As Aspen Bag Ladies, we have certainly been called bizarre, but to be in Bazaar, as in Harper’s Bazaar the magazine? Who woulda thunk it?

We are so proud to have made “The Hot List” in the March 2010 issue … Check it out!

One of the wonderful things about living in a place like Aspen is the small town setting that allows the Aspen Bag Ladies to rub elbows with some of the world’s most inspired and talented people — but a Kennedy?

Since we started Potatote, our worlds have been cracked open in terms of joining forces with other environmental activists who are doing their part to create change in a tangible way, by using new technologies to cut down on the waste and toxicity that’s not only killing our environment, but killing us too.

Kennedy is an environmental activist and attorney who was named one of Time Magazine’s “Heroes for the Planet” for his fight with Riverkeeper to restore New York’s Hudson River. That group’s work led to nearly 200 Waterkeeper organizations around the world, dedicated to preserving fishable, swimmable and drinkable waterways for
future generations. Kennedy called Aspen a very forward thinking community with great energy idealism and commitment.

Over 100 of Aspen’s change-makers and trend-setters gathered for the Waterkeeper Alliance Eco Salon on Wednesday, March 17 at the home of Holly Lueders-Spizzirri. Kennedy spoke in the living room in front of the fire (couldn’t get any cozier) about Waterkeeper and other initiatives he’s taking to further the progress of renewable energy resources in the United States. It was history, it was politics, it was environmental activism at it’s finest. It was almost impossible not to be inspired. We are so lucky to have people like Alex Halperin, publisher of Aspen Peak magazine, to host amazing events like this!

Potatote proudly donated our canvas Aspen landmark series totes to the event as a gift bag for the guests to bring home all this amazing and valuable info. Each guest also received in their totes one of our exciting newly developed potato resin t-shirt grocery bags which decompose in 40 days when composted. (Unlike the oxo-biodegradable vegetable bags you are now using at some of the Valley grocery stores which claim to biodegrade, but in reality remain in small particles even more dangerous to ocean life than a whole plastic bag, evident in the Nort Atlantic/Pacific Garbage patches in the Gyres the size of Texas … but we digress).

Anyway, keep us in mind for your next event–we can do custom bags!

Thanks to everyone who made the Eco Salon a huge success and for allowing Potatote to be a part of it. It’s events like this that makes us feel like we are part of something so much larger than ourselves. With that thought, maybe we can make a difference.

Download the PDF recap for all the amazing photos!

Recap – Eco Salon

Love,
The Aspen Bag Ladies