EARTHWORKS@Home

Welcome to EARTHWORKS@Home.  On this page you'll find information and advice to help you make responsible choices in your home, as a consumer, and in your community.

Check back at this space periodically for more news about how you can help protect communities and the environment.  Each month a new report, analysis, consumer tip, or action will be profiled, along with an archive of articles and reports and links to related organizations.

Bikes for the World:
Instead of dumping your old bike,
let it improve someone's life overseas

It's easy to buy a bike in the United States.  They're relatively cheap and easily available. 

Not so in many overseas communities. New bicycles typically are imported and subject to heavy taxes, forcing many people to walk.  

Bikes for the World (BfW) addresses this problem by collecting used bikes in the U.S. and shipping them abroad. Overseas charities sell the reconditioned BfW-donated bicycles at affordable, often credited, rates. 

EARTHWORKS and Bikes-for-the-World have something in common--a commitment to the environment and to keeping metals and other waste in the economy and out of landfills.  The more bikes we re-use and recycle the better.  That's why EARTHWORKS and BfW will be partnering to promote bicycle re-use and recycling.