Or perhaps dirty hippie. I don’t know, but what I do know is that For Days, a new t-shirt company positively ticks off all of my boxes. They say: With a unique closed loop system, For Days is deeply committed to manufacturing innovation and waste reduction. We empower our members to free themselves from the…
Early alert! Balcones Recycling is throwing a crazy-cool only-in-Austin graffiti art contest on March 6. It’s at their recycling facility on east 6th and a dozen artists will each get half of a railcar to create a mural with an environmental theme–created with choices from 250 colors of donated spray paint. The cash-money winner will…
International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) is the largest and most comprehensive education initiative of the compost industry. It is celebrated each year in the first full week of May. I thought composting was silly when my brother first suggested it, but he ignored my teasing and built us a compost just under the window that’s…
I was just having this conversation with a friend yesterday: Him: “What’s up with phone books? They’re stupid, they go straight from my doorstep to my recycling bin. I wish they’d stop sending them to me.” Me: “I used mine to hold up my bed frame for awhile … but I agree. No one uses…