Quikrete

Quikrete...

recycle tiles as garden decoration Feeling cemented in your present life? Pulverized? Torn up? Ashy? Overly slagged? But the production of Quikrete allows for some innovation and renewability in the paving of new roads and other surfaces recycling old torn up pavements. With more...
Kids Konserve

Kids Konserve...

Bag the Baggie!  Choose to Re-use! Such are the slogans of http://www.kidskonserve.com/, a new green enterprise which could (and should) spur copycats. Madames Claxton and Julian surely deserve their Girl Scout green entreprenur patch. This month’s Entrepreneur magazine has...
Recycling Economics

Recycling Economics...

  The materials needed for recycled projects need to be as reclaimed as possible. But the best kind of recycling is when source materials to begin with are brought from secondary and re-use sources instead of newly manufactured retail sources. More recycling needs to be happening...
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...
Green Underbelly

Green Underbelly...

  The layers of industrialized manufacture, transportation of finished product and shipment, delivery of raw materials, and by-products of the manufacturing process lie behind every smoothly wrapped, brightly printed piece of merchandise. That is the model that made America famous.   If...
This Old Recycler

This Old Recycler...

This Old Garden This month’s issue of This Old House has some dynamite ideas for customizing kitchen spaces for less money. But adding in the integrated idea of re-using sustainable materials culled from garage sales, estate sales, curbline cruising and thrift shop junkets,...