We believe an object can elevate both beholder and maker. In a world of mass-produced goods, we offer artisan-made home and apparel crafted in fair-trade environments from around the globe. We strive to live fully, slow down to enjoy life’s little luxuries, and choose everyday to create a world connecting maker, owner and earth.
July 22nd, 2020
Published by Tessa, Marketing Manager, Pokoloko
At Pokoloko, we're proud to offer you sustainable choices for your apparel and home goods.
In today's world, it's our duty to be more aware than ever of our ecological footprint. That’s why we have started a new project with Ecologi, where we plant trees to offset CO2 emissions.
Having ethical environmental practices is imperative and it remains a priority in everything we do here at Pokoloko. As we continue to grow, ensuring our values remain rooted in the natural world and everything it has to offer is essential.
The Eden Reforestation Project in Madagascar, focuses on planting Mangrove trees. More than 90% of Madagascar’s original forests have been destroyed, displacing entire animal species and taking away the local's ability to farm and live on the land.
By planting Mangrove trees, they can capture up to 4x as much carbon per acre than tropical rainforests. Three quarters of tropical fish rely on their root systems for nurseries and shelter. We can help to offset CO2 emissions by investing in this project.
The Peruvian Protection of the Amazon Project:
By protecting 98 hectares of the Amazonian rainforest, this prevents over 660K tonnes of CO2emissions from entering the atmosphere each year, which in turn helps offset CO2 emissions.
Ensuring long-term conservation and sustainable management of the forest, promotes healthy wildlife habitat, and prevents future compromise of the forest carbon stocks.
The Istanbul landfill gas extraction project in Turkey, produces 65MW of electricity, enough to provide clean and affordable power for 1.2 million homes.
This project captures and converts waste gas, methane, from sanitary landfill sites. Methane is around 32X as potent as a greenhouse gas as CO2.
The gas is used to power turbines that feed electricity into Turkey’s grid. The funding of this project directly prevents the equivalent of 1,500K tonnes of CO2emissions from entering the atmosphere every year.
Forest plantation on degraded grassland in Uruguay, turns over 21K hectares of land that has been used for cattle grazing for over 300 years, into sustainably-managed forestry.
Overseen and validated by the Rainforest Alliance, the project’s initial 60 year lifespan will remove over 700K tonnes of CO2emissions.
Aside from carbon removal, the project will result in a significant contribution to sustainable development of Uruguay, mainly through increased quality employment, rural development, and biodiversity and soil preservation.
Delivering Clean Drinking Water to Haiti
Every time you buy from Pokoloko, we will plant trees in the Pokoloko forest to offset CO2 emissionsaccumulated in the process of sourcing material, creating our goods and shipping them to you.
With every order, we will be planting trees in the Pokoloko Forest from now on.
We are now acarbon neutral workplace. This means we offset the carbon footprint of every employee’s lives, as well as offsetting any business travel. This means we offset their entire carbon footprint, including emissions from their home, personal travel, holidays, food, hobbies and more. We are on our way to being 100% climate positive.
