Green Living Stores

The Amish are successfully joining the twenty first century with their own brand of technology.  Donald Kraybill is focusing his attention on this new facet of Amish survival.  He states that there are 2,000 Amish-owned and operated businesses in eastern Pennsylvania, and many of their products are produced by machines.  (Quote from the Dallas Morning News, Saturday, April 26, 2008 in an article by Mary Jacobs.)  What is interesting about the Amish form of technology is that they choose to focus on how their technology benefits the community, rather than how fast they can create a profit.  The result is that they use renewable or low impact power sources such as hydraulic and pneumatic to manufacture their products.  The end result is that their small businesses have a failure rate of only 5% compared to the failure rate of 50% in the United States, by creating lean and profitable businesses.  Their products are focused on creating quality versus quantity.  Their frugality adds to the environment of Green Living by creating products that add to the healthy fabric of their personal society and the people who choose to benefit from their creative force.

I believe that it would aid society as a whole to borrow their principles about how we choose our clothing, food and shelter to replace the use and throw away society we have created.  We do not have to dress and think Amish, but we do need to understand the principles they base their decisions on when we make our choices about when and where we buy.  www.NaturalOrganicClothes.com is focusing on creating this new culture by creating a low impact clothing store that provides quality clothing that takes into account the focus on providing long wearing organic designs in natural and recycled materials.  We want to replace quantity with quality and contribute to the well being of the world we live in by offering only Fair Trade products.  The items we offer may not compete with the department stores in the prices we offer, but we can feel good that the items we sale does not damage the well being of the creators.

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