The heart of Off The Bottle beats with a deep love and respect for Mother Nature.
We opened Off the Bottle in 2020 with a simple mission: reduce dependency on single use plastic in the home and body.
Over the past four and half years in business our primary mission remains and we have added other core pillars to our vision.
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Support makers of ethical products.
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Give our guests purchasing agency in the products they bring into their homes.
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Provide a job that aligns with our employee’s values.
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Create a physical space where people can connect face to face.
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Educate ourselves, and other’s about the products we procure.
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Practice a regenerative vs. extractive economic model.
Over the next few months we will be exploring each of these pillars and how Off The Bottle practices them.
Support independent makers of ethical products
There is the spirit of a dreamer floating in every product we sell at Off The Bottle. Each item on our shelves is the result of a person dreaming of a better world.
The dreamer floating in every roll of Unpaper towels is Sarah Dooley, founder of Marley’s Monsters. Marley’s Monsters is a woman-owned sustainable company based in Eugene, Oregon. Inspired by a journey in eco-concious living the business was founded in 2013. What started as a small dream grew into a full-time business in 2014. Today, the company employs over 70 people and produces high-quality handmade goods in-house.
At Off The Bottle we support and sell dreams.
Clouds in every paper by Thich Nhat Hanh
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow: and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.
"Interbeing" is a word that is not in the dictionary yet, but if we combine the prefix "inter" with the verb "to be", we have a new verb, inter-be. Without a cloud, we cannot have paper, so we can say that the cloud and the sheet of paper inter-are.
If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow. In fact nothing can grow. Even we cannot grow without sunshine. And so, we know that the sunshine is also in this sheet of paper. The paper and the sunshine inter-are. And if we continue to look we can see the logger who cut the tree and brought it to the mill to be transformed into paper. And we see the wheat. We know that the logger cannot exist without his daily bread, and therefore the wheat that became his bread is also in this sheet of paper. And the logger's father and mother are in it too. When we look in this way we see that without all of these things, this sheet of paper cannot exist.
Happy Earth Day from Off the Bottle!