Green products typically cost more because it takes more time and effort at both the agricultural and manufacturing stages to ensure the earth and its creatures aren’t being harmed.

Organic Cotton farmers for instance don’t rely on quick-fix pesticides, chemical defoliants and synthetic fertilizers to get their crops to market fast and furiously.

They tend to their plants carefully and personally,
which naturally makes for a higher original monetary cost.

I use the word monetary here specifically as although Organic manufacturers will have to pay more for their cotton bales and consumers will have to pay more for their Organic jeans etc., the massive, long-term environmental and health costs associated with regular cotton production are avoided.

Personally, I have no problem paying a premium for any type of product, clothing or otherwise, that is produced in an environmentally sound manner and by workers who enjoy the same freedoms as I do.

Green clothing companies often hold themselves
to ensuring that stakeholders at every stage of a product’s
development earn a respectable living, so this again will
inflate the end price for consumers.

In other words, the price of jeans that are made
organically and fairly will never be the same as those made conventionally and with cheap, off-shore labour.

Keep this in mind the next time your agonizing over a price tag…………………

I love that it is easier every day to find clothing that is cute as well as comparitively “earth saving”.

How it a bad thing to “make scads of money saving the environment” and why does it mean getting rich via a successful, sustainable business makes you “manipulative so called activists”?

Do you have to be poor to care about the earth and its inhabitants – present and future?

Are conscience and capitalism mutually exclusive? Ummm, no. Why should they be? Who cares what the motivation is if the product is good?

yay, for Eco-Friendly Denim!