NEXTSTEP RECYCLING'S BLOG
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Earth Day Sale to PROMOTE ReUSE!
- Posted on 04.21.09
Related causes: Environment
GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK! We're honoring Earth Day by offering 25% off all items in our ReUSE Stores (except laptops)! We have lamps, cameras, clocks, stereos, DVD players, computers, cell phones, laptops, desks, office chairs, file cabinets, AND MORE! Did you know buying 1 refurbished computer saves the equivalent to taking 1/2 of a car off the road, saving 68% of one US household's allotment of electricity for a year, and a net cost savings of $670.00!
Take the Earth Day pledge and only buy refurbished technology on April 22nd!
http://nextsteprecycling.org/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1240340065&archive=&start_from=&ucat=4&
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NextStep’s computer placement in Guatemala
- Posted on 10.20.08
Related causes: Environment
Maria Antonieta Ixcoteyac Velásquez, the co-founder INEPAS, an aid program in Guatemala, visits NextStep Recycling in Eugene. Thanks to Eugene’s NextStep electronics recycling program, nearly 3,500 poor Guatemalan children have gained computer access in the past six years. That’s the firsthand report from Maria Antonieta Ixcoteyac Velásquez, who directs a NextStep partner organization in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Velásquez is in Eugene this week, telling NextStep employees and volunteers how their work is changing lives in one of the poorest regions of the world.
“The development of a country is proportionate to the development of each of its inhabitants,” Velásquez told a group Monday night that also included EugeneMayor Kitty Piercy. Velásquez, a social worker, co-founded INEPAS (the Spanish acronym for the Institute of Spanish Language and Social Aid Programs) in 1994. The agency uses proceeds from its Spanish immersion language program for visiting adults to improve educati...Read More -
NextStep’s computer placement in Guatemala
- Posted on 10.20.08
Related causes: Environment
Maria Antonieta Ixcoteyac Velásquez, the co-founder INEPAS, an aid program in Guatemala, visits NextStep
Recycling in Eugene. Thanks to Eugene’s NextStep electronics recycling program, nearly 3,500 poor Guatemalan children have gained computer access in the past six years. That’s the firsthand report from Maria Antonieta Ixcoteyac Velásquez, who directs a NextStep partner organization in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Velásquez is in Eugene this week, telling NextStep employees and volunteers how their work is changing lives in one of the poorest regions of the world.
“The development of a country is proportionate to the development of each of its inhabitants,” Velásquez told a group Monday night that also included EugeneMayor Kitty Piercy. Velásquez, a social worker, co-founded INEPAS (the Spanish acronym for the Institute of Spanish Language and Social Aid Programs) in 1994. The agency uses proceeds from its Spanish immersion language program for visiting adults to improve educat...Read More -
America Selects Eugene Resident Lorraine Kerwood as One of the Nation's Top Hometown Heroes
- Posted on 10.20.08
Related causes: Environment
For the past nine weeks, hundreds of thousands of members of the American public have been casting
their votes online to decide the country's favorite hometown heroes in the 6th Annual Volvo for life Awards (http://www.volvoforlifeawards.com). The polls are officially closed and Eugene's Lorraine Kerwood isamong nine finalists for this prestigious award. The final decision now rests in the hands of a distinguished panel of celebrity judges who are experts on care, conscience and character -- Hank Aaron, Sen. Bill Bradley, Maya Lin, Dr. Sally Ride, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Mae Jemison and Edsel Ford. The judges will now review Kerwood and eight other finalists' nominations to select the program's top three winners in the categories of Safety, Quality of Life and Environment and the Volvo for life Awards grand award winner. Kerwood, who created an electronics recycling and distribution center, NextStep, which brings refurbished computers to disadvantaged communities, is one of three f...Read More
