3:11 pm in artists, crafts, designers, recycled, recycled consumer goods, san francisco by TreeHugger
Photos: Ben Venom
Like combining
heavy metal and vegan cuisine, the tough masculine image of this extreme musical genre may seem at odds with the folksy domesticity of quilting. Yet American artist
Ben Venom skillfully reconciliates these two opposites, using vintage heavy metal t-shirts as the raw material for his incredible quilts. Similar to traditional quilts which commemorate a family history by stitching together salvaged pieces of fabric, Venom's insane patchwork quilts offe...
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11:00 am in designers, furniture, israel, recycled, recycled consumer goods by TreeHugger
Photos: Yoav Avinoam
Sawdust is a multi-purpose "waste" material that can apparently be reused in many ways: turn it into
mulch, throw it by the handful into a
composting toilet, or transform it into furniture as Israeli designer
Yoav Avinoam has done with his down-to-earth but stylish "Shavings" furniture collection....
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3:33 pm in canada, designs, recycled, recycled building material, recycling, reuse by TreeHugger
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The Bottle Houses
Bottle buildings are what Bernard Rudolfsky called
Architecture without Architects, where ordinary people build extraordinary things. At Cap-Egmont in Prince Edward Island, where he was a lighthouse-keeper, Edouard Arsenault started collecting bottles in 1979. According to his daughter Rejeanne on the
Bottle Houses website:
...
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11:11 am in canada, designers, furniture, montreal, recycled, recycled consumer goods by TreeHugger
Photos: Marjolaine Poulin
Like America's Independence Day, Canada's
day commemorating its inception as a nation falls on July 1st every year. But in the province of Quebec, July 1st is also known as
La Fête du déménagement -- or "
Moving Day." Chaos reigns as it's the day when many rental leases expire and almost a quarter million people move en masse. It's also a field day for free stuff, due to the fact that not all belongings make it t...
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10:03 am in designers, furniture, germany, recycled, recycled consumer goods, recycled fashion by TreeHugger
Photos: Tobias Juretzek
From
farmhouse beams, to
refrigerators and
naval mines, furniture made from old -- and odd -- materials is nothing new, but what about furniture that's made from clothing? Defying expectations of what mere clothing can do,...
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11:22 am in architects, design competitions, recycled, recycled building material by TreeHugger
Images credit HplusF
After World War II,
Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House was seen as an alternative product for the factories and workers who were no longer building airplanes; it used much of the same materials and technologies.
Perhaps architects Craig Hodgetts and HsinMing Fung of
HplusF were thinking of Bucky when they developed this design for turning Hummers into housing. The architects are quoted in
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5:27 am in architects, architecture competitions, cool but ugly, Design & Architecture, recycled, recycled construction materials by TreeHugger
Photo: oda
Summer seems to be the time for architectural competitions: business is slow and gossip is rife. Hence they always seem to generate controversy and this year is no different.
The
RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist is out and the odds (2/1) are on the
Velodrome, created for the 2012 Olympics. However many are crying foul because no other small interesting bui...
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4:49 pm in botanical, composting, permaculture, recycled, united states by TreeHugger
Image credit: BryanMaltais
From this
DIY compost tumbler to
The Garden Rock Star's "how to" instructional on building a compost tumbler, there seems to be a strong appetite out there for videos about building these compost-speeding devices. This latest video is a well made, step-by-step guide on building your own—and it is done using entirely repurposed materials. It's just a shame the mus...
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11:06 am in apple, green building, materials, recycled by TreeHugger
Image credit Apple Canada
Three years ago Warren wrote a glorious rant,
Enough, Already. 'Recyclable' is Not Recycling, in which he complained about companies (like Apple) using the word "recyclable."
To my mind this is hypocrisy. It is "do as I say, not do as I do." Recycling is a complete loop. A joined circle. You are only recycling when you are buying recycled....Products touting 'recyclable' materials are eco-poseurs, unless those materials are also already recycled.
Warren made the case that Apple should be using recycled aluminum in thei...
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5:10 am in cool but ugly, Design & Architecture, designers, materials, prefab, recycled, recycled building materials, sustainablility, urban life by TreeHugger
Photo: B. Alter
The original
Festival of Britain in 1951 was a huge celebration of British culture, design, art, science and ingenuity. Now
its 60 year anniversary is being celebrated on the banks of the Thames in London.
But these are different times and one of the keynotes of the exhibits is a recognition of sustainability and environmentalism in the future. Hence the urban fox on patrol...
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