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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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Sudbury Green carts will divert waste from landfills (www.northernlife.ca)Think green. More specifically, green carts. Sudbury green carts.The City of Greater Sudbury will distribute green carts to households between July and September in an effort to cut down the amount of garbage hitting landfills.
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Habitat ReStores -- Habitat for Humanity Int'l (www.habitat.org)Habitat ReStores are retail outlets where quality, used and surplus building materials are sold at a fraction of normal prices.
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WM - Waste Management (www.thinkgreen.com)A look at the Green Web Page for WM - the leading provider of comprehensive waste
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Northern Computer Refurbishing Depot (NCRD) (www.nisa.on.ca)Working computers refurbished and made available to residence who cannot afford a new computer system. This diverts working PIII computers and up away from the landfill site and put back into use for learning, communication, and searching for information. Donations also accepted for those who are looking to donate a working computer. Please visit www.nisa.on.ca for more information.photo by: markstosberg
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Taking It to the Trees (www.dwell.com)With windows recycled from a Toronto skyscraper, Barerock is both rustic cabin and high-tech, eco-friendly retreat.
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Students divert batteries from landfill (www.northernlife.ca)Grade 9 Sudbury Secondary School student Joseph Frizell and Grade 12 student Sarah Hirschfeld, who are part of the Roots and Shoots club, are helping to collect batteries from students.
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Sudbury ranks 68th in provincial recycling rates (www.thesudburystar.com)In Sudbury, the average person was responsible for about 484 kilograms of waste in 2007, ranking the city 116th out of 206 municipalities in waste generation.
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Stop recycling, start repairing! (www.platform21.nl)Platform 21 a Dutch Design Collective who have published a Repair Manifesto
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A special report on waste: Down in the dumps (www.economist.com)THERE are really only three things you can do with waste: bury it, burn it or recycle it.
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Ethical Man blog (www.bbc.co.uk)My family and I spent a year trying to cut our carbon emissions. Now I'm back with a bigger challenge - to save the world! I'm travelling across America looking at how we can stop catastrophic global warming.
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Zero Garbage for 3 Months (zerogarbabe.blogspot.com)We recently decided to try to reduce out stamp even more, we are challenging ourselves to a 3 month zero garbage challenge. Its going to be difficult, but I know we can do it.
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National plan proposes to make companies pay for recycling, packaging (ca.news.yahoo.com)It's envisioned that the plan, within six years of being approved, would make businesses responsible for handling the recovery of packaging, printed materials, compact fluorescent light bulbs, electronics and electrical products, household hazardous and special wastes, and automotive products. photo by: penmachine
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