Tag: Recycled Building Materials - Page 8
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Creative, Colorful Fence from Old Road Signs
What happens to old aluminum highway signs when they are taken down, traded in for new ones with updated information? I assumed they were recycled, since they're aluminum, but the reflective paint most of them are painted with
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Hardwood Floors & Basketball Courts Recycled into Skateboards
Watching basketball, do you ever wonder what happens to the wood flooring when the court has to be replaced? Well, in the case of the court at Virginia State University, the maple planks once played on
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Wrecked Boats Are Recycled Into Furniture
Eco-friendly wooden furniture can be hard to find, but we've seen some made from interesting, salvaged and green sources, from coffee grounds to old New York buildings. Now a South African furniture designer has
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Shipping Container Turned Coffee Bar in Austin (Video)
From making tofu to the coolest seed bank ever, CHOW have been serving up some great, green-minded video content of late. One of their latest efforts—a tour of the ubiquitous food trucks of Austin—features an
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A Home Office Design from Recycled Materials - Working with Contractors on Reuse
We're big into creative reuse here at TreeHugger, especially when it comes to architecture. From trains repurposed as bunkhouses to establishing building reuse centers for
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The Hub, a Shared Work Space for People Who Care. In a City near You!
Working in shared office spaces is an attractive solution for creative start-ups, and has become more and more sought-after in many of the bigger cities. Green Spaces in Manhattan has turned into a well-working
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Oregon Cabin Built With Nearly Zero Electricity and 100% Salvaged Materials
Just outside of Portland, Oregon, on a small local certified organic workers´ farm collective (that´s a mouthful), a small cabin is being built. Measuring just 16´x 20´ (small is the new big), it will house farmers
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FARM:shop is a Farm Growing in a Store
You could call FARM:shop a legal grow-op: they are growing vegetables inside an abandoned house instead of dope. And some tilapia fish, not to mention basil and chickens on the roof.
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Recycled Buildings Win British Awards for Ingenuity
They are called the AJ (Architect's Journal) Small Projects Awards but the winners turn out to be a celebration of recycled, sustainable and innovative buildings in England.
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Made of New York: Unique Furniture Made from Salvaged Manhattan Timber
Talk about local production: timber reclaimed from old Manhattan buildings is trucked to the South Bronx, where it's refashioned into the appropriately named Made of New York furniture collection. The work of John-Michael
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Green Roofed Shipping Container, Recycled Furniture At Lovely Pop Up Cultural Center in Buenos Aires
Designed to set up 'educational points' at different areas of the city, a new pop up, nomad cultural center has opened at the explanade of the Proa foundation in La Boca neighborhood, Buenos Aires.
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Old School Buses Reincarnated: Into a Working Bus Shelter
At the intersection of West Broad and Alps Road in Athens, Georgia, if you're looking to catch a bus, you can wait at the region's most innovative (and recycled) bus stop. It's made from three old school buses (years
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Discarded Cement Sacks Make For A Great Looking Monobloc Chair In Mexico
Felix, the chair in the picture above, is an experiment by Mexican studio Talco --whose wooden crates wall we featured last week; for a series of furniture made from waste from construction.
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Send in Your Dust for a Personalized Brick
Clean out the corners of your room, under the sofa and behind your bed and send the dust in to "Laid to Rest". If you do it quickly enough you can have your own personal brick made with your name on it.
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Seeding Education, and Environmental Awareness, in Guatemala with Plastic Bottle Schools
Here's some news that's impossible not to love: schools made from plastic bottles are being built—by students—across Guatemala. We showcased the first one last year, built in 2009 with 2,053 pounds of trash and now
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Recycled Sidewalks Make Cool But Scary Traffic Medians (Photos)
At New York City's Queens Plaza, where seven subway lines meet under the foot of the Queensboro Bridge, there are some new, very interesting traffic medians. Just a facet of a $75 million project to reorganize,
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Pretty Crazy Small, Hammock-Shaped Home With Recycled Materials In Paraguay
If you've been to any part of South America you're probably familiar with the Paraguayan hammock, a sort of knitted textile bed hanging from two poles very typical of areas with hot weather.
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How to Build an Earthship: Step-by-Step Slideshow (Video)
Image credit: Earthshipkirst Appalachian Gothic architecture made from recycled pallet wood is by no means the only DIY housing option using reclaimed materials. In fact, TreeHugger has featured countless posts on "earthships"—self-sufficient
