Posts Tagged recycled

San Francisco Green Festival Features Richochet Vintage – Wearable Art Made from Recycled Materials

SAN FRANCISCO – October 18, 2012 Ricochet has been buzzing with excitement and we are thrilled to finally share the good news! Jill is to be a featured designer in the upcoming 2012 Green Festival.

Along with a significant focus on creative expression, Ricochet shares its core values of sustainability, community, and eco-friendly awareness with the Green Festival and is proud to be part of this special event. Jill will have 2 booths set up at the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center November 10-11th. Visitors will get the chance to shop Jill’s one of a kind pieces and get a personalized fitting to ensure guests walk away satisfied with unique garments that fit perfectly! Jill will be opening her doors to the Bay Area community and offering sign-ups for her sewing classes that run year round. She will also continue to offer support for youth and young
professionals and will be available to conduct on site interviews for Ricochet’s Wearable Art Academy Internship Program.

Jill will be locatedat booths 265 and 266 at the Concourse Exhibition Center which is located at 635 8th St (on the corner of 8th and Brannan). Be sure to mark your calendars and visit Ricochet for a truly one of a kind experience.

 

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About Ricochet

Originally established as a women’s and children’s consignment shop in 1996, Ricochet was founded by European designer
Jill Pillot who breathes new life into 2nd-hand materials through the process of “up-cycling,” turning them into unique,
wearable works of art. Her chic looks for women and cute, comfortable clothes for kids have won many awards and, more
importantly, make people smile and satisfy the community she serves. In 2010, Jill won the 1st Prize for Evening Wear
awarded by the St Vincent De Paul’s Discarded to Devine as well as 1st Prize for Best Art-Inspired Awarded by the De
Young Museum, at the De Young Museum . Pieces were auctioned off at the St Mary’s Cathedral benefiting the St .Vincent
de Paul Society’s services to people battling poverty, homelessness and domestic violence. Jill was also a featured designer
during Bay Area Fashion Week 2012 and represents Ricochet as a small business committed to promoting creativity along
with a socially responsible and green way of life.

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Jewelry Trade-In Program: Recycle Your Diamonds and Old Metal into New Jewelry at LA Green Festival

LA Green Festival Exhibitor Jewelry by Liza Shtromberg Provides Exquisitely Innovative Eco-Jewelry to the Green Consumer

LOS ANGELES – September 6, 2012 As an innovative source of original, handcrafted jewelry for the environmentally conscious consumer, Jewelry by Liza Shtromberg is a premier jewelry company which sets itself apart from the jewelry industry through its environmentally responsible practices. By applying a sustainable process, Jewelry by Liza Shtromberg offers a variety of ways to make mindful jewelry selections through an exclusive use of post-consumer recycled metals, non-conflict diamonds and responsibly sourced gemstones.

Bring your unwanted gold and platinum jewelry to LA Green Festival and trade it in at the Jewelry by Liza Shtromberg booth for store credit! At the event, Jewelry by Liza Shtromberg will be weighing and testing your gold jewelry to provide you with an offer for store credit which can be used at the event or at the store location in Los Feliz. You can also reset your diamonds into post-consumer recycled metal settings, an environmentally conscious alternative to mining for new diamonds.

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Baby Clothing Drive at the Chicago Green Festival this weekend to benefit New Moms, Inc.

Good Karma Clothing for Kids will be accepting donations of gently used baby clothing at its booth inside the Green Kids’ Zone at the Chicago Green Festival at Navy Pier, Saturday and Sunday, May 5th and 6th. All donations will benefit New Moms, Inc.

Good Karma Clothing for Kids will be accepting donations of baby clothes at Chicago Green Festival

Chicago, IL – April 30, 2012 Do you have a closet full of baby clothes that your little one has outgrown? Usable clothing belongs in circulation, and Good Karma Clothing for Kids would like to send your clothes to another family that needs them. So bring us a few pieces or bring a whole bag—we will make sure they find a good home.

Good Karma is a new subscription service that provides busy parents with hand-picked baby clothes that they exchange as baby grows. We source our inventory from parents like you who no longer need the clothing they own, and want to get it back into circulation. We only accept like-new items—nothing that is stained, ripped, has holes or is overly worn out.

As we normally pay for clothing we acquire, we’re paying New Moms, Inc. for every piece that we can accept into our inventory. The nicer the outfit, the more we pay—so help us reach out goal of $1,500 for New Moms, Inc. Anything that is in less-than-perfect condition will be donated to a charity for recycling or “upcycled” into other products, like baby bibs, quilts and hats.

It’s a win-win situation for parents who want to clean out their own closets and help other parents be green and save green. So stop by our booth in the Green Kids’ Zone to drop off your donations and learn more about our service. Even if your kids have outgrown our service, we offer gift certificates—they make a great green baby shower gift!

