Our E-Tote Express vehicle has been out and about. Check our Facebook and Twitter pages to see where it will be next and our friendly driver will give you a tote bag for free! Last week it was seen at Mt. Sunapee for some skiing on beautiful snow conditions. If you spot it in your area let us know or post your favorite photo.
Here is our customer Andrew hanging out in NYC with his favorite bag he designed for Gigantic. We love photos from our customers. Thanks Andrew!
Each month Tote Talk will post a favorite bag choice and some background information about it. This month’s winner is: Puinsai Clothing Co.
Being a brand from Hawaii, PUINSAI Clothing Co. has adopted the responsibility to “Spread the Aloha” around the world. If you are unfamiliar with the meaning of “aloha,” Pilahi Paki, a time honored figure of Hawaii’s past, best described it. She wrote, “Aloha is the coordination of mind and heart . . . it’s within the individual. It brings you down to yourself. You must think and emote good feelings to others.”
PUINSAI Clothing Company’s tagline is “Spread the Aloha” and this is exactly what the company intends to do. Join them in recognizing each item in their line as the embodiment of “Aloha.”
Mahalo!
Another great picture sent to us from our customer at ThinkImpact:
Thank you again for your assistance last Spring. The bags you helped us design were a big hit on our summer programs in Africa!
I wanted to attach a photo of our bag literally being used “in the field.”
Thanks again!
Jess
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Each month Tote Talk will post a favorite bag choice and some background information about it. This month’s winner is: Doris New York Hair Care Products
Here is a fabulous photo and note from the owner of Doris New York Hair Care Products:
Hi!!! This is awesome! WE and everyone are loving the bags! They are so amazing! We need to order more soon. Here is an amazing photo of myself and actress “Nicole Ari Parker” married to that gorgeous hunk Boris Kodjoe!!! (swoon) lol! I think you will love it!
Thanks again!! YOU ROCK!!!!!!!! :)
Marlene
Co-Owner/SVP
Doris New York Hair Care Products
400 bags packed and ready to go!
One very successful program many of our school and college customers utilize Enviro-Tote bags for is a Textbooks-2-Go event. When students register early for classes a reusable tote bag is filled with the books they will need for their upcoming curriculum. On registration day the students can pick up their materials pre-packed in their very own canvas tote and be on their way.
Recently Berkshire School held an event like this and sent us a photo of the bags ready to go. They used 400 Custom-sized bags with their school seal to pre-pack the textbooks for their students. Enviro-Tote bags are also very strong and made to last. The handles are triple stitched and the bags are never thrown away but reused over and over again- making them a useful promotional item with a very small carbon footprint.
Each month Tote Talk will post a favorite bag choice and some background information about it. This month’s winner is: the Curtis
Funky, cool and playful, the Curtis – a Doubletree by Hilton is a unique boutique hotel located in the heart of downtown Denver. A member of Hilton Hotels Worldwide and part of the award-winning Hilton HHonors® guest reward program, the 336-room hotel is as pop culture as they come, with interactive video art and themed floors. Owned and managed by Sage Hospitality Resources, the Curtis has everything that a veteran traveler would expect of an upscale hotel and more, with the luxurious Sweet Dreams® by Doubletree sleep experience and flat screen TVs in all guest rooms, high-speed Internet access available throughout the hotel, extensive meeting space and in-room board games to keep travelers inspired. Also within the hotel are Sage Restaurant Group’s The Corner Office Restaurant + Martini Bar and Oceanaire’s steak and seafood restaurant. For more information, call (800) 525-6651 or visit www.thecurtis.com.
This year has been a popular one for Wedding Bags. Many customers are finding that tote bags make a wonderful favor for the big day. Here is one of many nice testimonials we’ve received from customers who have given out tote bags on their special day:
“So nice of you to check in! They were a hit! Everyone loved them. People said the bags made them feel so welcome and set the tone for an amazing wedding weekend. I use my bag all the time!
You and your company were such a pleasure to work with. Thank you again!
Best,
Jill”
Each month Tote Talk will post a favorite bag choice and some background information about it. This month’s winner is: Wartburg State University
“Our bags were purchased as a result of a survey conducted by our student senate on sustainability. Students indicated through the survey that they would participate more in recycling if they had a container to carry the items from their rooms to the recycling stations outside the halls.
