Day 320: Green Businesses And Basements
In this year on the road, YERT has come across many individuals planting seeds of green right from their living rooms, kitchens, and basements.
We met two such people in the Twin cities area in May. Jeannie Piekos was kind enough to host us for lunch at her home in M like all zipper bag companies shes researched, does not release toxins even after many uses. 
inneapolis along with her family and two dogs. It was an appropriate place to meet, because thats where her green business started. After years of washing out bags by hand, Jeanie asker her husband to design a device that could wash the bags in the dishwasher. The result: Bag-E-Wash.
responsible. Just a few pieces of nylon snap together to hold, wash, and dry plastic zipper bags in the dishwasher. She recommends using the freezer bag variety because it is durable lasting up to 50 washes and,
Tony Kvale has a similar story. His board game, Head1Liners, looks like any other game on the shelf, but is made of recycled materials paper, soy-based ink, and recycled glass. He works from his St. Paul home with help from his 3-yr-old daughter, Greta, who receives free room and board for helping her daddy sort colored game pieces in their basement. :)
While Tony's wife, Brenda, made sidewalk chalk drawings outside with Greta, Ben, Mark and Tony played a round of Head1Liners, which is simple and easy to pick up. One player chooses a picture from a box and then all of the players must each make up a headline for the image. All the players vote (but not for their own!) and move according to the number of votes they received.
Wanna try? Kudos to whoever comes up with the best headline for this shot of Ben. (It's a sneak peak of what is coming up in a future blog entry.)
