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Going Green: Everything Old is New Again

April 15, 2008 on 1:25 pm | In Main Category | No Comments

While reading the how-to go green issue of one of our favorite design magazines recently, we noted the list of “150 easy ways to green your home.”  As it turns out, the list equates “easy” with “spend” and while we are staunch advocates of certain forms of retail therapy,  we found that a major oversight of the article was in not mentioning that original green buzzword, recycle. 

 

Nowadays, recycling usually means sorting the trash in the hope that our plastic bottle will be re-born as a fleece jacket. Let’s take a moment to imagine a time before blue plastic bins, when recyling meant wearing your older brother’s winter jacket because, as Mom pointed out, “it’s still a lovely jacket.” And at Out of the Closet and Community Thrift, you can see that perfectly lovely jacket recycled and see to it that a worthwhile charity benefits in the process.

 

And if you absolutely must make a green purchase – and sometimes, we simply must – how about purchasing a nifty, re-usable shopping tote? Now on SALE!