Every year, the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation hosts the Night of Spectacles- a runway show featuring dresses made from recycled eyeglasses. Several of the dresses reside at the McGee Group headquarters in Marietta, GA. This year the McGee Group is giving people a chance to vote on their favorite recycled eyeglass dress and give an … [Read more...]
As many of you know, I am big into reusing eyewear and just in case you think this might be dumb, but this spectacle necklace is from Anthropologie and retails for a whopping $498.00. I am sure you have a few old frames hanging around, a trip to a bead store, a drill to make some holes, use leather or old chains and voila a cool holiday … [Read more...]
Several years ago we introduced a new type of Eyewear- Refracting Eyewear that was seen on Clare Lopeman's Runway. I am sure you may have some old refractors sitting around, you can paint them and make up your own eyewear for some eco friendly eyewear. Even if they were a tad heavy to wear. painting them and using as display items would definitely … [Read more...]
We have had requests for American Made products and wood eyecare products. There is a growing trend for wood eyewear and accessories, partly because the eco- friendliness of it and I think due to unemployment, many handy carpenters have have the vision to indulge their hobby and make some money. Based upon consumers requests and comments on … [Read more...]
From Margherita Marchioni an artist who salvages materials and upcycles them into art called Materiamorfosi. Love the reused eyeglasses made into animal sculptures … [Read more...]
I absolutely love this. Talk about a Destination Eyecare Office? Check out Terracycle's Office who has creatively up- cycled trash into a cool, unique and trash look. Think about how many of your patients would want to come in and check out your new- reused look TerraCycle, specializes in making new products from hard-to-recycle waste, from … [Read more...]
Since we had a lot of comments from our readers on shredding documents: Here are some great ideas on how to re-use shredded paper. Why buy paper if you don't have to? Eye Can Save The average office worker uses 10.000 sheets of paper per year or 1 sheet very 12 minutes 15.8 Million tons of wood would be saved or enough to build 1 Million … [Read more...]
Some eyewear is so old and grotty, but you just hate to throw it away adding more into our landfills. Sebastian Baptiste, a student at Savannah College of Art and Design incorporated eyewear into his up-cycled newspaper dress … [Read more...]
With the amount of people wearing contact lenses, how many of contact lenses end up in trash and ultimately in our landfills? So what else can you do with old contact lenses? It is not OK to flush disposable contact lenses down the toilet and sink. First it can clog up the pipes and 2nd, no matter how small contact lenses are, they have to land … [Read more...]
American Express Open conducted a study of 600 retail small business owners and managers on Buying Local. The goal was to get impressions of whether or not there was a trend, did it actually exist and to understand the effect on their businesses. Of the retailers polled: 51 % said they believe there is indeed a growing “buy local” … [Read more...]
We thank MODO's ECO Collection for sponsoring our recent promotion and especially thank those of you who contributed your comments on how you are greening your life and work. Each comment was an inspiration to all of us on how little effort it can take to Green and Save. It was interesting to see how others' efforts can inspire us, several … [Read more...]
Thousands of contact lens cases are thrown away every year, landing up in landfills. While small and seemingly not taking up too much space, when you add up the non-biodegradable lens cases, it really adds up. Contact lens cases can be sterilized for reuse and since they are plastic, you should be able to reuse for the lifetime of the … [Read more...]
If you live in California, we are on water rationing still and our water bill has been going up. (9% ). Even if you are renting, those water hikes will show up in your next rent increase. Just because you are not footing the water bill at the office is no reason why to run the tap. Did you know the average household of 4 can save 40 gallons of … [Read more...]
When The McGee Group told me they signed Russell Simmon's Argyleculture brand for Eyewear, I can't tell you how excited I was. Russell Simmons happens to be one of my heros for many reasons: He is an activist, a vegan due to environmental and animal rights concerns, really into yoga and gives back considerably. USA Today named Russell … [Read more...]
Urban Spectacles in Chicago, is probably one of the most creative eyewear designers. He is known for his wood eyewear, but has also created Eco-Friendly eyewear from vinyl records, bicycle parts, aluminum, But here he is reusing beer bottles to design custom eyewear. Of course this is not something that you would really want to sell (think lawsuit) … [Read more...]
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