Eyewear made in Flint from recycled water bottles

Muddling through the water crisis in Flint, Michigan involved delivering bottled water to the city’s population of nearly 100,000 for almost two years. This was a city already in economic decline, of course, desperately in need of a helping hand. Today, I donated to an interesting Kickstarter project, to help build a new eyewear company in Flint, which will make eyeglass frames out of the tons of recycled water bottles that made their way to the city.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Somerville Alliance for Safe Streets

I have to admit that I spend a lot of time on Zoom these days, and it’s harder to continue that pace of videoconferencing. So I didn’t join a call of Somerville Alliance for Safe Streets (SASS) last night. But, today, I did catch up on SASS’s statement of purpose today and plugged into the outreach process going forward.
Read more

Inauguration Day and the Hill We Climb

Image
Today, I took the afternoon off from work and watched the Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the United States. It was the capstone that completed my journey to commit one civic act per day for four years. It’s something that I’ll never forget, just like Amanda Gorman at the ceremony today.
Read more