If you purchase these natural yarns the site will somehow preserve at least 1145 square feet of rainforest per skein purchased.
They’ve got lots of other great stuff, but I figured you guys would especially like the yarn.
I bought some of the banana fiber and recycled silk. I can’t wait for them to arrive! I really feel as though buying yarn from this place is justified, even if it does just add to my stash.
Damnit! I wanted the banana fibers one but it doesn’t ship internationally sulk Oh well… I tried to get a ring from thehungersite.com shop too but it didn’t do international either. Shame, cause the things they do send internationally has a very fair international shipping system.
Grrr…
Fi xx
I’m always sceptical of this sort of thing. Can’t find any listing for any legit charity on this.
I must admit…I feel a little like Mason which is NO reflection on the good intentions of the poster (which were lovely indeed). Mason…at the bottom of the site page is a reference to what sounds like a ‘central’ charity group. Is that an organisation you can ring and make an enquiry to? It certainly talks about distributing funds. I guess my eyes raised at the area suggested would be saved per skein. To be honest, I would have found 1 square metre more credible.
It also just struck me why a company wanting to promote environmental causes would sell yarn in a plastic cup…??
I searched around on there, went down to Contact us, then Common Questions and this is what I found:
[I][B] Is The Rainforest Site a nonprofit organization? [/B]
The Rainforest Site is [I]not[/I] a nonprofit organization and cannot accept financial donations directly. [/I]
[I] GreaterGood.org is the nonprofit foundation arm of The Rainforest Site and the GreaterGood Network. GreaterGood.org has applied for and is awaiting its 501©(3) status. When granted, that status will be retroactive to March 21, 2006.
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[I][B] How Do I Know This is Real? [/B]
There are a number of ways you can be assured that The Rainforest Site is for real. [/I]
[I] Read the article on our suite of click-to-give sites, including The Rainforest Site, at Wikipedia.
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Then they list 4 groups for you to contact (physical address, phone, email and web addresses) directly to make sure the group is legit: The Nature Conservancy, Rainforest Conservation Fund, World Land Trust - US, Friends of Calakmul.
They give all the contact info of these groups if you want to confirm this is a honest site.
I’ve been going to thehungersite.com and it’s other forms for about 7 years now - as long as it’s been going, anyway - they’ve done a lot of good works and it’s just a couple of clicks a day.