As regular followers know, everydaytrash.com went to Hopewell Valley Green Market this weekend, to represent and absorb new ideas. At the entrance to the Market, the following public information was posted. Very useful and very cute!
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So, what does this mean?
What it really means!
Hey there, new readers. Everydaytrash.com has had a bit of a growth spurt recently and it occurs to me some of you might be wondering what this site is all about. While we champion happy confusion, here are some bits of historical and autobiographical information for the unsatisfied among you.
xoxo
Leila
Decorative Dumpster Day is fast approaching, so let us know if you’d like to participate. The rules are simple: Post a photo of a decorated dumpster or other trash receptical and link back to the three host blogs: Olympia Dumpster Divers, The Visible Trash Society and everydaytrash.com. In return, we’ll be linking to ALL the participating sites to create a giant web of dumpster images.
To get the party started, Ltttle Shiva designed this trashtastic logo for the event, please feel free to use it. Text to accompany your images is entirely up to your own discretion/imagination. Can’t wait to see what you’ve got!
Ruby Re-Usable, Little Shiva and I are having an online party on May 1st to be hosted by our blogs Olympia Dumpster Divers, The Visible Trash Society and Everydaytrash.com as well as other neat locales in the garblogosphere. Stay tuned for a fuller list of participants. And in the meantime, if you’ve been decorating your dumpster/other trash-holding container or seen a neat one in the NYC area that deserves a day in the spotlight, let me know.
Remember how I wrote in February about the annual Pick Up the Trash Day? Well, now it’s April and kiddos all over Sweden are gearing up to run around and clean up their communities. So far over 145 000 young ones are signed up for this year.
New for 2009 is that all participating schools, municipalities etc. can post on a collective blog, so that we all can check in on what’s up. And get more pix like this one here:
Trash kids from Byrsjö School
Been quiet as I’m still kind of in transit from Stockholm to Brooklyn, but my broadband should come around soon. At the moment though I have an urgent need to tell you that the password for the free wifi where I now enjoy a cup of coffee is “pleaserecycle”. Love.
I’ll be at the Hopewell Valley Green Market at the Hopewell train station from 10-3 on April 18th. Come on by and introduce yourself.
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via Frehskills2030 on Flickr
P.S. Tumblr seems to have crossed some sort of tipping point lately from a platform for the naval-gazing of friends of the founder to a dynamic format to share bits of info that nimbly dart about the internets, nourishing our curiosity.
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Last barge to Freshkills, March 22nd 2001
This week around the garblogosphere:
Please excuse any typos or weirdness, I am posting this from a slow Internet connection in Quito, where the altitude has me a bit woozy.
Fused plastic tote by Nancy
I woke up to this incredibly sweet note in my inbox this morning: “Hi Leila–I went to see your presentation at the Princeton Library, and got inspired to 1) resume blogging, 2) make dozens of fused plastic totes. Thanks for the push into upcycling.”
Thank YOU Nancy. Garblogging is fun in and of itself, but it’s exciting to get proof beyond web stats that people out there are getting something out of everydaytrash. P.S., that CVS/Forever 21 mash up bag is rad. Keep us posted on the fusing madness.
Finally, zero waste biz cards. I’ve been having an ethical dilemma for over two years now about whether it’s hypocritical to print paper cards for a trash blog. Solution part a came via Cool Hunting today: sms contact cards. Soultion part b is homemade cards. Photos coming soon.
unconsumption is a side project in the form of a tumblr started by Rob Walker, author of the weekly Consumed column in the Times magazine. It is also a concept tackled in some depth on his blog, Murketing. I think you’ll enjoy these links.
Eco-Libris (the company you can pay a modest fee to plant a tree for every book you read) is trying to get a conversation going around the latest installment of Greenpeace’s Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide. Check out the debate on the Eco-Libris blog.
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