Earning money by making a difference !!

An Iowa City business owner is helping bring canvas shopping bags to retail stores with help from the University of Iowa's Small Business Development Center. What a perfect way to do business!! Not only do you earn money, but you do so by doing good towards nature.

The company manufactures and distributes reusable canvas bags to replace the paper and plastic bags used by consumers every day and supplies 51 grocery stores in Iowa, including chains and small stores. Organizations are buying bags to give away as promotional items, schools have used the bags as fundraisers and libraries are using them for book bags.

The owner started the business to help people make a difference in the world, if in no other way than by reducing the number of plastic and paper bags sent to landfills. Each year, she said, 100 billion plastic bags end up in landfills, where they take 500 to 1,000 years to decompose. Using reusable shopping bags is an easy and convenient way to become more responsible consumers.

I've known many companies who make ecological, earth-saving bags. One that comes to mind is a company called Kope Initiatives based in Ahmedabad, in India. These folks design custom bags to suit special needs, based on expectations received from customers. If you're looking for promotional bags, visit www.kopeinitiatives.in.