While banks, car giants and insurance corporations are getting multi-billion dollar bailouts from the US government, small businesses are suffering. One such enterprise, Rebuilders Source, is due to close it doors because of the downturn in the US economy, and the South Bronx is just about to loose a valuable green business in the process. Rebuilders Source is a home improvement store which sells reclaimed and donated building materials, all of which would have been consigned to a landfill otherwise. Sponsored by Green Worker Cooperatives, sadly Rebuilders Source will have closed it's doors by the time you are reading this. |