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Eco-bracelets for music lovers
Wear your love for your favorite eco-activist musician on your sleeve -- and help out a green nonprofit, too.
Thu, May 28 2009 at 12:50 PM
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Photo: Courtesy Wear Your Music
Love Ben Harper and Jack Johnson’s music and their environmental activism, too? Now you can wear your feelings on your sleeve — by buying a bracelet made with one of the musicians’ used guitar strings — while supporting an eco-charity too.
The bracelets are made by Wear Your Music, which nabs old guitar strings from musicians, adds on a 100 percent recycled silver clasp, and sells them — sending 100 percent of the profits to a charity of the artist’s choice. In Ben Harper’s case, that charity’s Living Lands & Waters, an environmental nonprofit that works to clean up American rivers. Jack Johnson chose 1% for the Planet.
For $150, either of the musicians’ bracelets can be yours. Prices for the bracelets range from $75 - $500. Order one, and it’ll arrive in a recycled DVD case, along with a certificate of authenticity.
Keep in mind that the 100-percent donation of the profits to charities only applies to the artists’ bracelets, not the “fashion bracelets” also sold on the site. I tend to prefer percentage of sales donations because percentage of profit donations are so untransparent (meaning there’s no way for you to know what portion of the $150 you spend will actually go to charity. In fact, if the company doesn’t turn a profit, no money would go to charity). Still, 100 percent of the profits seems like an impressive commitment.
Not sure whose bracelet to get? Here are the top 10 best green songs, as selected by By Alyssa Kropp, one of MNN’s student correspondents.
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Charlotte
Jun 04 2009 at 5:06 AM
That is so cool! For those fan of Jill Sobule, she may not be making a lot of headlines, but she's been around for awhile. Jill Sobule has been an active songwriter since the late 80s, and had several hits in the 1990s with her songs "I Kissed a Girl" and "Supermodel". Her most recent album, California Years, needed some creative financing to record and release. She didn't use military payday loans, she petitioned her fans to donate money for it, meaning she got fans to pay to make the record
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and then buy it. Perhaps the album should have been titled Chutzpah. Jill Sobule will need credit repair with her fans if they don't like the new record.
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