While the trend at more and more universities has been to donate usable goods instead of dumpstering, we still send tons of our castoffs to the landfill each year. Clothing and textiles alone account for more than 6% of waste in our country’s landfills. Goodwill Industries is looking to change that with a new campaign highlighting the positive impact of donating to their stores

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Goodwill’s New Donate Movement Helps People and Planet

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Company offers unique solution for shoes that can be repaired rather than replaced Once upon a time, when people wore out the soles of their shoes they would take them to the local cobbler to have them resoled. However, times have changed.

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Resole America: Cobbling 2.0

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If I was in London this weekend, COPArt is where I’d like to be. COPArt Live! Bank Holiday Monday (3 May, 10.30am) Londoners interested in the environment and looking for some bank holiday fun are invited to attend a free event that will mix art and music at the Village Underground in Shoreditch on Monday 3rd May from 10:30am to 9:00pm.

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COPArt Live!

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“But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction – purpose and dignity – that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product – if we judge the United States of America by that – that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage.

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Inspirational Kennedy Quote

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