What Can We Do About Used Carpet?

Some of you might know about my Squidoo page dedicated to recycling used carpet and keeping the 5 million tons of carpet out of the landfills each year.

But I thought I would throw some of the information here just to let those who don’t know have a chance to see it too.

A Quote from my page says this:

“As the most recent statistics say we piled 5 billion pounds of carpet in the landfills in 2005. That’s ridiculous when we are complaining about putting plastic bottles in the landfills because they don’t decompose. It’s virtually the same thing, carpet is nylon or latex or even in the case of PET poly-It IS recycled pop bottles!

So what can we do?

Well, there are several leaders in the industry that have gotten off their rumps and decided to start recollecting carpet for recycling or up-cycling.”

These companies and their descriptions are listed on my Squidoo lens for you to take a look at. Maybe you know of more things I can add! Let me know either here or at the lens it’s self.

Go here to chime in!

How to Start a Band

I have been asked several times, because of my experience in music and bands and performing live, about teaching people how to do what I have done. My experience about bands is now even double fold as I have entered into an agreement to play in a second band now.

I have to admit that I DO NOT know everything, but I have made enough mistakes that I can tell you how to avoid them. And I also have accumulated enough brilliance in my friends that I can confidently say now, that I can tell you how to succeed at starting a band.

I will be going in depth here over the next few episodes about many different aspects of creating a band, or joining a band that already has some circuit experience.

Much of what I will be drawing from is research I have conducted and have already started writing about over at squidoo.com. My latest installment is an ever-changing lens on how to use twitter for your band, which of course is located here.

Of course the Twitter installment is just the tip of the iceburg. I am currently working on a master lens that will be the hub showing you a current 35 links to places that are for PR, distro, advertising, merch, even helping to fund your band.

For now jump into the links above and follow along with me here at the blog as I go even further in depth. Don’t forget my RSS feed!

-aric

How to start a band

I have actually been rather slack on my postings because of my efforts elsewhere.

I have just added some new stuff over at squidoo on a couple of topics near and dear to me. I hope you’ll indulge me as I do a little reader’s digest version here.

The main page in question is a jumping point for several different directions. How To Start A Band is a one stop shop for putting together a band.

On its rather long page I cover many topics and it continues to grow. Here’s a list of topics covered:

Auditions

Practice Sessions

Public Relations

Dealing with Club Owners and Event Organizers

Getting started with small Gigs

Putting Together A Songlist

Creating a Press Kit

Create your Own Buzz

A Checklist for Your Gigs

The Pros and Cons of the Music Unions

Merchandising Your Band

Offline Public Relations

Equipment Considerations

Online Public Relations

Writing and Copyright

Being In The Studio

Production

In Country Touring

Sponsorships

Keeping Up With The Expectations of Your New Band

Upcoming features will focus on setting up a band online and touring out of country.

Of course all words of wisdom to help out the new kids just getting started are very welcome, any comments you can lend are very welcome.

Thanks for dropping by!

-aric