Tag: Reusability - Page 6
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Reusable Bag Overload? Donate to Those Who Can't Afford Them
We have them in the trunks of our cars, stashed in closets, and in cupboards: Reusable bags have become ubiquitous, so much so that
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Adaptive Reuse: Train Becomes Bunkhouse (Photos)
"One of the few times I thought I was in over my head," is how Dean Turner, Project Director of The Crossing Land Education Trust described the epic that was getting a dilapidated train carriage relocated
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Pilot Recycles Plastic Bottles Into Nice New Pens - But Will You Refill Them As Intended?
I don't normally write pen reviews, nor product reviews, nor really cover recycling--Lloyd is TreeHugger's resident recycling pundit. But when I got an email from Pilot Pen asking if I'd be willing to meet with them to talk
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Rolled Wool Felt Stool/Table + Pencil Cup Make For Cute DIY Projects
Argentine design firm Masekos has a fresh take on the rolled fabric tied with a belt idea: their stool is made with natural wool felt mixed with fabric scraps in the middle, which give the item some color. The piece, which also works
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Makedo. Kool Klever Kreation Kits For Kids
The Makedo connector set. TreeHugger's Roberta picked it as one of her 10 Best Green Toys at last years international toy fair. Then when readers selected it as their top Industrial Design or Design Idea for
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First Bottled Water Free University for Australia
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra announced on Friday 21 January that its campus will discontinue the sale of bottled water by World Water Day (22 March 201). The initiative started by students, assisted by
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Despite Huge Expense, London's Olympic Stadium Could Be Torn Down After 2012 Games
The London 2012 Olympics' claim to be the greenest ever is coming under threat almost daily. The plans for recycling and re-using the new buildings were impressive but a huge controversy has developed over
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Wooden Food Crates Wall In Mexico Shows Cool, Original Use For This Material
Discarded food crates, whether wooden or plastic, are an amazing material we've seen repurposed in pavillions, furniture, and mobile spaces. In a fresh approach, Mexican design and architecture studio Talco turned the things into
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ReChaco Program Repairs 20,000 Pairs of Sandals
If you're a regular reader of TreeHugger, you'll be familiar with our most prolific writer, Lloyd Alter, who has a bee in his bonnet about Recycling and takes ever opportunity to
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Film Review: To Buy, To Throw Away, To Buy; the Secret History of Planned Obsolescence
Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called "comprar, llençar, comprar", meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the
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Yurts Cause Controversy in France
The nomads in Outer Mongolia created yurts out of necessity, now many people in France are living in them as part of an alternate lifestyle decision.
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Ask Pablo: Metal vs. Plastic Cutlery
Variations of this question have been asked and
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When Is It OK to Knock Down Old Houses?
The largest collection of prefab houses in the UK is about to be demolished. Built by German and Italian prisoners of war in 1945, these small bungalows are a remnant of war-time years when housing was at a premium.
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Giant Pink Snails Invading Miami Beach Vandalized
Dozens of giant pink snails have overtaken Miami Beach this December as an environmental message about recycling by the REgeneration Art Project
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Chinese Environmental Group Builds Chopstick Tree, Chops It Down in Central Shanghai
With various "bring your own chopsticks" movements making little headway against the 45 billion pairs of disposable wooden utensils used each year in China alone, a clever Chinese environmental group has
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What Can This 300 Year Old French Fortress Tell Us About Green Architecture?
These days it seems that every new building is being billed as green: LEED certifications and new technologies that limit the environmental impact of lighting, water use, heating and air conditioning
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Not Made in China, Designer Guillem Ferran Proves a Point with Products Made from Used Pallets (Photos)
Here is a series of objects with the unusual label "not made in China". The Catalan designer Guillem Ferran, whose Where Memory Used To Sit chair collection, Distendido and La Pell leather project we wrote
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New Soap, Old Bottle. Detergents now come in a Heineken, Coke or Dr. Pepper Bottle
Researching innovative packaging solutions the other day, I stumbled on New Soap, Old Bottle. Similar to this green way of drinking (old bottles, fresh wine), Scott in the States sells new liquid soap packaged in old plastic bottles. That way, he saves
