We just found a really great and comprehensive place to buy all sorts of green & ethical gifts, home decor, clothes and more, all with a very unique style. You won’t find many of these items anywhere else and they will leave a lasting impression if you are purchasing a gift.
Example “COOL” items we love:
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Count the Minutes
COG DESK CLOCK
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It’s a bit more delicate looking than their usual handiwork, but you can still tell that this clock is made by Graham Bergh and his team of artists from Portland, Oregon who create new uses for discarded bicycle and auto parts. From a bicycle cog to the frame for a shiny quartz ticker, another piece of useable metal has been rescued. The white face has pretty black scripted numerals, and thin hour, minute and second hands. It’s light, fits in the palm of your hand, and rests easily on an unobtrusive stand. Handmade in Oregon.
$28.00
Digital Delight
DIGITAL PHOTO ALBUM - CRIMSON
The crimson silk Dupioni cover of this photo album conceals a clever secret: This is not your basic album. Made to help you keep up with the new digital age, the book is a clever way for you to show off those precious family photos. Simply print your pictures on the inkjet coated pages and organize in the screw post album. The clever construction allows you to add and rearrange the 20 acid-free pages with ease, creating a one of a kind book filled with special memories. Refills are available. Also comes in daisy, pear, or floral. Handmade in Rhode Island by Jason Thompson.
$48.00
Chain in Vain
CHAIN BRACELET Show your strength and style with these bike chains from Graham Bergh and his team of artists from Mosier, Oregon who create new uses for discarded bicycle and auto parts. This chain link bracelet wraps around your wrist as easily as it used to spin around sprockets. The metal chains close with a secure clasp. If you’re a biker, you’ll never have to leave your sport behind. And if you’re just in for some fun jewelry, we’ve got you covered. Choose from two lengths.Handmade in Oregon.
$14.00
Here are the types of things uncommongoods.com focuses on:
A Positive Impact: In the Workplace, In the World
To us, sustainability means more than just being “green.” We believe sustainability starts with integrity in everything we do, treating each individual inside and outside our company with dignity and respect, offering health insurance to all our full-time (and most part-time) employees and providing a living wage.Handmade, Recycled and Organic Products
We’re committed to offering you a creative and exciting merchandise assortment and are working with our suppliers - from artists to small manufacturers - to make their products in a more socially and environmentally responsible manner. Since we started our business, we have featured products that contain recycled components and all the items we sell are produced without harm to animals.Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
We are an Internet and catalog company, and we understand that by producing a catalog we use the earth’s resources. We try our best to minimize that impact by shifting more business online, limiting how many catalogs we mail, and printing our catalogs on either recycled paper (virtually all of which is from 30% post-consumer waste) or paper sourced from FSC certified forests (which are harvested in a sustainable manner).Social Venture Network (SVN)
SVN is a community of businesses and social leaders that work to create a just and sustainable world through business. UncommonGoods, along with other companies such as Ben and Jerry’s, Clif Bar & Co and Google, was selected to be a part of this socially conscious network of businesses that value “healthy communities and the human spirit as well as high returns.”Better To Give
Giving back is important to us and we want to share this passion with our customers. That’s why we created the Better to Give Program in 2001, which allows you to select a non-profit organization to receive a $1 donation from us at checkout. We have selected Defenders of Wildlife, Americares, Comprehensive Development, Inc. (CDI), and Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF), all of which are non-profits whose missions match our company values. UncommonGoods also partners with select vendors to make matching contributions to community organizations, including Vilmain (New Urban Arts in Rhode Island) and Riverside Design (four Pittsburgh-area non-profits). In 2007, we contributed over $60,000 through all our non-profit partnerships.B Corporation
UncommonGoods is proud to be a founding member of B Corporation, an organization created to help customers understand the social and environmental impact of their purchases. The B seal means that a company has met the standards outlined in a comprehensive screening questionnaire, which evaluates a company on issues ranging from providing a living wage, to lessening their impact on the environment, to giving back to the community.As the founder of UncommonGoods, I am committed to our sustainability effort and would welcome you to send any ideas you have to sustain@uncommongoods.com.
