Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Whole Foods invites you to start the new year E-CYCLING!

January 9th (10am - 3pm)

Event name: E-Cycle

What is E-Cycle??? E-cycling recovers valuable materials from old electronics that can be used to make new products. As a result, we reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce pollution, save energy and save resources by extracting fewer raw materials from the earth. E-cycling also protects your surroundings - safe recycling of outdated electronics promotes sound management of toxic chemicals such as lead and mercury.

Allowable items to drop off include:
Small Appliances: microwaves, toasters, coffee makers,etc
Laptop Computers
Desktop computers, keyboards and mice
Mainframe computer systems
Cathcode Ray Tubes (CRT's) and Monitors
Modems and telephone boards
Hard drives, floppy drives and CD ROMs
Phones, fax machines & telecommunications hardware
Printers
Computer boards, CPUs & memory chips, circuit boards, connecting wires & cables

Please note, we cannot accept televisions for recycling. If you have a TV to recycle, please click here for more info.

Any hard drives in computers will be removed, scrubbed and destroyed by our partners at Esquire Environmental after collection.

* This event is brought to you courtesy of Whole Foods Cincinnati. 2693 Edmondson Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45209 513.531.8015

Monday, December 14, 2009

December 18th: Join Us for Final Friday Gallery Walk @ BLOOM

Final Friday "Future Blooms" Open House

This Final Friday December 18th from 5:00 to 8:00pm (also known as Frantic Friday), Keep Cincinnati Beautiful will host an open house for its “Future Blooms” program. Future Blooms aims to artistically enhance as many abandoned and boarded up properties in Cincinnati as possible.

Keep Cincinnati Beautiful’s artists enhance the properties by painting representations of doors, windows and vibrant window boxes on the boarded up parts of the buildings to make them appear new and in use.

Future Blooms’ goal is not only beautify homes and buildings, but also to strengthen the community's sense of safety and pride. These properties will no longer be a representation of abandonment but instead they’ll be little spots of colorful optimism that our city needs!

So remember: Stop by on Friday between 5 and 8 PM at our studio space on 1334 Main St. to meet our hardworking staff and to learn about this exciting new program! A limited supply of refreshments will be available.