Isabel Aagaard is an entrepreneur and collaborative designer on a mission to eliminate single-use plastic by creating reusable alternatives to single-use items we use daily. She’s the creator of the world’s first reusable cotton swab, LastSwab, which raised more than 1.2M USD from more than 30,000 backers on crowdfunding platforms. Her products are made to last more than 1000 times […]
If you’ve ever seen my Instagram, you know I’m just a guy who wants to make my life a little more environmentally friendly. I started Verdant Growth as a way of challenging myself to be better for the environment; to do things that help slow climate change, reduce pollution, and help the environment and all things living in it. I […]
Eco bags are gaining popularity as alternatives to plastic grocery bags. But are they really as eco as people want to believe? Let’s dive into it in the video version of Are Eco Bags Really ECO? For the blog version, you can find it at: https://verdantgrowth.blog/?p=225
As you may have read in my last blog post, The Case for Reusable Shopping Bags, reusable shopping bags are the newly popular alternative to plastic grocery bags you get at the supermarket. However, if not used properly, (i.e. used at least hundreds of times) they can actually be WORSE for the environment than if you just used plastic grocery […]