Made with Michigan Hands: Jeans Gone Green
/ Category: Jean NewsIt’s earth week and one Traverse City woman doing some eco-friendly good in the form of stylish sandals.
OLIVIA – A young female reported she was walking near the intersection of 10th Street and Elm Avenue at about 1:30 p.m. Monday when she was followed by a man in his 50s with a full head of grey hair, glasses, wearing a black sweatshirt and blue jeans. He was driving a dirty, older Chevrolet Malibu. The female said the man rolled down his window and demanded that she get in his car.
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Olivia Police seek information on man who demanded female get in his car
The Gap partners with the Cotton. Blue To Green campaign to recycle old jeans.
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Donate Your Old Jeans To Keep Others Warm (Tonic)
Super-chic and not just for the super-thin, the new silhouette is throwing jeans a new curve.
Continue here: Jeans alert: Wide-legged denim is in (KIVI Boise)
Erek Hansen, 8, has collected 1,055 pairs of jeans, more than twice as many as the Jerusalem Township boy hoped to gather for recycling into insulation for houses in areas damaged by natural disasters. The jeans Erek collected at his home and at a drive last month at Jerusalem Elementary were delivered yesterday to First Solar Inc. in Perrysburg Township. The firm heard about Ereks efforts to …
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Jerusalem Township boys jeans collection tops goal (The Toledo Blade)
Now here’s a cure for that teenage fashionista of yours who feels bitten by the recession. At Uptown Consignment in South Windsor — a renovated former CVS store which owner Barbara Capenera believes is the largest single consignment store in the country — that pinched fashion plate of yours can earn an instant $10 for her Seven jeans, or $30 for her Citizen’s Humanity or True Religions.
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Consignment stores offer big brands (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
By John Grooms On a cool, sunny late spring morning, 70 or so men and women stand in line at the Urban Ministry Center Uptown, waiting to receive a free meal from the Center’s 365-days-a-year soup kitchen. Some of the people in line present the careworn, used-clothes appearance that most of us associate with the homeless. Others, though, not so much. One man is wearing new jeans, a button-down …
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Meet the new face of hunger in Charlotte (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
EDMONTON – A new eco-friendly recycling facility which will turn waste paper, old cotton cloth and blue jeans into 100 per cent recycled paper was unveiled at City Hall Wednesday.
Continue here: New $10 million recycling facility for Edmonton (Global TV Edmonton)