raghousenternational

Hey! Great article. This is very informative. I working on ways of making my life and business more eco-friendly. Thanks for the tag tips!

tanisalexis

Sustainable!
and Biodegradable!
:)
I notice a huge use of 'sustainable' not just on etsy but on places like flickr too. and biodegradable because it's such a nice word. lol.

good to know I should keep the dash out of eco friendly too. thanks!!

NestaHome

Sustainable for sure!

blondechicken

I use "sustainable" to refer to wool grown by small farms, using sustainable farming practices (not always certified organic). I'd also love to see a "farm" tag or "farm raised", "farm fresh" or SOMEthing to help me find farmers that are selling their own wool!

melissakate

Dear Abby,
I've been trying to figure out how to tag my cards b/c the paper is made using hydro-electricity and the envelopes are 100% recycled. But since the card - which is the thing I'm really selling - isn't recycled I didn't want to use 'recycled' as one of my tags b/c I thought it might be misleading... Do people actually use the search term 'eco friendly'?
Bemuddled in Brooklyn

lilfishstudios

Hooray for recycled, upcycled, eco friendly and so on! I use many of those tags so it's nice to see their proper use being outlined so I can be sure I'm using them correctly.

quirkybags

I wonder if people are searching eco friendly or ecofriendly? There are about 3000 items tagged with the space and over 1000 without. Hmmmm.

eclipse

I find that "organic" is a hard tag to search for because it has another meaning, related to design aesthetic. Designs and shapes inspired by nature, as opposed to hard geometric lines. Many metalworkers use the tag organic for example, but I think it's not mis-tagging, it's legitimate use because the word has more than one meaning. (similar to "green")

The other day I was at Michaels (yeah, I know) and they have a cheap mass-produced line of beads & jewelry components called the "Organic collection". I overheard a customer ask the clerk what that means and the clerk said it meant they were made without chemicals and pesticides! I started laughing because it's mostly metal components, it doesn't grow on trees so why would it need pesticides? The word "organic" in that case just referred to the style which is trendy right now, of "natural" looking jewelry.

cloud9designstudio

Thanks for the clarification. I was just using ecofriendly. I think it would be nice if there was a button we could click that would make the item show up as, green, organic, eco-friendly, etc. like a category, outside of the tags...I think thi is a HUGE part of handmade, and it'd be great to make it easier for buyers to find these items! Perhaps a search within a search like recycled under clothing, etc...

CourtneyWatson

Thank you SO much for the tagging help. I always worry I am missing out on sales due to incorrect eco-friendly tagging~

FrucciDesign

thanx!

TaDahpdx

Thank You!

sweetteadesigns

Very informative. I'm always inspired to see how creative people can be in recycling.

Thanks

Jewelweeds

thanks for doing this, such a big help! I also use term 'reclaimed'. It's like 'upcycled', but it can also refer to factory seconds and the like that are 'pre-consumer', but would ordinarily be thrown away if not 'rescued'.

Ottoman

I like the sustainable idea. Also, how about renewable resource? That's what I've been using for my Cork Collection.

SecretLentil

thanks for the article.

i use recycled, deconstructed, reconstructed, trashion and eco friendly for my clothes. does anyone search for these? ha! i have no idea. i just do it anyway.

10oneworld

My shop falls in this catagory, as well! Thanks for shedding some light on us! Great article!

bondagetea

Many times, I can't think of the exact word or term I want to search for, and so use something close and check the tags of the items that come up. Even if you don't have room for all the environmental tags you can think of, I'm sure I'm not the only one who starts off at "recycled" and ends at "hobo" because of shiny shiny distractions.

AishaWood

Great article! 'Reusable' is another good tag for totes, handkerchiefs and anything else which replaces single-use items.

recupefashion

What a great way to tag my items, I'm off to make corrections to my item taggin

RachelLovesPeace

great tips! im glad so many etsyers love to use earth friendly things.

babook

NICE NICE suggest to using it to item ! i got it know : )
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=...

dsenyo

Thank you for this one. My bags are eco friendly, vegan and organic and while I've included this information in the descriptions I haven't added these tag. Will do from now on!

Morningbird

Thanks for this - one question, though, why isn't a cotton shirt Vegan?

What am I missing?

KabiDesigns

Thanks... Great article ^_^