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Company policy and Environmental Concerns

What's up with Nomadic State of Mind sandals?

- thanks for asking. Currenlty alot of our sandals are being made in a small out of work coffee farm in Nicaragua. We taught a small community how to make sandals in hope to produce a job for the community and create a flow of income, and have a lot of fun! Without a lot of fun-who wants a buiness? Chris' social work background desired to creat a small cottage industry in a LDC which a town could benefit from an art project. All of our artists are paid well, and our hopes is to grow the sandal business offering employment for more of the community. Although the cities are beginning to bustle in often forgot about Nicaragua, many jobs are difficult for people out in the country. Our sandal making process is time consuming, and after extensive training our sandal artists hand craft each sandal to perfection! WE have been successfully working out of Nicaragua for a few years now!

In regards to waste and environmental impact. Sandal production produces some waste, in which we recycle a lot of it into our rugs, which also produces work/income in the off season. These rugs can sometimes be found on our website, and they can be custom made for YOU! This fall 2007 we have created some handbags, which are made from our scraps from sandal production spring 07! Enjoi.

It was my desire to create a product where there was virtually no waste- almost there - about 85% of our waste can be recycled into other products.

Packaging- Excessive packaging is ultimately annoying. When you receive your sandals they are in a usps mail bag and tied together with a string. There is no “shoe box”, which we feel is a waste of both money and cardboard. We have a sizing/info tag attached to the sandal. That’s about it. We do what we have to appease our shipping needs, and nothing more. If you order a bunch of sandals they might come in a liquor box which we reuse from the local liquor store.

Our future goals and recyclability of used sandals. When our volume reaches and amount where it makes sense to attempt re extrusion project we are on it. We got a long way to go for that.

When we introduce new products, or friends products we attempt to evaluate environmental impact, energy conservation, and fun (fun,fun,fun) things.

On the micro level. We switched over to solar power for our live stores at festivals. A small investment of a solar panel, deep cycle battery, and a few low energy light bulbs lights up our booth at night! We are looking into doing that in a bigger way in the future for our other energy consumption, researching the best ideas. There are many alternative energy evolutions currently happening, making this an exciting time to be breathing!

If you ever have any ideas or suggestions, we are all ears. Love you people!

What's new with Nomadic state of Mind and the organic Tshirts?

WE use domestically grown and sewn certified organic cotton, where we can (currently tshirts), and will change the hoody's over when they are available in domestically grown and sewn cotton. As a world, we now know a better way to farm (organic) Organic farming eliminates the use of herbicides, toxic defoliants, and synthetic fertilizers. Organic farming is non toxic way to farm; which in return helps protect our future generations and our planet. This is sustainable farming. Promoting a positive future outlook.

"BE the change you want to see"

The ultimate goal of “sustainable cotton” is to move sustainable production, manufacturing and use practices throughout the cotton value chain in order to create a healthy and profitable industry for growers, their communities, manufacturers, retailers and users of all cotton products.

The conventional cultivation of cotton leads to massive environmental and health problems. Around the world, more toxic insecticides are used on cotton than on any other crop. A sustainable alternative is the certified organic cultivation of the "white gold". The farmers have only a chance to convert their production into a controlled organic cultivation of cotton if there is sufficient demand for organic cotton. Although laborious in the beginning, the conversion is worthwhile. WE want help be the sufficient demand for organic cotton.

If you have any questions comments or ideas please email us. We welcome your feedback.

peace.love.good times.