Fabric donations!
Thank you to Shari Rybak (whom I've known forever!) and to Gayle Brooker from Charleston, SC for recent fabric donations!
Arkansas Bag!
Hi Teresa! Here is my photo. We're using your bag, along with others (now that you have us thinking about it) at Wal-Mart in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Tonight was the first time we've actually remembered to carry bags in! Having your bag and knowing we needed to take a photo finally got us to actually do this. You saved the world from at least 10 plastic bags just today! Thank you very much. I don't know how to sew, but I am going to have to try this. I will pass your info along, too, as it really makes people remember!!! The picture's a little grainy, as it was taken with my phone, but we were just so happy!!
Melanie & Todd Brakeville
Siloam Springs, Arkansas
5/27/2008
Sam and His Bag
This is my former graduate school professor Sam Wang. We are great friends and still go photographing together whenever we are in the same location. Thanks for the wonderful photo from South Carolina Sam!
Teresa
More Fabric!
Wow, I have such yummy fabric surrounding me these days!
Thank you to Christina Z. Anderson for great fabric from Montana!
Also, thank you to Shannon Svensrud who sent darling fabric from California. Shannon and her husband Chris own Pixel Organics. They sell the cutest baby clothes and baby/kids bedding. Visit their store:
www.pixelorganics.com
Thank you to Christina Z. Anderson for great fabric from Montana!
Also, thank you to Shannon Svensrud who sent darling fabric from California. Shannon and her husband Chris own Pixel Organics. They sell the cutest baby clothes and baby/kids bedding. Visit their store:
www.pixelorganics.com
Fabric Donation!
I just picked up a wonderful donation of fabric from a former student/quilter, Beth Eakin. The fabric is great, will make MANY bags and some of the prints are really fun! Thanks Beth! You are wonderful!
32 States!
AR AZ CA CO CT FL GA IL IN KY LA
MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC NE
NJ NY OH OK PA RI SC TN TX VA WI
plus Costa Rica, Cuba and Italy!
MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC NE
NJ NY OH OK PA RI SC TN TX VA WI
plus Costa Rica, Cuba and Italy!
Green Bag Lady--Portland, Maine
Teresa... FINALLY.... I got started...
Your bag arrived on Monday (thank you... it's great!) and yesterday I went to town... could not find the fabric I thought I still had but did go buy some inexpensive denim to make some bags... meanwhile... I began with some light weight denim and quilting fabrics... I have made six so far. Your pattern works very well... I do not have a serger so am stitching, then zigzaging the seams... have worked out a pretty quick order of cut, sew, press, etc.
Thanks for getting me started on a fun project...will see where I can find fabric for both of us!
Please note photo of your bag IN MAINE... that's me in the hallway of my apartment building, Portland.
Will keep you posted as I go.
Hope you are starting to enjoy some vacation time..
Elizabeth
Armon and Easton with Bags
Below Photo, it might surprise you what you find in your bag!
Right Photo, your bag might come in handy for self defense. Plastic can't do that!
Many uses and still FREE!
Even Male Bikers Use Fabric!
This is my friend Armon with his Green Bag Lady bag. It works great for toting cabbage on a motorcycle!
400 bags!
I can hardly believe it. 400 bags out there in use! Don't forget to send me some photos! Also, please post comments. I get so many nice emails from all of you, share your thoughts with everyone!
At the Parthenon this morning. . .
Greece? Don't I wish? I went to the Parthenon here in Nashville and handed out bags to the wonderful people that work there. You can check out the exhibitions and events at the Parthenon:
http://www.nashville.gov/parthenon/
http://www.nashville.gov/parthenon/
The Traveling Vegetarian
Dear Teresa,
Have bag, will travel!
Picture: Yvonne Smith, The Traveling Vegetarian, at Whole Foods with bag #259.
Thanks,
Yvonne
http://thetravelingvegetarian.tv
Fabric donations!
Thank you to June Kingsbury, Randall Harris (of NY) and Denise Gore for their wonderful donations of fabric today!
The Ugly Facts About Plastic Bags
Plastic bags are made of polyethylene
Polyethylene is a petroleum product
Production contributes to air pollution and energy consumption
Four to five trillion plastic bags are manufactured each year
Americans use over 380 billion polyethylene bags per year
Americans throw away approximately 100 billion polyethylene bags per year
Of those 100 trillion plastic bags, 1% are recycled
It takes 1000 years for polyethylene bags to break down
As polyethylene breaks down, toxic substances leach into the soil and enter the food chain
Approximately 1 billion seabirds and mammals die per year by ingesting plastic bags
Plastic bags are often mistaken as food by marine mammals. 100,000 marine mammals die yearly by eating plastic bags.
These animals suffer a painful death, the plastic wraps around their intestines or they choke to death
Plastic bags choke landfills
Plastic bags are carried by the wind into forests, ponds, rivers, and lakes
From the article "Say No to Plastic Bags: The Shocking Facts About Polyethylene Bags" by Julie Burtinshaw
read the whole article at http://environmental-activism.suite101.com/article.cfm/say_no_to_plastic_bags
Polyethylene is a petroleum product
Production contributes to air pollution and energy consumption
Four to five trillion plastic bags are manufactured each year
Americans use over 380 billion polyethylene bags per year
Americans throw away approximately 100 billion polyethylene bags per year
Of those 100 trillion plastic bags, 1% are recycled
It takes 1000 years for polyethylene bags to break down
As polyethylene breaks down, toxic substances leach into the soil and enter the food chain
Approximately 1 billion seabirds and mammals die per year by ingesting plastic bags
Plastic bags are often mistaken as food by marine mammals. 100,000 marine mammals die yearly by eating plastic bags.
These animals suffer a painful death, the plastic wraps around their intestines or they choke to death
Plastic bags choke landfills
Plastic bags are carried by the wind into forests, ponds, rivers, and lakes
From the article "Say No to Plastic Bags: The Shocking Facts About Polyethylene Bags" by Julie Burtinshaw
read the whole article at http://environmental-activism.suite101.com/article.cfm/say_no_to_plastic_bags
Fabric donations!
Thank you to Jennifer Baumgardner from Brooklyn, NY and Lisa Friedman and Jennifer Thomas from right here in Nashville who all donated some great fabric today! Thanks, I was running low!
Shirt Bag
This is Moses Maxen of Greener Nashville (www.greenernashville.org) with a bag that I made out of one of his old shirts. He is in front of the art building here at Belmont University where I teach.
Green Genes
My father is a traveling contractor and does not like to buy a whole lot. He uses cardboard boxes for much of his furniture when he is on the road. He is currently in California. Here is a photo:
Teresa wanted a picture to "prove" I used boxes for furniture. So here you are. I moved my nightstand to the middle of the room for the picture. Note the funky wastebasket. Also the table legs in back, and protective mat. I thought it necessary to show the contents of one drawer of the chest of drawers.
Dad, Papa
Why switch to fabric?
The beautiful landscape of TX is marred by plastic bags. Use fabric! Photos courtesy of Teddi Zonker from Keller, TX.
Thank you!
Thank you to Ashley Strobel and Nancy Cason for the wonderful fabric! Ashley gave me 2 big bolts that will make about 44 bags and Nancy gave me fun monkey fabric that will make 14 bags. You guys are wonderful!
Farmers Market Saturday
www.greenernashville.org
OVER 200!
I just went over 200 bags that I have given away!
I need fabric soon. Stay green and have a good weekend.
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