Last Days of Clunking Are Nigh…

Last Days of Clunking A...

Three more shopping days left until the declunking of America comes to a legal end. Cites the LATimes: “The Obama administration says all transactions under the popular program must be submitted before 5 p.m. PDT Monday. Buyers and dealers are advised to get paperwork done...
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Recycling ideas

Recycling ideas...

Everything old is new again, or so the story goes. Now is the time the winter of many homeowner’s discontent, but make a glorious summer of windfall income come Christmas with gifts made from recycled items and clear a profit that would make Dickens grin. Right now at this...
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Recycled Gems

Recycled Gems...

Ever think you could make recycled jewelry from recycled items like parts and used clothes? The key is to keep your eye out for raw materials buried in the rough. The gems of the recycled materials world are out there waiting for you to find them! Scouring thrift stores is part of...
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Junk Art

Junk Art...

A trip to a new blog made me envy people who had time to shop amongst the junk for art materials.  What does junk consist of? What does the word junk even mean to the new group of people now coming into adulthood? Junk used to mean scrap or distressed raw materials that could not...
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Back to School Recycling

Back to School Recyclin...

This is a hard year to teach kids the beauty of twice owned clothing.  High school is the training ground for forming impressions that will last a lifetime. The ego of the average teenager or college student may find that hard to do in used clothes. But with careful shopping the...
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Recycled Business Advice

Recycled Business Advic...

The recycled side of recycling has never been more wide open to new startups and business ventures than at present. Recycling junk is business, big business, but it can be as small as you want it to be. Considering how many talented people in every line of work and possessing every...
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BrandX reads

BrandX reads...

Some good green snippets have been in the news in and around the latest publication in the Southland. This BrandX seems like a poorly written giveaway but is really a savvy read on what’s happening in Los Angeles sustainable downtown and around the area in various venues and...
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Incorporating Green Business Motifs

Incorporating Green Bus...

One way to start at the grass roots level of using green materials and recycling junk into profitable sales products is to substitute materials in the supply chain for good obtainable from recycled sources. The mission to inform others about sustainability can be conducted while...
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Exxon Green Company of the Year?

Exxon Green Company of ...

Valdez-wise, I doubt I can ever get down with homies who believe ExxonMobil is the green company of any year. Ask the fishermen in Alaska whose lives turned to mud. The current issue of Forbes would have us believe otherwise, and being that Forbes promotes wealth ahead of sustainability,...
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Green Sitebuilding

Green Sitebuilding...

The earthneeds a green pathway One thing a person who cares about sustainability can do to help preserve the fragile balance of our ecosystem with evolving societal stress on the planet is to start a website about recycling and awareness concerning viability of current industrial...
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