Love Texts: Poem: If by Rudyard Kipling
IF
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t…
Dr. Dan Knapp, 71, is one man who’s reaping the riches of the Zero Waste philosophy. He founded Urban Ore, a waste recovery business in Berkeley, California in 1980 with his wife Mary Lou Van Deventer. Last year the company did $2.7 million in sales.
Turning trash into cash was a natural evolution for Knapp. On a whim, as a college instructor in Springfield, Illinois in the early 1970’s, he purchased an old six-wheeled farm truck and helped students collect salvageable material lying about town.
“We were picking up anything,” says Knapp. “We went to a dump and I was appalled by what I saw.”
Then, Knapp recalls, he realized “There’s a business opportunity here.”
More: From Trash to Cash: Small Business Turns Profit with Waste Recovery – ecomagination
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Photograph by Tim Walker for Vogue December 2011
In northern Mongolia, reindeer territory, 13-year-old Puje fearlessly explores the wild landscape.
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YOU MIGHT GET STUCK ON ME | SUMMER CAMP
Let us all take a trip to a land of pastel colors! Summer Camp released their debut LP ‘Welcome To Condale’ a few days ago, now they’re back at it as they create a new track/video entitled ‘You Might Get Stuck On Me’ in collaboration with 17 Cosmetics. Check it out above!
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