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Ettitude Parties

Host a Party

EttitudeEttitude has designed a new party plan opportunity to try and sell eco-friendly products from your own home. Whether a gathering with friends and family, a baby shower or a mum’s get-together, Ettitude can tailor the party to your specific needs.

In addition to giving you the opportunity to feel and try Ettitude’s eco friendly fabrics, sourced from socially responsible manufacturers and selected according to a strict process that ensures that their products are original, organic and efficient, hosts will receive lots of free products. Rewards include receiving 15% of total sales made from the party, as well as $10 to spend on Ettitude products for every new party booking.

Ettitude parties are easy to organise, with consultants provide everything that’s needed. All the host has to do is invite the guests, provide somewhere to hold the party (like your living room!), and food and drinks if you want to. The Ettitude 3e party is eco friendly, easy and enjoyable, a perfect opportunity to shop for stylish, practical and ethical products.

Ettitude Products

Bamboo towelsEttitude is a company that specialises in providing environmentally sustainable baby clothing, towels, sheets, quilt covers, accessories and laundry products. The bamboo baby clothing and towels are natural soft, highly absorbant, anti static, antimicrobial, hypoallergenic, odor resistant, and beautifully silky. In addition, bamboo fiber is 100% biodegradable and one of the world’s greatest renewable forest resources. This is because it is the world’s fastest growing plants and can grow all over our planet, and in addition does not need chemical fertlisers or pesticides to grow.

Ettitude also produces baby clothing from organic cotton. Conventionally produced cotton is one of the most environmentally harmful textiles manufactured due to the amount of water and pesticides used, as well as all the chemicals used in manufacture from bleaching to dyeing and fabric softening. Organic cotton uses no pesticides, herbicides or insecticides, and then natural dyes.

Ettitude

Who is Ettitude?

Natural Baby ClothesEttitude produces original, stylish and practical products that are environmentally friendly. Believing that developing ethical products is not only possible but also achievable, the company is committed to providing only eco-friendly products in line with the principle of sustainable development. As a result, all materials are sourced from socially responsible manufacturers and crafspeople

Apart from being eco-friendly, Ettitude is also people-friendly. Their products must also be low-allergenic, original (such as the Yak Down products), and cost efficient. By using organic materials cultivated naturally, whether organic cotton or bamboo fibre, their products are free from pesticides, herbicides and toxic chemicals. These materials also contain naturally many beneficial properties such as being antimicrobial, hypoallergenic and odor resistant. Ettitude’s products are of premium quality and must conform to rigorous criteria before being approved. However, they will also save you money, and be delivered to your door quickly and without fuss.

Ettitude Products

Organic Baby SuitEttitude offers a range of eco- and people- friendly products, from organic bamboo or cotton baby clothing, to yak down accessories such as mittens, hats, scarfs and ear muffs.

The yak down products are incredibly soft and warm, are machine washable and come in stylish designs. Ettitude also offers environmentally friendly laundry products that are toxin, allergy and sodium lauryl sulphate free, gentle on clothes and refillable. These include laundry balls, dryer balls, and stain sticks.

Ettitude has a variety of bamboo bed and bath products, such as face towels, kitchen towels, quilt cover and sheet sets, dish clothes and hand towels. The moisture absorption of these bamboo bed and bath products are 4 times greater than normal cotton, anti static, warm in winter and cool in summer.

The bamboo baby clothing is particularly special, as it is super soft, 60% more absorbent than normal cotton, naturally antibacterial and antifungal, machine washable, breathable and protects from UV rays.

Environmental Sustainability

Defining Environmental Sustainbility

Environmental Sustainability‘Environmental sustainability’ is a concept that is not easy to define, and in fact has over 300 definitions produced by academics, governments, and organisations. One of the more recognised definitions is produced by the World Commission on Environment and Development. This organisation was established by the United Nations in 1983 in recognition that environmental problems were global in nature and that it was in the interests of all to establish policies and practices for sustainable development. The concept of sustainable development was defined as “forms of progress that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.” These needs are both social and economic, and will be affected by accelerating deterioration of the human environment and natural resources.

Sustainability‘ is about the capacity to endure and is inherently long-term in nature. The idea of sustainable development is that humanity has been concerned only with short-term benefits which have now been recognised to have significant long-term consequences. As a result, the Business Dictionary defines ‘environmental sustainability’ as “maintaining the factors and practices that contribute to the quality of environment on a long-term basis”. This definition is slightly different to the previous one, as it has more of a focus on continuity whereas the former focuses more on change, on developing policies, on forms of progress.

Unsustainable Living

Renewable EnergyEnvironmental sustainability has become an increasingly political issue since around the 1980s, rather than a purely ecological concept. As science has shown that humanity is increasingly functioning in unsustainable ways, demands for change have become louder and louder.

It is a concept that relates to a very diverse range of issues, from population growth, the consumption of non-renewable resources (such as fossil fuels), the disruption of natural ecosystems (including everything from species extinction to climate change), individual lifestyles (including cultures of consumerism and materialism), agricultural and business practices, social organisation (e.g. sustainable cities, preservation of local culture), waste disposal (recycling and reduction) and the development of technology to improve sustainable practices (green technology, renewable energy).