Clothe your Soul

Image: Paul Wegenast, Co-founder Encounter Earth

As a sustainability consultant, I'm always on the lookout for sustainable businesses doing their part to build a better world.

You can imagine my delight when I walked in to Encounter Earth. A sustainable business embracing the environment and social well being. Located in Canmore, AB, Encounter Earth exists to improve global social justice and environmental sustainability through market-based societal change. Specifically, the retail industry.

For all of us living a sustainable lifestyle, Encounter Earth offers the opportunity to purchase fashionable, attractive clothes while using purchasing dollars to empower third world families to lift themselves out of poverty. Hence, "clothe your soul". Beautiful, isn't it?

As Co-founder Paul Wegenast stated, “Environmental responsibility and social justice go hand-in-hand. Ensuring safe and dignified working conditions, eliminating toxins and pollutants, and paying a fair price for a day’s work are all part of a new paradigm in business that we are proud to be a part of."

If you are looking for a dose of inspiring eco awareness, look no further. Encounter Earth shares the stories behind the products, the names and lives of the artisans, and how your purchase changes their world.

As a sustainable business, Encounter Earth is committed to transparency, quality, beauty and sustainability in everything they do. Top brands include: Indigenous, Good Society, and Patagonia.

If you are visiting the Town of Canmore, I encourage you to stop by. On the internet, visit Encounter Earth at www.encounterearth.com. You will fall in love with them just as I did!