I think old tires should reused as furniture. Here’s an idea I sketched that I’m hoping to actually do soon. Has anyone else had experience with this? I know it’s not an original idea, but it seems like it could be a great way to cut down on waste and be cool at the same time. Imagine if everybody did this.

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RECYCLE YOUR BORING TWEETS

GetTRASHED.org and McKinney have teamed up to save the planet and cyberspace one tweet at a time.

Recycle all the boring tweets polluting your Twitter feed with Re:cycled Tweets. Take your friends’ cyber-garbage and turn it into cyber-gold. And that’s not just clever wordplay: for every tweet you recycle, McKinney will donate a penny to getTrashed.org. Think about it. You recycle your followers’ boring tweets, get all of your friends to recycle their…

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Artist Yuken Teruya has managed to turn the grease-stained brown paper bags from McDonalds into beautiful, delicate paper forests.

In the Notice-Forest series, Teruya cuts one side of a paper bag in a tree shape. The cut-out tree is folded down so that it appears to be part of a diorama to onlookers who look inside the bag.Teruya reclaims paper bags back into what they once were–trees.

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Just heard about a special offer right now at Barneys Co-op. If you bring in an old pair of denim jeans, you get 20% off a new pair. The offer is through the end of August, and is a nice way to clean your closet and add to it at the same time.

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Hi,Please check out "Running on Shoes", Final segment to the Planet Progress - Shoes Video Newsletter series.  "Running on Shoes" introduces a new partnership between Nike and LA84 Foundation.  Together they will provide 84 athletic and playground surfaces to improve the quality of youth sports in Los..
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On January 1st, 2008, two friends set out on a cross country bicycle ride through the Southern Tier of the United States.  Their goals were simple make it to Key West, Florida and document environmental perspective in the regions they visited. In a world of Environmental change where is our country..
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Are you’re sitting around on this last Sunday of our wonderfully long holiday season and looking for a diversion from the post-New Years clean up and pre-work mental prep you ought to be doing?

Well, Design Within Reach is now accepting entries for their annual Champagne Chair Contest. The challenge is to turn the remnants of your New Years drinking (cork, wire, and labels from up to two Champagne bottles) into a cool looking miniature chair.…

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I think old tires should reused as furniture. Here’s an idea I sketched that I’m hoping to actually do soon. Has anyone else had experience with this? I know it’s not an original idea, but it seems like it could be a great way to cut down on waste and be cool at the same time. Imagine if everybody did this.

Read & Discuss

RECYCLE YOUR BORING TWEETS

GetTRASHED.org and McKinney have teamed up to save the planet and cyberspace one tweet at a time.

Recycle all the boring tweets polluting your Twitter feed with Re:cycled Tweets. Take your friends’ cyber-garbage and turn it into cyber-gold. And that’s not just clever wordplay: for every tweet you recycle, McKinney will donate a penny to getTrashed.org. Think about it. You recycle your followers’ boring tweets, get all of your friends to recycle their…

Read & Discuss

Artist Yuken Teruya has managed to turn the grease-stained brown paper bags from McDonalds into beautiful, delicate paper forests.

In the Notice-Forest series, Teruya cuts one side of a paper bag in a tree shape. The cut-out tree is folded down so that it appears to be part of a diorama to onlookers who look inside the bag.Teruya reclaims paper bags back into what they once were–trees.

Read & Discuss

Just heard about a special offer right now at Barneys Co-op. If you bring in an old pair of denim jeans, you get 20% off a new pair. The offer is through the end of August, and is a nice way to clean your closet and add to it at the same time.

Read & Discuss

Hi,Please check out "Running on Shoes", Final segment to the Planet Progress - Shoes Video Newsletter series.  "Running on Shoes" introduces a new partnership between Nike and LA84 Foundation.  Together they will provide 84 athletic and playground surfaces to improve the quality of youth sports in Los..
Read & Discuss

On January 1st, 2008, two friends set out on a cross country bicycle ride through the Southern Tier of the United States.  Their goals were simple make it to Key West, Florida and document environmental perspective in the regions they visited. In a world of Environmental change where is our country..
Read & Discuss

Are you’re sitting around on this last Sunday of our wonderfully long holiday season and looking for a diversion from the post-New Years clean up and pre-work mental prep you ought to be doing?

Well, Design Within Reach is now accepting entries for their annual Champagne Chair Contest. The challenge is to turn the remnants of your New Years drinking (cork, wire, and labels from up to two Champagne bottles) into a cool looking miniature chair.…

Read & Discuss