We decided as a team a bag would be easier for staff to manage, could be laundered and was less likely to be used for garbage, not to mention lower priced. Our Student Senate was willing to pay for the project, so they were the decision makers for the final product. Our sustainability department asked Senate to consider the Enviro-Tote bags because they were made in the USA of recycled materials; it seemed like a full circle. They were thrilled with the idea and on board from the beginning.
The Enviro-Tote staff are great to work with and the bags are a great quality. The design staff was wonderfully patient with us amateur designers and helped us format our design to be ready to print. We received rapid response to questions and had great service all the way through the process, even after we signed the contract.
When the bags were delivered to our College we were thrilled, they looked amazing. Unfortunately we now had to hand out over 500 bags and due to other circumstances we lost our labor pool and students were already starting to move back in. Thankfully our student orientation staff chose to help. 32 students arrived on campus early to train to orient the first year students and part of their training included a service project as a team building experience. With their support we stormed the residence halls and finished the job in 3 1/2 hours leaving a hook and bag in every room on campus. Without their support this would have cost our college over $1,200 in labor and taken over a week.
Our students have been happy with the bags and appreciate the effort the college is making to be more sustainable. They have even noticed that the bags are recycled which seems to get some students thinking about seeing recycled items for other parts of their life.”
Photos by Julie Drewes
Each month Tote Talk will post a favorite bag choice and some background information about it. This month’s winner is: The National Parks Conservation Association
NPCA is sponsoring a field trip to Cumberland Island National Seashore on September 23rd for High Tides Women’s Weekend. The bags will be perfect for folks to carry their sunscreen, bug spray, snacks and water, and the we love the fact that they are made from 100% post consumer recycled PET (soda) bottle material and pretty darn waterproof for the boat ride over.
Emily Jones
Here is a nice thank you that was sent to us from the UF Young Entrepreneurs for Leadership & Sustainability. These bright, young adults of the future enjoyed using our Messenger Bag (pictured below).
Craig Technologies donated the totes to the Bridges Golf Classic, a fundraiser to support a range of programs for children and adults with disabilities in Brevard County, including several new programs such as a Transitional Veteran’s Home, CEDAR Academy (K through G2), Home Care for Seniors and the Space Coast Disability Chamber.
Here are some photos of the totes in action. You can find out more about the charity on-line, http://www.MyBridges.org.
Each month Tote Talk will post a favorite bag choice and some background information about it. This month’s winner is: 2 Lucky Lads
Liam (age 10) and Declan (age 8) Miller are American boys currently living in Tokyo, Japan because their father works at the US Embassy in Tokyo. The Miller family moved to Japan in August 2010 from New Delhi, India. The boys have lived and traveled in many different countries and have come to understand how lucky we are to be Americans. They started a small charity called “2 Lucky Lads” in January 2011 and began planning their tote bag project. They decided to use their original poetry for the bag design. Unfortunately, in March of this year, a 9.0 earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear emergency hit Japan. The boys were evacuated from Tokyo for a month but returned to Japan ready to help. The boys decided to focus their fundraising on the needs of Japanese kids in the north who were affected by the tsunami’s devastation. 100% of money raised will be donated to Save the Children – Japan.
“Liam and Declan hope to sell bags outside of Japan in the near future. If you’d like to help Japan now, please consider donating to Save the Children-Japan or the International Red Cross.”
Each month Tote Talk will post a favorite bag choice and some background information about it. This month’s winner is: Bushwick Farmers’ Market
Bushwick Farmers’ Market is a project of EcoStation:NY, a nonprofit group working in Brooklyn, New York, promoting environmental awareness through a need shared by us all: food! In addition to the market, EcoStation also engages in “urban ag,” and is currently working with Bushwick Green Team on developing a small farm, where student volunteers from three high schools are learning about where “real food” comes from. EcoStation wishes to thank NYC Council Member Diana Reyna for supporting the market – and making these awesome tote bags possible!
Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez with Bushwick Farmers’ Market staff and supporters.
There were too many good tote bags to choose from this month so we are posting them all! The first one is Squam Art Workshops:
The other runner up is the Corrales Community Library:
