Tag: Recycling
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School kids convince Crayola to start recycling their pens
With nothing more than a marker and a blank sheet of paper, children are capable of producing some amazing things; when armed with a keen conviction and respect for our planet's future, the same is true.
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NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade Inspires Volunteers
More on the inspiration created when Sierra Club Puerto Rico and Sierra Club NYC volunteers helped gather tons of recycling at Sunday's NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade.
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Architects propose adaptive reuse of Manhattan towers as popup hotels
A very clever palletized solution, for what is unfortunately a nonexistent problem.
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Quirky parking canopy made from 1,500 recycled plastic bottles
Colourful and unexpected, this installation uses hundreds of bottles to create a simple shelter.
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The milk crate gets a makeover by Combo Colab
They turn the classic box into a modular furniture system at the Design Mart at ICFF
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The Upcycle House goes beyond recycling
The architects claim it's " the first house build only from upcycled and environmentally sustainable materials". Is it?
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Stylish apartments built from stonecutting town's wasted material (Video)
Shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Awards, this elegant building makes good use of wasted stone generated from a town's large stonecutting industry.
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Six ways that music festivals can reduce their impact
From the substantial to the symbolic, music festivals around the world are finding ways to get a little greener.
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Oslo runs out of garbage, imports it from rest of the world
Oslo, the capital of Norway, has a strange garbage problem. Too much? No, not enough.
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10 tips to make every day Earth Day
We can do lists too; here are some of the simple things you can do that do not involve spending money and buying stuff.
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Don't malign the millenials; The kids are alright
An Earth Day survey is being used to attack millenials as green slackers and pat the boomers on the back. That's not what the data say.
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Happy Earth Day! Don't Recycle.
When it comes to electronics, recycling should be the final resort.
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Coffee pod greenwashing comes to America with Illy and Terracycle
It's a new low in phoney feel-good environmentalism as one-shot plastic pods are shipped around the country and downcycled.
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DIY: How to tell if a pallet is safe to re-use
Find how to decipher what's stamped on your pallet to see if it's safe or not for your project.
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Junkyard car gets resurrected as bike with a mission (video)
Thanks to a creative project underway in Portugal, one retired old clunker has been given a chance to make amends for its polluting past life -- by being resurrected as a bicycle.
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Teachbox puts pop-out puzzles for kids on disaster relief supply boxes
The cardboard box has always been the quintesential toy for kids. With this creative design, it also becomes a puzzle and teaching tool.
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Recycled Orchestra turns trash into music and despair into hope in Paraguayan slums
When a passionate teacher begins music classes in a barrio built on a landfill, the need for more instruments for his students led to an incredibly inspiring story - and one you can help write.
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Inspired TreeHugger reader builds stair out of milk crates
A reader looks at the design of a stair we showed last year and builds his own.