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About New Moms, Inc. New Moms equips struggling, impoverished adolescent parents and their children with the personal and career-readiness tools to change their life stories from chronic dependence on society to economic independence and family stability. Learn more at www.newmomsinc.org

About Good Karma Clothing for Kids. Good Karma Clothing for Kids is a new subscription service that provides busy parents with hand-picked baby clothes that you exchange as baby grows. Bundles containing 7 outfits at a time start at just $27.99. Send the outfits back when the season changes or baby hits a growth spurt and we’ll send 7 new ones. We reuse anything still in great shape and “upcycle” anything else into baby bibs, baby quilts and other products. Learn more and subscribe today at www.goodkarma.co

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HandCrafting Justice to Feature Recycled Phonebook Handbag at NYC Green Festival

Handcrafting Justice to feature recycled phonebook handbags at NYC Green Festival

April 11, 2012 - In recognition of the Earth Day celebration at this year’s New York City Green Festival, HandCrafting Justice will be displaying their one-of-a-kind recycled phonebook handbags crafted by Filipino women artisans from the Alay Kapwa community in Manila.

These bags transform old telephone directories into a practical, everyday accessory. Through innovative thinking, using resources that are normally tossed aside, these women artisans have embraced the idea of thinking outside of the recycled box.

The Alay Kapwa community is an organized co-operative that adheres to fair trade principles. For example, the women determine how much raw materials cost and how much money is needed to feed their family and send their children to school. Based on these expenses, the women determine a reasonable price for their bags that will provide their family with a sustainable income.

Be sure to visit the HCJ booth at #313, or go to our website, for a more comprehensive display of our wide variety of handcrafted products that honor the Earth through recycled and sustainable practices.

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About Handcrafting Justice

Founded in 1997, HandCrafting Justice provides access to Fair Trade markets for unique, handmade goods created by enterprising women in the developing world working to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. By fostering self-reliance, ensuring fair wages, and building support networks, the organization offers far more than Fair Trade: HandCrafting Justice promotes human dignity by empowering women to overcome social and economic injustice.

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Rethinking Green Products by Re-Imagining Your Inputs

“One of the most exciting developments in the auto industry today has to do with the sustainable innovations that make cars run — improved petrol and diesel engines, ethanol and biodiesel, compressed natural gas, electricity, or some combination thereof.

It’s a topic that will only become more pronounced as car engines are built to do more with even less, especially with President Obama’s recent announcement to green the industry as a whole through aggressive fuel efficiency standards.

This is also a concept that can serve as lessons for those outside of the auto industry. In other words, what can companies do to make their operations more sustainable beyond the end product? Well, a good start would be to look at what is going into those outputs. This trend of replacing traditional materials with sustainable alternatives is something that’s emerging across almost all industries, and like car makers, those companies that aren’t participating in it are setting themselves up to fall behind.”

Rethinking Green Products by Re-Imagining Your Inputs

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Not Every Green Product Can Be a World-Changer

“I have spent several decades in the packaging industry and almost five years specifically in the green packaging market. During that time, I have come to appreciate both innovations that may have limited appeal but solve a specific or unique problem, as well as products that may not be as newsworthy but provide a solution to a much wider group of customers.

What Is a Broad-Based Solution?

In my mind, a broad-based solution is a product that would have mass appeal and solve a common or very typical packaging problem. For example, when we and others began promoting 100 percent recycled content corrugated for shipping boxes, the concept did not win awards or grace the cover of packaging magazines, even though it could potentially benefit every single shipping box buyer and user.”

Not Every Green Product Can Be a World-Changer via Dennis Salazar – GreenBiz

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California city to get green prefab housing

“Zeta Communities broke ground yesterday on a net-zero housing development in Stockton, Calif., the company announced.

The housing community, which will consist of 22 units, is being developed by the nonprofit group Visionary Home Builders of California.”

California city to get green prefab housing via Candace LombardiCNET News

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Dedicated recycler bones up on green techniques to pull off ambitious renovation

Ben Bradley didn’t play with regular toys growing up.

He would just take them apart and put them back together.

“My parents finally realized they should not buy me typical toys, and started getting me radio kits and stuff like that,” said the Arkansas native.

After he bought his first house in 2007, his old habits kicked in, and he began to take it apart.

Now that he has stripped it down to the bare bones, Bradley plans to put it back together keeping one goal in mind: to be as green as possible.

“I’m going to do what I can to the best of my ability. As a homeowner, unless you have a lot of money, it’s hard,” he said.

Not wanting to attempt such a major endeavor blindly, the local courier has done his research.

The same year he bought his house, he traveled to Global Exchange’s and Co-Op America’s Green Festival in Chicago to soak up some information.

“I was completely mentally exhausted. I was there until they pushed me out of the building,” said Bradley, 39. “It was really liberating. All of a sudden I had more information than I even knew what to do with. It was like being drunk on information. It was like all of a sudden, this was possible.”

Dedicated recycler bones up on green techniques to pull off ambitious renovation via Lesley Young – The Commercial Appeal

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Interview with Exotic Green Home Furniture

Interview with Jamie Michaels, owner of Exotic Green Home Furniture, at the San Francisco Green Festival, November 2010 – via Vania Benavides – Vab Media

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