‘GREEN’ EYEWEAR

Monday, December 27th, 2010

ECO (Earth Conscious Optics) has created a line of eyewear using high quality recycled metal and plastics. They have a program that plants a tree in Africa or Southeast Asia for every pair of frames sold. They also have a program that recycles glasses that people no longer use, and distributes these to people in need of eyewear in Africa and Southeast Asia in conjunction with One Sight.

One Sight is an organization that sends Ophthalmologists to Africa and Southeast Asia to perform eye exams on people that might not otherwise have the opportunity to have their eyes examined. 

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Energy Facts #1

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

If every household in the U.S. replaced just one roll of 1,000 sheet virgin fiber bathroom tissues with 100% recycled ones, we could save: 373,000 trees, 1.48 million cubic feet of landfill space, and 155 million gallons of water