Vendor A. Allen on Going Green

Going green means pursuing knowledge and practices that can lead to more environmentally friendly and ecologically responsible decisions and lifestyles, which can help protect the environment and sustain its natural resources for current and future generations.

I can easily see how recycling fits into this category. I know people who recycle for money – as I used to do. Although I am clean now, I took my empty beer cans to metal shops and sold the aluminum by the pound.

I also know of people who recycle for the sake of the environment. Either way, for money or environment, it helps sustain natural resources for current and future generations.

All of this is all good, but I would like to elaborate on how StreetWise is going green in pursuing knowledge and practices that can lead to more environmentally friendly and ecologically responsible lifestyles.

StreetWise has a way of recycling people, which is good for the environment. We still practice a hand up, not a hand out. Most of us vendors have turned from a life of crime or begging to becoming upright, hardworking businesspeople who daily go out to earn an honest living selling a very good quality, informative and entertaining magazine.

There’s a lot of things you can recycle, from plastics, to paper, to metals, even sunlight. But nothing is more important than people.