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Posted inFeatured News Archive

Zero-Waste Store Serving Brooklyn and Beyond Springs Out of Pandemic Job Loss

by Jessy Edwards December 7, 2020January 25, 2021

After being let go from her job at the height of the pandemic this summer, Kayli Kunkel was pushed to rethink what was important to her.  She’d spent years building her career as a marketing director at a tech company, but as she faced unemployment in a nosediving economy, and amid a “social justice reckoning moment,” […]

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This New Crown Heights Eatery Lets Nothing Go to Waste

by Andrea Leonhardt February 15, 2019January 28, 2021
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