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Upcycled Artwork at WomansDay.com - Eco-Friendly Works of Art (www.womansday.com)Upcycling embraces the idea of making something new out of waste materials. (The term was coined by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, authors of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.
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Blue Box subsidies in North Bay to continue - (www.thesudburystar.com)The city will continue to subsidize the cost of Blue Box purchases for residents to ensure it receives grant money.
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Recycle This - Creative ideas for reusing and recycling random stuff (www.recyclethis.co.uk)This site started from a bowl of pistachio nut shells.After we gorged ourselves on their lovely innards, they, the shells, just sat there, looking useful and versatile – but we no idea what we could possibly do with them
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Extremi-Tree | xmas tees from recycled pop cans (www.offbeatearth.com)Why waste a perfectly good tree or buy an artificial one for Christmas? You can Dew it yourself!
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t r u t h o u t | US Security Company Offers to Perform "High Threat Terminations" and to Confront "Worker Unrest" in Haiti (www.truthout.org)The company boasts that it has run “Thousands of successful missions in Iraq & Afghanistan.” As for its personnel, “Each and every member of our team is a former Law Enforcement Officer or former Military service member,” the site claims.
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New York - Closing Pipeline to Needy, City Shreds Clothes (www.nytimes.com)New York City officials destroyed tons of new, unworn clothing and footwear last year that had been seized in raids on counterfeit label operations, abandoning a practice of giving knockoff garments to groups that help the needy.
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Bizarre House Made from Bottles | Interior Designs And Home Ideas (www.home-designing.com). I mean, sure we have featured some rather odd houses in the past and we even have looked at innovative ways to reuse objects but here is something that establishes a connect between two: A house that uses bottles as a building material!
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ReadySetRecycle.com - Greening the Entertainment Industry (readysetrecycle.com)We are entertainment industry professionals who are appalled to see thousands of tons of scenery, props and costumes ending up in landfill every year.So… we’ve created ReadySetRecycle.com a new website where industry professionals can list such items for sale (or giveaway).
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Projects - Yuken Teruya Studio (www.yukenteruyastudio.com)Pizza Boxes, a McDonald's bag, Flags, Desserts and Toilet Paper rolls... when these items become artworks, they also easily become political, maybe because they are taken from daily life.
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oobject » great diy lighting ideas (www.oobject.com)Here is a collection of lamps, lights and chandeliers made from everything from car parts, umbrellas, bicycles, tableware, old globes, tape measures and speaker parts.
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Mattawa in talks for compost plant (www.nugget.ca)A recycling and waste diversion company is eyeing Mattawa as the site of a new composting plant.Emterra Group is in talks with the town to establish a plant adjacent to the municipal landfill site that would convert organic waste into soil.
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Stores Helping Consumers Recycle (www.gogreenstreet.com)A growing number of stores across the US and Canada are helping consumers make recycling easier buy offering in store recycling programs
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Tires recycled into playground mulch (www.gogreenstreet.com)RubbeRecycle uses advanced technology to turn tires into new products like playground surfaces, rubber curbing and landscaping mulch,
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The Environmental Cost of a Free Canvas Bag (www.utne.com)Most were given to me as promotional materials for design studios, start-ups, and boutique shops; more than one came from an environmental organization; one even commemorates a friend’s wedding. A community group recently delivered a reusable bag to every house in my neighborhood to promote local holiday shopping.
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One Love Vintage Clothing -Recycled Fashion (www.onelovevintage.ca)Welcome to Sudbury’s only source for everything vintage. Our hand picked selection is constantly changing with new items arriving every week.
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Efficient Home Improvement: Re-Using Materials Gets Easier (www.metaefficient.com)For “D.I.Y.”ers, using recycled construction products is a great way to reduce raw material consumption and lessen stress on landfills. But for retailers, the “Re I. Y.” trend (Re-use It Yourself) is taking the idea a step further, giving unused building products a new lease on life
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Affordable Housing from Recyled Materials (www.worldchanging.com)Visionary Dan Philips has been running his construction company Phoenix Commotion for 12 years with a dual purpose: creating beautifully unique affordable housing, and making use of recycled materials
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Green Home - LIME (www.lime.com)Green commercial portal with info on greening your home
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York Region Community Environmental Centres (www.york.ca)Community Environmental Centres are waste management facilities that provide residents with a convenient location where they can drop off a variety of materials including reusable goods, recyclables and building materials. CECs provide residents with another option to increase their reuse and recycling efforts in York Region.
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Twelve amazing shipping container houses (green.yahoo.com)While a number of resourceful people have converted shipping containers into make-shift shelters at the margin of society for years, architects and green designers are also increasingly turning to the strong, cheap boxes as source building blocks.
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$400,000 home for $175,000 Using Old shipping containers (ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com)A house made out of shipping containers is probably not the first thing that springs to mind when one thinks of home, sweet home.But a handful of Canadian entrepreneurs are hoping the eco-friendly construction trend becomes the norm.
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Canstruction (www.canstruction.org)Teams of architects, engineers, and students mentored by these professionals, compete to design and build giant structures made entirely from full cans of food. It takes 8-12 weeks and thousands of cans of food to create a structuure.
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Greater Sudbury Public Library (GSPL) (www.sudbury.library.on.ca)Creating altered books is something anyone can do because there are no rules and your only limitation is your own imagination. Transform discarded books into art, a challenge to create something new from books that are no longer ysed. You can use books you have at home, from used book stores or book sales at the library. A selection of free books will be available at the Main Public Library.
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Cassette Tape Closet by Patrick Schuur (cubeme.com)That’s a nice way of recycling old tapes that would probably otherwise be thrown in the trash…This great closet is built by Dutch designer
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InDisposed: Talking Trash (about design) (mocoloco.com)Designers were asked to create objects that examined the themes of waste and wastefulness in their use and production.Highlights of the show included Atema Architecture's Auto-Cannibalistic Table, Redstr/Collective VS Kao's CAMPstyle Lounge Chair, Takeshi Miyakawa's Furniture To Go and the winners of Mio's Loop Open Source Design Competition.
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