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Cooler – They make the vacuum-sealed coolers now, which can reduce the number of ice bags (wrapped in plastic) you use. 

Bike lights – Lights for your bike are essential at night, and you can use them over and over. Haven’t thrown any away yet, but likely will have to get new batteries soon. I’m investing in rechargeable batteries to further extend the lights’ life. 

One reason for the enduring power of donuts is their simplicity. They are easy to make; everyone likes them. Many cuisines around the world have a place for sweet, fried dough. Perhaps that explains why immigrants to Los Angeles have gravitated towards making and selling them. Donuts represent an achievable, straightforward path to an American life into which one can assimilate and from which one can profit. The donut embodies the ideal of a unified nation, even in partisan times when Trumpists declare immigrants to be criminals, and progressives often portray America itself as a historically, and perhaps inherently, racist enterprise.

“We wanted to see if smaller-scale producers could make money from their side projects,” says Stacey Price, ahead of the opening of the third outpost of her Shop Made In DC franchise in the city’s Georgetown. “It turns out they can.” Whereas “Made In…” concept stores can often feel worthy, Shop Made In DC has, largely, elevated the idea that homemade goods must inevitably be cutesy trinkets, destined for some forgotten corner of a cupboard. Linen shirts, hand-stitched leather wallets, cooking sauces and hand-thrown ceramic bowls – all made in DC – are a sample of the goods for sale. Shop Made In DC, founded two years ago, was born from a fund established by the city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, to encourage entrepreneurs to make things in Washington. It’s bearing fruit and has also demonstrated that the appetite for bricks-and-mortar shops, in DC at least, is far from waning.

Photos of turtles with straws stuck in their nostrils have been widely circulated, and spurred calls for an end to plastic straws. But the oceans and landfills are burdened with other polluting plastics.

Having reached his limit in the donut trade, Winchell moved up the ladder of the American fast-food business, acquiring Denny’s, a restaurant chain. He eventually cashed out of both during the 1980s. According to Allison, he emerged with $60m and moved to Las Vegas, where he didn’t have to pay income tax. He spent his last years eating broccoli and bran flakes at the casino buffets, and taking his private jet to his horse farm in Kentucky.

"That’s why it’s important to change consumers’ mindset rather than the material. Stores like One World-Zero Waste are showing different ways to change your lifestyle," Miller said.

Protecting communities also means building homes and businesses with fire-resistance in mind, using materials like metal rooftops and cement composite siding. Often, homes are lost to embers ahead of “the flaming front” by up to 10 miles, Hurteau says. Once one house starts—with a spark that catches on dry leaves in a rain gutter or drifts into an attic through a vent—the fire spreads house to house.

His brother sold the company, but Harvey stayed on, and was in the business for more than 27 years before retiring. In 2007, he took a pottery course at Chattanooga State and was inspired to build a studio and resume his practice. He made pottery for several years, and became a member of the In-Town Gallery.

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Supermarket shelves are the latest spotlight for McDaniel, 48, who until last winter was most known for his bodacious selection of beer at his store, Norm’s Market, Keg & Bottleshop.

When the moratorium began in 2015, Guinea-Bissau had a stockpile of about 400,000 logs – one of the largest in Africa.