, washable, reusable cloth for a woman’s menstrual cycle is an idea that can bring us back to earth, to living more sustainably.

“Greg!” I excitedly exclaimed, “This is something every woman can do to cut down on her environmental impact! Does Greenpeace know about GladRags?!”

Greg nodded in agreement and appreciated that I was passionate about alternative menstrual options. He politely interrupted me as I started to give details about my GladRags pantyliner experience on a recent flight back East, by asking if would consider renewing my Greenpeace membership.

Noticing the wedding band on his ring finger I confirmed that Greg was indeed married and obliged to renew my Greenpeace membership on one condition, that he pledge to tell his wife and other women in his life about GladRags and we can use our menstrual cycles to save the planet, one GladRags at time.