No Wonder Toilet Paper Was Invented!
We take toilet paper for granted, don't we? Kind of like clean air and rain water. But toilet paper, as we know it today has only been available for less than 200 years. The ancient Greeks used stones and clay for their, ahem, toilet needs. The Romans got inventive...
It’s the Little Things
How making a few small changes can have a BIG impact on the world. In a consumer driven world, our purchases say a lot about us and our priorities. Over one quarter of the average American’s carbon emission comes from stuff we buy. These are some of my favorite...
Healthy Home-Healthy Earth-Healthy Life.
We're launching a new blog series here at Nimbus Eco this week in honor of Earth Day this Sunday. Our Healthy Home-Earth-Life blog will be written by different members of our team each month and explore all the earth friendly habits, tools and ideas that ultimately...
Target adds Nimbus Eco products
In keeping with key retail trends, Target has decided to launch Nimbus Eco's sustainable, bamboo based products into select Los Angeles stores. Target, one of the premiere retail destinations in the United States, has chosen to lead the pack and offer the Stratus...
Five Habits That Vote Yes! For the Environment
This month we saw the end of a long and contentious campaign in America. The people elected a new President on the national level and each of the 50 states ushered new leaders into various local and state offices. Voters expressed their preferences on matters that...
Rapidly Renewable Raw Materials are Changing the Paper Industry
“Some things never change,” I’ve heard more than five or ten times in my life, generally from level headed and practical minds that see consistency like they watch the sun rise. Although that may be true, I’ve always been struck with a sense of why? when I hear that...
Stratus 12 Pack now on Jet.com
We are now live on Jet.com! We are proud to announce our new partnership with Jet.com, featuring our newest product, the Stratus 12-Pack of toilet paper. This blended bamboo hybrid is soft and strong and helps to reduce your impact on the environment through our use...
Getting to Know Bamboo, Mother Earth’s Friend
In our continuous search to develop and manufacture the best eco-friendly tissue on Earth, we head to the source of our key raw material, China. Our founders spent a few weeks in July overseeing production and doing research and development on several new products...
Deforestation in Brazil
Take a look at this informative and interactive guide to deforestation in Brazil, its causes, and what can be done to stop the trend. Did you know that the US imports over $275 million of tropical hardwoods every year?? View the guide here - > The Rainforest Was...
Tree-free toilet paper gets alumnus rolling with eco-friendly business
For Chapman University's Earth week outreach, Dawn Bonker, interviewed CEO Mark Samuels on his experience building Nimbus Eco and his insights on the future of the tissue business. Click here, to view the article in its entirety.
Modern Deforestation Trends: The Good and Bad
Tackling deforestation was the catalyst for creating Nimbus Eco, a simple idea that by sourcing our paper from bamboo and other non-tree sources, we could begin to make a real dent in this epidemic and create a better world. Our reach is still small compared to...
Nimbus Eco to Plant Trees for Every Purchase
We are excited to announce our new charity partner for 2014, Trees for the Future, a non-profit dedicated to planting trees that not only provide valuable carbon sequestration, they also provide fruit for the people that plant them. This sustainable food source...