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green practices

Spending our formative years in the 80s and 90s instilled us with a consciousness of what we, humanity, are doing to our world. Still we, as individuals, can do our bit, however small, to make things better. This is why we strive to be as green as possible:

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    		•  The soles of our sandals are made from a rubber mixture: 70% from used rubber tyres; 30% lightweight durable rubber.
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    		•  Customers are given shoe bags instead of plastic bags, which double as general purpose totes.
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    		•  Used shoes boxes and worn out marketing materials are sent to a recycling company.
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    		•  We use eco-friendly paper for all our marketing collateral e.g. brochures, product tags.

    We are constantly looking for ideas on how to be greener and seeking business partners who can help us become even more eco-friendly. If you have any suggestions, email  gogreen@nuabs.com.
    		 
         





    Today, about 180,000 people around the world will leave the countryside and move to a city. Humans are becoming urban creatures at an accelerating speed. The United Nations calculates that London's population took 130 years to grow from 1m to 8m. Bangkok, Thailand took 45 years. Dhaka, Bangladesh 37. And Seoul, South Korea just 25. In much of Asia, rice is the essence of survival. Poor people in both cities and rural areas spend 1/2 to 3/4 of their incomes on rice - and only rice. Millions of resource-poor farmers eke a living on small parcels of land in remote, mountainous or arid regions. Yet it is estimated they produce as much as 20% of the world's food - largely without the benefit of modern agriculture. Majority of the world's resource-poor farmers are women. They produce more than 1/2 of the food grown around the world. In some regions, as much as 80%. If a girl gets at least 6 years of education, her childbirth survival rate in adulthood will dramatically and consistently improve. The world's poor actually own trillions of dollars' worth of assets. But their houses, plots of land and businesses lacked formal title - and so can't be used to do all the things that people in wealthy countries do to turn a little money into a lot of money. Establishing property rights is a necessary first step.
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