This was from the New York Times a few days ago discussing the ways companies are actively seeking your garbage and turn that into something reusable for the business in other way. Taking what's old and make it new again. Companies Pick Up Used Packaging, and Recycling’s Cost Allen Brisson-Smith for The New York Times By STEPHANIE STROM Published: March 23, 2012 You might be doing both, as a result of a new trend in recycling, courtesy of the manufacturers who make the original products. So far, however, no new products have been added. MORE >>

“We’ve received a flood of requests, all over the country, to open up new cities. DiggersList’s waste-reducing re-use, and cost-cutting discounts have resonated with homeowners from California to New York, and Chicago to Louisiana. Green Goddess Musing about Sustainable Issues in a planet hell bent on being anything but. Both a skeptic and an optimist trying to reconcile what it means to live in our current climate - and that means more than the weather. womans worth in a mans field is all part of a days work. Greenwash/ Bullshit Free Zone. MORE >>

Chang-Tai Hsieh of the University of Chicago finds that American property brokers cause “social waste” of $8 billion a year via overcharging and inefficiency. But Colby Sambrotto, the founder of ForSaleByOwner.com and USRealty.com, a discount broker, says that after trying to sell his own home in New York by himself, he was forced to hire an agent to get it shown to potential buyers. assume that they are thought of us as only "victims" too as their business and livelihood suffered as a result. Imagine bidding on homes as one does in an Art Auction. They are salesmen. MORE >>

This morning this article was on the front page of the New York Times regarding the surplus of skilled crafstman seeking work via Craigslist. You can follow the pulse of the economy just by watching what’s going on with Craigslist,” said Jerry Patterson, a carpenter in Phoenix who once had plentiful work framing new homes and remodeling older ones. After rising early in the year, new-home sales fell in March, and government spending on infrastructure projects remains low. For security purposes I no longer use Craigslist unless it is for a minor transaction. MORE >>

And I read yesterday about a significant project in New York slated for destruction - The Orange County Government Center in Goshen, NY. The conflict has come in recent months to this quaint village 60 miles north of New York City — with its historic harness-racing track, picturesque Main Street and Greek Revival, Federal and Victorian houses — where the blocky concrete county government center designed by the celebrated Modernist architect Paul Rudolph has always been something of a misfit. have reprinted the article below for your perusal. Edward A. MORE >>