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Business
Upcycling's Upshot: How Urban Mushroom Farmers Turned Scavenging into a Business
“Our whole company is literally built on trash.”
Business
ReMakes: Old Billboards, Reborn
Billboards have a short lifespan and throwing them away creates a lot of waste. A company called ReMakes has found a smart way to reuse them.
Design
Winner Announced: Picture Something Repurposed
In February, we asked you, the GOOD community, to send us photos of something repurposed. See the winning picture inside.
Design
Submissions: Take a Picture of Something Repurposed
A collaborative Picture Show created by none other than you, the GOOD community, about something repurposed.
Design
Project: Take a Picture of Something Repurposed
Help us create a crowdsourced Picture Show by sending us an image of something repurposed.
Design
Nike Print Pack: Shoes Made from Old Magazines
Maybe there's life for print publications after all. Or at least an afterlife. Nike has released a set of shoes made from old glossies.
News
How To: Start a Creative Reuse Revolution in Your Community in 5 Steps
Lisa Hernandez opened the Long Beach Center for Creative Reuse with one simple guiding principal: one man's trash is another's treasure.
Environment
GOOD Design Daily: How to Turn Empty Beer Cans into a Roof
Check out Bill Robb's step-by-step tutorial on how to repurpose aluminum cans as a roof for a chicken coop-upcycling at its best.
Design
Turning Disposable Nespresso Capsules into Batteries
"Nespresso Battery" places disposed espresso capsules, coffee grounds, salt water, and copper strips in little pots-and uses them to power clocks.
Culture
Image of the Day: Indra's Cloud, a Water Bottle Raft by Anne Percoco
Anne Percoco's water bottle raft, "Indra's Cloud," appears in the show Convergence at Lumenhouse in Brooklyn, New York.
Culture
Image of the Day: House of Contamination
House of Contamination turns all varieties of trash into a walkable indoor city.
Business
Wal-Mart Recycling Program Pays Cash for Trash
Wal-Mart already does some other recycling collection, but this is the only way I know of to get paid for used yogurt containers.
Design
Upcycled Houses Built from Old Shipping Containers, Plastic Bottles, and Trash
Around the world, people are junk into home-sweet-home. From old shipping containers to plastic bottles, these are some truly innovative upcycles.
Environment
Eight Eco-friendly Halloween Costumes (and a Tip for Cheaters)
Tips for trick or treaters who don't want to be wasteful (or spend money) on a crappy wear-once Halloween costume. Plus: Tell us yours.
Design
Turn Your Vuvuzela into a Record Player (or Some Other Useful Thing)
The WoZela design competition wants to "make this object of unity an object of utility by finding ways to reuse it." The submissions are brilliant.
Business
Hello Rewind: Upcycle a T-shirt to Help Survivors of Sex Trafficking
Do you have an old T-shirt that you don't wear very much but don't want to give away? Do you hate sex trafficking? Have we got the website for you.
Environment
Design Students Find Surprising New Use for Outdated Speedos
When swimming competitions updated their regulations for swimwear this year, the Speedo LZR racer swimsuit was rendered obsolete as a sellable...
The Community Board
Pile of Empty Beer Cartons Evolves into Open Air Library
I would love to see a community library like this in Los Angeles! "What began as an assemblage of 1,000 empty beer cartons pulled together...
