ReJAVAnate - making a difference one bag at a time!
August 18th, 2008 aalvarez
ReJAVAnate takes burlap from coffee roasters that would be otherwise …
Bashas’ Family Stores Have a New Sustainability Brochure
August 18th, 2008 aalvarez
Since the 1970’s Bashas’ Family Stores have placed intitiatives to reduce their impact on the environment. Click on the link below to take you to the pdf of their new sustainability brochure. (Adobe Acrobat is needed to view the brochure.)
bashas-sustainability-brochure
Global Awareness Day – Aug. 16, 2008
August 14th, 2008 aalvarez
Join us on Saturday August 16th at the Arizona Science Center, 600 E. Washington St. Phoenix, AZ to learn how our actions affect the world around us. The day will be full of opportunities for people to educate themselves about the problems facing our planet, and what can be done to support a healthy planet. Valley Recycling …
Safeway Reusable Bag Event This Saturday
August 14th, 2008 aalvarez
The City of Phoenix will host a recycling information table this Saturday August 16th from 8 AM to 12 Noon at Safeway, 18631 N. 19th Ave, Phoenix.
Recycling information will be distributed along with a limited supply of FREE REUSABLE CLOTH BAGS. Don’t forget to bring in your extra plastic bags to Bag Central Station, “Where plastic bags …
Plastic Bags are 100-per-cent Recyclable
August 14th, 2008 aalvarezExcellent post from Leader-Post
Plastic bags and the environment
Published: Thursday, August 14, 2008
The Canadian Plastics Industry Association appreciates the opportunity to ensure that decisions made about plastic shopping bags are made based on fact and good science, not erroneous information.
The writer of a recent Minus 20 article (”Go green with cloth bags”, Leader-Post, Aug. 5), repeats a number of myths — stating, for example, that research shows that …
Reusable Bag Event in Tempe This Saturday
August 12th, 2008 aalvarez
A limited supply of FREE REUSABLE BAGS will be distributed by the City of Tempe at the following locations on Saturday August 16th from 10 AM to 12 PM;
Sunflower Market - 1706 E. Southern Ave
Wal-Mart - 1380 W. Elliot Rd
BYOB bring your own bag to SPROUTS and get 5 cents back
August 11th, 2008 aalvarez
Teaching Humans To Clean Up After Themselves
August 11th, 2008 aalvarezMaple So, a Yuma High School graduate, has one second place in the Morrison Institute essay-contest as reported in the Arizona Republic.
In her essay, titled “Use of Plastic bags creating nightmare for our environment” So explains the simple lesson of basically teaching humans to clean up after themselves. If everyone is just using up materials and forgetting to recycle, then it is the same principle as littering their own house and then seeing one …
Bank Gives 100,000 Reusable Bags
August 8th, 2008 aalvarezGate City Bank is giving out another 100,000 reuseable bags to the public free of charge as reported in IN-FORUM NEWS. The cloth reusable bags are avaliable at all the bank’s 26 branch locations in North Dakota.
Kool Bags Sold by a Kool Kid
August 6th, 2008 aalvarez
Way to go Amber! Amber Shriner a twelve year old entrepreneur created a reusable bag with three layers of insulation. For every “Kool Bag” sold Shriner will donate 10 percent of her profit to the 2009 Winter Special Olympics in Boise, Idaho.
For the full story click on the link below.