Signed, sealed, recycled

Bernie Zelazny wants to make the world a cleaner place, so he mails his recycling from Alpine to Austin

By Denise Gamino
Austin American-Statesman
Tuesday, May 31, 2005

ALPINE—Mail ‘em if you got ‘em.

These are words to live by if you are Bernie Zelazny. He’s an anti-dispose-all.

His efforts to save the planet take the concept of care packages to a new level. They are mass mailings with the emphasis on the mass. As in mounds of glass bottles. Pounds of plastic containers. And heaps of paperboard boxes and empty toilet paper tubes.

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Support from city folk takes root on the farm

by Elizabeth Weise
USA TODAY

A new way of farming is quietly sowing seeds of change. It has brought new life to family farms in Illinois, let city dwellers cultivate deep relationships with the people who grow their food in Rochester, N.Y., and allowed new farms to sprout up in Tulsa. The ultimate harvest may be the preservation of the family farm.

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