Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/author/kambui-moore/)
A Detroit collaboration aims to recycle, battle poverty and create jobs by turning old tires and other recyclables into sandals. Treads Motor City Sandals is a small business spurred by the efforts of University of Michigan students and Cass Community Social Services.
In his spare time Chicago resident Joe Miller runs what may be the coolest eco-friendly company with the coolest name ever. Print-A-Forest makes a free computer software that turns your routine printing projects into a plant-a-tree fundraiser. By getting a small message from plant-a-tree sponsors across the bottom of your printed pages, you pay for planting trees. An example: “Powered by State Farm” could appear on the bottom of the page if the insurance company sponsored the planting. Pretty simple.