Tag: Upcycling - Page 5
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Green Shopping In Tel Aviv
One of my favorite things to do when I travel to new cities is check out their green shopping scenes. I was recently in the Tel Aviv/Jaffa region of Israel and had a few hours to visit the area shops and outdoor
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Students Create An Upcycling Blog, and Need Your Ideas
At TreeHugger, we've written about tons of examples of great upcycling, from candy wrappers that become wallets to broken zippers reincarnated as funky jewelry. Now, two Austrian students who are
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Pictory Showcases The Beauty of Making Things By Hand
We enjoy great photography, and we really, really enjoy the DIY, made-by-hand culture that so often encompasses green values like reuse, repair, and longevity in goods. That's why the latest Pictory showcase is a must-see. Featuring beautiful images
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Earth Day is Passe...Or is It?
Oh lord, here we are again. Earth Day is nearly here. The roar of the trumped up press releases and tenuous links to sustainability is deafening! What started out as an impassioned celebration/day of action for
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Is Your Recycling Hurting the Planet?
When is recycling not a good idea? When is it causing more harm then other choices you could make? When you have another option such as green icon Method's refill packs, that are much lighter, and use less packaging than buying
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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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10 Essential Tools to ReMake Trash Into Treasure
Have you ever used an empty glass jar as a drinking glass or turned an old tin
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PET Bottles Recycled Into Bright Lamps, Table Legs, Flower Pots In Chile
Motivated by a workshop at the Chilean Catholic University during her studies, designer Sofia Montero developed ADN PET: a line of products from tops and bottoms of recovered PET bottles.
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Barcelona Gives Away 'Olipots' To Promote Kitchen Oil Recycling
The mediterranean cuisine is known to be one of the healthiest, and yet, Spaniards like their fried tapas or churros every now and then. In 2010 the recycling centers, called 'Green Points', collected 195.136 liters of used
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Is Cash the Only Way to Motivate Responsible Behavior?
2010 may have been a rocky year in many ways for a lot of us out there, but something amazing happened in the last three months of the year: Public schools in New
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5,000 Wine Bottles Recycled Into Acoustics-Improving Ceiling At Buenos Aires Restaurant
When I posted the story about La Dorita restaurant and its dozens of recycled-wine-bottles-lamps, a reader suggested that I took a look at another venue from the city which had a wine-bottle ceiling.
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For Star Wars Fans, Recycled Computer Parts Turned Into AT-AT Imperial Walker
Creative craftster Sage Werbock has come up with a clever idea for recycling old computer
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Every Lamp In Buenos Aires Restaurant Made With Recycled Wine Bottles (Photos)
Although we've seen wine bottles reused in lamps bases, other forms of lightning and even in gardens, La Dorita restaurant chain in Buenos Aires went all the way with them and its restaurants offer an impressive spectacle:
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The T-shirt Chair by Maria Westerberg Wins the 2011 Green Furniture Award in Sweden (Photos)
Swedish designer Maria Westerberg's T-shirt Chair won this year's Green Furniture Award. According to the jury, "the chair weaves together a meaningful story using worn textiles. This up-scaling of the classical
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Upcycle Leftover Valentine's Day Candy Wrappers and Donate to Charity at the Same Time
Photo credit: Terracycle Valentine's Day is a wonderful excuse for loving partners, friends, parents, kids and teachers to show they care. And like jelly to peanut butter, candy is an integral part of that. But afterwords, there's a little problem:
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US Soldier Uses Recycled Materials to Make Super Cool Action Figures
This is the coolest thing I've seen in awhile. Private First Class Rupert Valero is currently stationed at Khandahar, Afghanistan, and to fill his spare time, he builds toys out of recycled materials. They capture a wonderful mix of
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Emiliano Godoy Teams Up with Ecoist for Cool Candy Wrapper Chair (Photos)
A great discovery over at designboom this week is a new design from Emiliano Godoy, one of our favourite thought provoking designers. Emiliano, he of the biodegradable golf tee and the Global Warming Rug, has teamed up with
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Make Designer Vases from Styrofoam Cups (Video)
Most of us try to avoid Styrofoam cups like the plague, but sometimes you just can't get away from them. And figuring out what to do with them when you're done is problematic since many recyclers don't accept Styrofoam
