The Original RainSkirt

As of January 2009, our adult garments will be made from 100% recycled, recyclable materials. We will post more details about these sustainable fabrics in the weeks to come.

During the development phase of our business, we worried about what impact our products would have on the environment. Sure, we comforted our souls with the idea that we were doing all we could to be green by promoting a more sustainable paradigm—promoting public transit, using surplus fabric from other companies to make our skirts, shipping without extra packaging, and making durable products—but that was never enough.

We wanted to do better, and knew it was possible.

Emergent Designs is happy to announce that 1% of our sales revenues will be donated to Project Laundry List. This group of dedicated citizens advocates for our right to dry clothing outside using nature’s free, safe, and effective nuclear power plant: the sun. Line drying not only preserves the life of clothing, it reduces the demand for domestic energy production which in turn decreases our demands on the natural world.

Emergent Designs strives to make products which are as green as possible. However, shipping could easily void any gains made if done without an eye toward sustainability.

After much thought and research, we decided we will ship our products in Tyvek envelopes. The envelopes are made of a recycled material, are recyclable, and are tear and water resistant. After considering virgin and recycled cardboard, we finally realized that volume matters as much as material.

What?! How could shipping something in a plastic envelope be more ecologically sound than shipping it in a tree-based package? It seems counter-intuitive.