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...
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Stop the Curbing!

Stop the Curbing!...

The Curbing of America has got to stop. This tendency we have to roll the dice with leaving stuff by the curb, one wonders were it is all going. I like Freecycle better, and just have to assume when I see a site like the one above, the (former) owners have no literacy skills or would...
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Fabric Arts Recycle Site Blueprint

Fabric Arts Recycle Sit...

  I found a good example of a recycle site blueprint by accident and stopped to check it out. I see that evidently someone has been taking the “get green” messages to heart. The Ebay listings are mirrored on the website. This is a very good model for a green materials...
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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...
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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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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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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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Recycling Junk as a Business

Recycling Junk as a Bus...

Plasma TV Recycling Junk is business. Big business. But at the micro level it can be as much business as an individual entrepreneur can bring. With the emphasis on re-using existing resources, the Western world is full of things that can be repainted, refinished and repapered into...
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Sustainable Action Items

Sustainable Action Item...

Here are some sustainable living action items for you to do today: 1. Get the Freecycle bulletin out of your spam folder. If you didn’t sign up for it, sign up for it. Find one thing in the house and list it. Talk to neighbors and find one who doesn’t know about it. Evangelize...
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