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Great Looking Trash Can + Furniture with Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic from Chile
Chilean designer Rodrigo Alonso has come up with a new line of furniture and accessories made of post-consumer recycled plastic, moulded into cool polyhedral shapes. One of the best: a trash can that looks so nice
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Demand for Lithium to Grow, and Chile's Desert Will Be Key Source (Video)
Chile's Salar de Atacama desert is a major source for the world's lithium, key ingredient in the batteries we use in our laptops, cell phones and other gadgets every day. And, key ingredient in batteries for a
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Clever and Crazy Recycled Design Ideas from Latin America (Slideshow)
If anything, we Latin Americans are resourceful and creative. Think about it this way: we've been through lots of crisis, and finding new ways to make something out of nothing is our specialty.
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Chile Announces New Wind Power Projects, Solar Farm, and Thermal Plant
Seems like a good week for South America in terms of encouragement of renewable energies. Yesterday we mentioned
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PVC Advertising Banners as Shower Curtains, Puffs, Cushions, by Reprint
It all began with Freitag, a Swiss brand that came up with the idea of using tarps from trucks to create messenger bags. After that, it was only a matter of time before more designers saw the potential in large PVC canvases from
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New Solar Refrigerator Prototype from Chile
Even if each time the words ‘solar refrigerator’ come in the news it sounds like a groundbreaking story, truth is the idea of using heat to create cold is pretty old. A French inventor came up with a concept to do
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7 Greenest Spring Break Trips
For most people, spring break conjures up memories (or expectations) of beaches, beer, and--if MTV is your source--lots of bikinis. And while there’s nothing wrong with collecting your best friends and heading out for a
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Can Patchwork Actually Look Cool? One Chilean Designer Proves So
For those of us who don't have great memories of patchwork, the work of Chilean designer Loreto Correa Sanfuentes is certainly something to look at, proving that old practices can always take a new
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8 Weird (and Somehow Cool) Things from Reclaimed Puma Trainers
Seems like Chilean designers are really embracing the reuse culture and taking it to whole new levels. After discovering some really cool boots from plastic bags and a set of clothes with (yes) cigarette butts reuse from Chilean creators, now we
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Green Façade Covers Chilean Building by Enrique Browne
Enrique Browne has designed an interesting green façade for an office building on an important site in Concepción, Chile. A free plant "volume" that looks to the East, North and West, protected from the sun by laminated wood sections that support
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Recycled Cigarette Butts Clothing. No kidding!
Chilean designer Alexandra Guerrero has been experimenting with what just may be the last thing anyone would think of as clothing material: cigarette butts. At first thought, that may sound over the top, or like
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Seriously Cool Boots from Recycled Plastic Bags
We've talked about plastic bags fusing before as a way to keep polyethylene bags going, and even pointed you to a tutorial to DIY, but so far we hadn't seen the material applied to footwear and in such an elegant
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Chile's Climate Change Plan Focuses on Research
Last week, president Michele Bachellet introduced Chile's Plan of Action for Climate Change. The four year long program doesn't set specific goals to reduce emissions, but announces research plans to examine
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2008 AR Awards Announced
The Architectural Review awards for Emerging Architecture have been released and I like the winners a lot. This competition doesn't go after the big, highly visible projects but is "Intended to bring wider international recognition to a talented new
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Argentina Vetoes Law to Protect Glaciers, Favors Mining Projects
As usually happens in Argentina, authorities seem to have favored big corporations over environmental common sense. Last Friday, Argentinean President
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Kelgwo Textile Art
A women's textile collective located on the island of Chiloe in southern Chile, Kelgwo Textile Art crafts gorgeous garments and home accessories out of handspun 100 percent organic wool that has been dyed with local plants and
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Design with Waste from Print Industry, by Onceneto in Chile
(Pictures: Courtesy of designers.) Chilean design studio Onceneto teamed up with La Tercera newspaper and has been doing an interesting job recovering waste material from the paper's print process. We've briefly showed you one of their products before
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Controversial Hydropower Project in Chile Enters Environmental Analysis Phase
(Picture: The Chilean Aysen region, where a company seeks to install five new hydroelectric power stations. Source: HidroAysen.) In the midst of protests by environmental groups but also in front of an energy crisis that demands new power sources for
