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This blog was orginally posted on Earth Day Network on 5/1/12

By Leanna Reece
Hipcycle Scholar at Hipcycle.com

This is a guest blog from Hipcycle, a recent Earth Day exhibitor on the National Mall.
If you are reading this post, you are most likely already taking steps toward “greening” your lifestyle. Recycling has become easier than ever, with curbside recycling in many [...]

Hipcycle Partners With FunkyJunk to Launch U.S. Distribution Of Cambodian Upcycled Fair Trade Goods
(OCEAN, NJ) – In developing countries, where garbage collection services are minimal and environmental awareness takes second place to basic survival, plastic bags are everywhere: clogging drains, choking animals, and blighting already difficult lives.
FunkyJunk Recycled is an innovative social enterprise based in [...]

Hey! Have a really cool upcycling DIY idea, or an opinion about upcycling? See a trend coming we should know about? Environmental or societal impacts of upcycling? We’d love to have you write for our blog!
Our goal is to continue to make our blog a source of information and education about all things upcycling, and we could [...]

That's me, presenting at FDU.
Last Friday I had the honor of making a presentation at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Institute for Sustainable Enterprise as part of their Breakfast Seminar Series. I spoke on upcycling and the upcycling industry. They get some real heavy hitters for this Seminar Series, and draw a really well-informed, passionate group of attendees every [...]

The great folks over at Give to Get Jobs are featuring Hipcycle as their "Social Enterprise of the Month." Browse over to their blog to read their interview with me, where they ask such questions as:

What does Social Enterprise mean to you?
How does Hipcycle have a positive impact on society?
How do you balance the profit mission [...]

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I checked out the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) recently. I went specifically to check out an exhibitor that makes furniture out of all sorts of found objects. Beautiful stuff, but Hipcycle is not going to be in the $2000 chair business (find out why here), so I [...]