2013 TRASHION SHOW – Call for Artists!

TRASHION Show 2013 – Designers of all ages wanted to create fashion from trash!

Interested in fashion design and/or an eco challenge? DPL, UNT, City of Denton Solid Waste & Recycling and SCRAP Denton are teaming up again to put on a fashion show featuring garments made of recycled trash & other used materials. Designs will be professionally photographed and featured in a runway show at the Denton Redbud Festival on April 20. Prizes will be given for best fashion in each age group.

Deadline to register for this event is Feb. 28, 2013.

Interested in participating, Designers contact: Juli.Gonzalez@cityofdenton.com

Magazine Exchange

What happens to old magazines? They end up in the Magazine Exchange!  It is the perfect place to find vintage and specialty magazines, pictures for projects, something new to read, or a place to recycle magazines from home. The Exchange will be held February 25, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the Emily Fowler Central Library, 502 Oakland Street.  We may call it an “exchange” but you do not have to bring magazines to take some home.  Magazines left over after the event will be recycled as part of the effort to keep Denton green.

For more information please call Laura Douglas at (940) 349-8752, or e-mail Laura.Douglas@cityofdenton.com

 

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Trashy Fashion Show Info Session

Photo by Trevor Dykstra

Calling all teens interested in fashion design and an eco challenge! The Denton Public Library, City of Denton Recycling and the University of North Texas Fashion Design Group, Coffee and Couture,  are teaming up to put on a fashion show featuring garments made out of recycled trash and other used materials to be held as an Earth Day celebration later this year. Teens, with the guidance of UNT students, will design garments out of everyday materials that may otherwise be sent to landfills.

To learn how to be a part of this exciting and creative opportunity, join us Wednesday, January 11, from 7 – 8 p.m. at the North Branch Library, 3020 N. Locust St, where we will present more information and ideas.

For more information and to register, contact Juli Gonzalez, Public Services Librarian at 940.349.8741 or at juli.gonzalez@cityofdenton.com.

 

 

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Make a Paperback Book Lamp

Fold old (or new) paperback books in various shapes and place them onto a hanging lamp cord.  Demonstration of folding techniques will be followed by, well, lots of folding.  Paperback books, lamp cord, and ceiling hook will be provided.  You may bring your own books if you like, but because of the weight it is recommended that you use paperbacks.

When: Saturday December 17 at 2pm

Please register for this class.  Call 940-349-8762 or email Leslie.Couture@cityofdenton.com .

-Leslie

Magazine Exchange

What happens to old magazines? They end up in the Magazine Exchange!  It is the perfect place to find vintage and specialty magazines, pictures for projects, something new to read, or a place to recycle magazines from home. The Exchange will be held July 30, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the Emily Fowler Central Library, 502 Oakland Street. Magazines left over after the event will be recycled as part of the effort to keep Denton green.

For more information please call Laura Douglas at (940) 349-8749, or e-mail Laura.Douglas@cityofdenton.com

 

For other news items on the City of Denton, visit our website at www.cityofdenton.com, go to Quick Information and click on Press Releases.

Magazine Exchange at Fowler

The Denton Public Library will hold a magazine exchange at the Emily Fowler Central Library, 502 Oakland Street, on Saturday, April 24th from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

The exchange will take place behind the library during the Arts & Jazz Festival. Customers can bring magazines from home and exchange them for different titles left by others or removed from the library’s collection. Magazines left over after the event will be recycled as part of the effort to keep Denton green.

There is no charge to attend this event and it is open to the public.

For more information please call Jess Turner at 940.349.8256, or e-mail Jess.Turner@cityofdenton.com.

For other news items on the City of Denton, visit our website at www.cityofdenton.com, go to Quick Information and click on Press Releases.

Fowler Magazine Exchange

Greetings all you periodical people.

This coming Saturday January 30th from 10-4pm, the Emily Fowler Library will be hosting the quarterly Magazine Exchange. Bring old magazines you don’t want to the exchange and/or just come and take a few. Its always free and the titles range from those you see in our magazine racks to whatever the public brings in!

Have a doctor’s office that needs browsing materials? Going on a trip? Want to expand your reading without paying for it? Come get some!

Old magazines will be recycled.

Learn about GreenSense at the Library!

The GreenSense Energy Efficiency Rebate Program (GreenSense) offers rebates to Denton Municipal Electric (DME) customers who perform authorized energy efficiency improvements in their homes or businesses.  This program is a great way for residential, retail, and commercial customers to use energy more efficiently and save money doing it.

Join us at the South Branch of the Denton Public Library at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 14 when a representative from DME will be available to talk and answer questions about the benefits of the GreenSense Program.  

Everyone receiving electric service from DME is eligible to participate in the GreenSense Program. Rebates are available only for qualifying equipment. The availability of funding for the GreenSense Program is limited, so all rebates are processed on a first come, first serve basis.  

For more information please contact Kimberly Wells at kimberly.wells@cityofdenton.com or at 940-349-8796.

 

Care about recycling?

I’m reading Green House eco friendly disposal and recycling at home by Norm Crampton.  It’s a thin book with an A-Z list of ways to recycle just about anything in your home. 

Aluminum Cans – most people recycle them, but why is it important to?

Because curbside recycling depends on aluminum can recycling-they’re the only household discard that pays its own way around the recovery-reuse cycle. 

Bird Poop

The stuff that falls on bird-cage liner is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus and makes good fertilizer for your plants. 

Stale Beer

Make a good shampoo rinse (we have books on this at the library: just type Herbal cosmetics as a subject)

There are many more subjects and this is not the only book that we have only having a green home.  Take a look and educate yourself.  Plus check out the Keep Denton Beautiful website.

–Leslie