Yellow Leaf Hammocks is creating a growing class of female breadwinners in the developing world to enact far-reaching change.
Do Good. Relax. Yellow Leaf’s motto is reminiscent of Cotopaxi’s “Gear for good,” and it’s part of a growing list of benefit corporations (B-Corps) serving socially and environmentally conscious consumers.
And though the “good” Yellow Leaf wants to effect is broad in scope, its efforts are highly focused. The brand employs women and mothers in northern Thailand to create 100-percent hand-woven hammocks. As a result, women become breadwinners for their families, more children are free to attend schools, and the local workforce shifts from environmentally harmful slash-and-burn agriculture to higher-paying weaving jobs.