One percent

[matsoberg]

I was introuduced to this site and felt I liked what I saw:
http://www.feltsoulmedia.com/main.html

When clicking around that site I came upon this:
http://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/en/

I just wanted to know if any of you have seen this before, or have any knowledge about it? My first thougt was that I suddenly felt the Patagonia brand (among all others mentioned) was an option for me in the future.

North America - 876 menbers
Europe - 135 members
Asia - 21 menbers
Oceania - 10 members
South America - 5 members
Africa - 1 member


As for myself, I get some good vibes seeing profitable companies caring a bit for the earth they make their profit from.

[SnooKen]

Patagonia got on board with this program very early on due to the ethics of the company founder/owner, Y. Chouinard. Been my experience that for the most part corporations that get involved in these kinds of efforts are those that are controlled by a single person rather than a board of directors. Kind of reinforces my belief that we humans tend to be better individually than as a group(present company of course excluded ). I wish more companies would join the program and a couple of additional percentage points would be nice as well, eh.

Mats, Patagonia would be a good company to contact about Skogen Forest.

[adam]

I'm adding in the Patagonia 1% link at the bottom.

At one point, I had limited sponsorship by Patagonia, great company. I have many of their jackets, capilene garmets, board shorts, rash guards and sun clothing. Patagonia is a great company, something unravels or rips, you call them, they send you a new one with a envelope to send back the old.

They have a program that you can re-cycle your old Patagonia garmets with them.

Great company, you will not go wrong choosing Patagonia.

[matsoberg]

Well, Patagonia has always been in the picture when I´ve been looking for stuff because of their high quality, but now another dimension enters when I´m on the market for something. There are 800 companies on that list.

I´m not one that buy stuff all the time. I like to get a good item and then wear/use it out before I get something new (bamboo rods and old reels not included).

But that´s not really the point here. I just got those good vibes when I entered the 1 percent site. It felt like these guys hit the nails head. Making profit but giving something back to where it all comes from.

I´m actaully thinking of joining them. Maybe my elevator business won´t benefit from their logo, but at least I know I did something...

[greg hall]

Yvon Chouinard started this program. The second company who joined up was Craig Matthews' Blue Ribbon Flies. The last I heard there are now 750 companies participating though none are publicly owned, all private. BTW, that's 1% of gross sales, not gross profit or net profit!

If you go to You Tube and do a search for Yvon Chouinard you will find some great speeches he has given to various groups. I think it's really worth the time. I know it opened up our minds to what can be done and how to do them. I don't know if the program is open to individuals but I'm going to look into it.

[JeremyG]

This is a great post/topic. I saw Y. Chouinard on a PBS program last year and it profiled the guy and what he stood for, how he came about and his company ethics.

I came away from the tube feeling totally in awe and impressed by the guy. Imagine how the world would be if the rest of the companies/products were of this nature/caliber...

I'm referring to our current affairs with this economy, it's bailout, where the initial $350 billion has gone and the enormity of some of the egos of many CEO's etc.


I'll go now....really...

That guys impressive!

[clo]

Check out the web specials portion of their site often and you can get some pretty good deals as well.Right now they have waders,boots,and a few packs for little $$.And I must say that the capilene fuzz makes good dubbing too.And if you get a chance look at the film ''three dollar bridge'' from the felt soul media boys it explains the one percent philosophy from the two that founded it,pretty good flik!

[matsoberg]

I´ve done some more checking on Chouinard and I´m gettin more and more impressed. If he would aim for politic´s I´d vote for him.

As for the Feltsole Media guys, they also give me good vibes with their work. I´d like to get a link to show a clip or so from the "Three Dollar Bridge" film if it´s possible?

// Mats

[aguafria]

ask and ye shall receive...
http://vimeo.com/3064727

[matsoberg]

Hell yeah!