Bag Company Makes Great Products and Donates to Sierra Club

Reader Contribution by Staff
Published on March 7, 2012
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I think of a handbag in the same way I think of a garden tool: I want something that was made by a company I feel good about supporting and I want a product that will last forever (or close to forever). I’m happy to pay a little more upfront for a high-quality bag that I won’t have to replace in a few years.

The Ellington Handbag company is a group of dedicated people working out of a little building in Portland, Ore. They’re a small crew, but as the tags on their products state, they dream big and are ready to change the world — one bag at a time.

They make a wide selection of travel bags, purses, totes, wallets and more, and during the entire month of April (2012) Ellington is going to donate 20 percent of all sales of the Joni Series of bags (Joni Hobo, Joni Crossbody, Joni Wallet on a String) sold in the month of April on their website to the environmental non-profit organization Sierra Club.

I’ve been using the Joni Crossbody bag in brown (pictured above), and I really love it. It’s compact, which keeps me from carrying around a whole bunch of junk I don’t need. The bag is obviously of very high quality but isn’t too “flashy,” which a lot of women’s bags are these days.

Many of Ellington’s bags are made at an award-winning environmentally responsible tannery that uses efficient processes to reduce water consumption, energy use and CO2 emissions.

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