ReUse Industries
E-Newsletter
September 2006

‘Did You Know?’Facts of the month:

Recycling glass, instead of making it from raw materials, reduces mining waste by 70%, water use by 50%, and air-pollution by 20% (source: Environmental Defense Fund).

Sixth Annual Sustainability Festival

Saturday, Sept. 30th; Sunday, Oct. 1st
Athens County Fairgrounds
West Union Street
Athens, OH 45701
www.susfest.org

This year’s sustainability festival promises to have something fun and educational for everyone:

• The ReUse Art Show (cosponsored by ReUse Industries)
• Live Music (including the Recycler’s Ball: a fundraiser for ReUse Industries and the Sustainability Festival)
• Over 40 Workshops
• A Children’s Program (put on by Rural Action’s Environmental Learning Program)
• A Documentary Festival
• Food
• Vendors
• And Much More!

Daily admission to the event is only $3. 10% of sales by vendors will be donated to the event. For more information about attending or volunteering, visit www.susfest.org.

Recycler’s Ball

Athens Sustainabilty Festival
Saturday, Sept. 30th
7:30 pm
Athens County Fairgrounds
West Union Street
Athens, OH 45701

ReUse Industries is proud to announce the Recycler’s Ball, a fundraiser for ReUse Industries and the Sustainability festival. Held at this year’s Sustainability Festival, tickets, which can also be used for a door-prize drawing, are available the day of the show. There is no fee to attend the event, other than the Sustainability Festival’s $3 door fee, but a donation will be asked for. For more information, contact Candice at (740) 448-2119.

Reuse Art Show

Athens Sustainabilty Festival
Saturday, Sept. 30th; Sunday, Oct. 1st
Athens County Fairgrounds
West Union Street
Athens, OH 45701

Cosponsored by ReUse Industries, the Reuse Art Show is modeled after art shows at ReUse Industries’ Recyclebration Festivals. Dozens of local and national artists will be gathering to display their artwork, ranging from metal sculptures to wire jewelry.

A large feature of the event is P.R. Miller—a reuse artist whose various pieces of reused art have begun to draw attention. Miller, who is nicknamed the “Grizzled Wizard,” has recently had a documentary film made on him: The Grizzled Wizard of Waste Not Want Not. The video will be screened at this year’s documentary festival, and Miller will display several pieces of his work in person at the art show. More information about the documentary can be found at www.joshuatreevideo.com.

Artists interested in displaying artwork can register up to the day of the event. ReUse Industries will be providing artists with a ten-percent-off voucher for displaying their artwork.

For more information or to register your artwork, contact Joe Rad at (740) 591-5253.

ReUse Welcomes New VISTAs

From left to right: Max Felsher, Leo DeLuca, Sherri Oliver, and Ben Frese.

ReUse Industries is proud to introduce three new AmeriCorps*VISTA members—Sherri Oliver, Ben Frese, and Leo DeLuca—and reintroduce Max Felsher, a VISTA member that has signed on for a second year of service. VISTAs (Volunteers in Service to America) are full-time volunteers that, through the AmeriCorps program, spend one year of their lives building the capacity of organizations such as ReUse Industries.

Leo DeLuca has a degree in education from Ohio University, is from Dayton, and is a drummer for the local rock group Southeast Engine. He started working with ReUse Industries last summer as an AmeriCorps Summer Associate. As a VISTA Leo, who has several local connections, will be promoting the reuse economy to Ohio University administration and students.

Sherri Oliver is from the Zanesville area and has a political science degree from Ohio University. She is working on ReUse Industries’ community-outreach goals--setting up ReUse Industries’ informational booth at local events, creating and giving presentations, and identifying new outreach outlets inside of local communities.

Ben Frese will be overseeing all of ReUse Industries’ collaboration with other local non-profit organizations. He grew up in Cambridge, Ohio and has degrees in environmental studies and english from the University of the Pacific, located in California’s Central Valley. In his first month of service, Ben’s major goal will be to plan this year’s Make a Difference Day volunteer project.

Max Felsher holds an earth-studies degree from Stanford University. Originally from Boston, Max’s deep commitment to the environment led him to join ReUse Industries’ VISTA program. In his second year of service, Max will administer ReUse Industries’ Community-Collections grant, and he will continue to make ReUse Industries more sustainable and efficient. ________________________________________________________________

As always, if you have any creative ReUse ideas or would like to tell us about a project you are working on, please let us know. Send them in to vista@reuseindustries.org and we will include them in the next E-Newsletter. ReUse Industries encourages you to help spread the ReUse lifestyle and wishes you a wonderful month!

ReUse Industries
74815 US Hwy 50
Albany, Ohio
45710
740-698-8200
Fax: 740-698-4014
Tues-Sat, 10 am-6 pm
www.reuseindustries.org

ReUse Thrift Store Athens
100 North Columbus Road
Athens, Ohio
45701
740-594-5103
Fax: 740-698-4014
Mon-Sat, 9 am-5 pm

ReUse Thrift Store Wellston
102 South Ohio Avenue
Wellston, Ohio
45692
740-384-1323
Fax: 740-698-4014
Tue-Sat, 9 am-5 pm