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Betty Belts at Earth Day Santa Barbara


Please come visit our booth at Earth Day in Santa Barbara Sunday, April 20th!
As a sponsor of the Community Environmental Council, Betty Belts was invited to participate in this very special Earth Day Festival which is located in the beautiful Sunken Gardens behind the courthouse in downtown Santa Barbara. Donna and Allie will be there […]

The Story Of Stuff


This was forwarded to me today by a fellow COOP America Green Business Network member.
Everyone should see this for many enlightening yet entertaining video.
Well worth the 20 minutes.

THE STORY OF STUFF

An excerpt from the website, where you can also find many resources and ways to help:
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look […]

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and REinvent!


Here’s my contribution to Blog Action Day
How many ways can motto Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and REinvent be applied in your life?
I started using this motto many years ago for my company policy. I’ve actually made an art of it, some people say.
Here is a very short list of things I do with the business and […]

Please Nominate Betty Belts For COOP America’s Green Business Of The Year!


Please consider nominating us for the COOP America People’s Choice Award as Green Business Of The Year! Only 15 more days left, closes Sept. 18th.
The ten COOP America Aproved Green Businesses with the most nominations will be feautured. It would be awesome if Betty Belts was one of them. We are already a member of […]

Plastic is Evil


“If you could fast-forward 10,000 years and do an archaeological dig…you’d find a little line of plastic. What happened to those people? Well, they ate their own plastic and disrupted their genetic structure and weren’t able to reproduce. They didn’t last very long because they killed themselves.” - Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Ph.D., an expert on […]

I Love Freecycle


With a motto like Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and REinvent, I’m a big fan of finding a home for everything and not consuming more than I need. At the Betty Belts warehouse, I have a nice little setup with a few other local businesses, in which they save their used boxes and packing materials for me […]