Green Team Talks
Thoughts on a greener marketplace, and what it means to be green.
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Last week, we flexed our reusable packaging muscles with the launch of the eBay Box. This week, our friends at RecycleBank give us a closer look at the wider world of reusable packaging. From eco-friendly shopping bags to food containers to water bottles, read on to discover smart ways to keep your container waste under control.
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Brooklyn-based style icon and card carrying Green Team member Sheena Matheiken joins us for another 365 days of inspiring fashion. In an exclusive interview series, Sheena interviews the new faces of the Uniform Project - her "pilot series" - a group of undercover (and some not-so-undercover) trendsetters who are taking recycled fashion to a whole new level. And, now, we bring you twelve months, twelve faces, twelve causes - and 365 (more) days of creative street style, all peppered with some of the most unique and lust-worthy vintage pieces that eBay fashion has to offer. Prepare to be inspired.
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Back to School: Zem Joaquin on The Most Important Lesson to Share with Your Kids
- Aug 25, 2010
- Buy Green
- Zem Joaquin
The end of summer is always bittersweet. It’s tough to say goodbye to family road trips, warm August nights and lazy mornings. Still, there’s something magical about the commencement of a new school year. eBay Eco Expert Zem Joaquin talks us through her favorite picks as you head back to the classroom: read on and get inspired!
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One of last week's most popular posts over at The Inside Source was a product round-up that was chock full of recommendations for greening your dorm room. As the dog days of summer linger on and the migration back to college campuses begins, read on for some of the best ways to make sure your transition back to school is planet-friendly!
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What do you do with that bestseller once you've turned the last page? Get rid of your books an eco-friendly way.
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In a very exciting first-time collaboration between the eBay Green Team and Planet Green, we've pulled together an uber-exciting charity auction that takes the best of PG's new TV line-up - their hilarious show The Fabulous Beekman Boys - and puts it to work for a terrific cause: The New Farmer Development Project & Sylvia Center. Read on for details on the auction and the Inside Source's exclusive interview with Beekman Boy Brent Ridge.
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What's on Tap? Ditching Disposable Bottled Water for Reusable Alternatives
- Aug 2, 2010
- Buy Green
- eBay Green Team
As a society, we go through endless amounts of disposable water bottles. Several new initiatives, though, are trying to change that trend by offering reusable alternatives for people on the go.
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The Inside Source today featured another great green designer that we got pretty excited about: Chad Hilton from Crate Denim. Since 2006, he has been hand-producing each of his pieces out of leftover fabric no longer produced by mills - or what he calls "dead stock denim." He gave our friends at the Inside Source a sneak peek inside his uber-cool business and showed us some amazing hidden treasures he dug up on eBay.
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Shopping With… Dwell Publisher Michela O’Connor Abrams
- Jun 23, 2010
- Buy Green
- Partner News
- The Inside Source
On the eve of the third annual Dwell on Design conference in Los Angeles (June 25-27), Dwell's publisher Michela O'Connor Abrams chatted with The Inside Source about how she styles her own Mill Valley, CA, home and which eBay items she'd love to own.
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This week, a seller based in New Jersey sold a 27-foot old Navy vessel to a Florida company looking to help in the oil spill cleanup up efforts, which has ravaged the U.S. Gulf Coast since late April.
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As wedding season hits full swing, Grist's advice maven offers tips on eco-friendly gifts that your friends and loved ones can give to celebrate your nuptials.
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Consider the aluminum can. Does it ever have a positive environmental and social impact? Or does the liquid inside it just taste good? Perhaps you thought it was good to the last drop – but that can’s not quite done yet, and a short anatomy lesson will show you just why that’s true.
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Last week, Treehugger reported that residents of Concord, Massachusetts voted to ban the sale of all bottled water by next January, making it the first U.S. city ever to do so. It marks a growing trend by cities in the U.S., and throughout the world, that are ditching disposable plastic for more sustainable solutions.
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Mother's Day is this weekend here in the States, and for many of us, it's a time to tell the woman that raised us, fed us, and helped us become the incredibly intelligent, well-adjusted and sophisticated people that we are just how much she means to us. It sometimes means getting her a token of our affection, but it should hopefully never mean getting her something that she'll chuck out in a day or two. Planet Green has a great list of ideas for what you could do to have a green Mother's Day, so that you can cherish what you do and what you get her for years to come.
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Do you think turning off computers actually uses more energy than it saves? Grist's advice maven, Umbra Fisk, debunks the myth that powering down computers at night is not energy efficient.
