Video: Going green is going places

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SEATTLE - Hundreds of vendors are setting up booths in Seattle this weekend – naturally. They are part of the first Seattle Green Festival taking place this weekend.

It's the front edge of the green wave sweeping across this country and it's not just hippies making candles anymore.

The organic and natural products exhibited are filling the shelves of the nation's mainstream stores.

Local business people, such as Eli Reich, are riding this wave further than they ever thought possible.

We introduced you to him two years ago when he was just getting his recycled bag business going.

"At that time there were just two of us working out of the basement of a house I lived in," he said.

They were collecting old inner-tubes, banners and seatbelts and sewing them into hip weather resistant bags.

Just like the green festivals that have gone from some dusty old fairgrounds to venues like Seattle's Convention Center, look where Eli's business has gone - from that cramped basement with two employees to a spacious space in Sodo.

Going green is going places, right into the products the world demands.