April 1, 2008, 2:30 pm
Turning garbage into gold
Dr. Alexander Stein explores how a secretive childhood fueled one entrepreneur’s success. Share your thoughts on the column here.
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From Jason-Milwaukee
By nature I am a very creative person. Until two years ago, issues about the environment always took the back burner when faced with other pressing problems. Then, I decided to combine my interest in the planet coupled with my creative streak and greenbugz was born. I am relativly new with selling my products online and have gotten positive feedback. In my case, the earth is the limit. I am always inspired by articles about people taking their passion to the next level.
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Posted By Jason-Milwaukee : April 1, 2008 3:12 pm
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Intriguing that Weider’s interest in renewal from waste (in all senses of the word) can be analysed so superficially. Our society shuns waste the way it shuns death. Someone who finds a way to turn things around and embrace the negative to turn it into something good may well be looked at askance by mainstream minds. Why else the wide fascination with zombies, vampires and aliens? We don’t really want to confront it the way Weider seems to have done.
A few scraps of family history can be pieced together to fit several quite different explanations of an entrepreneur’s – or any individual’s – drive. While Stein’s brief exercise in pop analysis has some interesting points, as a reader, I wouldn’t credit it with more than entertainment value as a window on a soul.