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• Ballroom Luminoso: San Antonio Freeway Underpass Transformed Into a Beautiful Gathering Space

  
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  Ballroom Luminoso , a new public artwork by Joe O’Connell + Blessing Hancock , was recently installed in a freeway underpass in San Antonio, TX. Composed of six brilliantly lit, color-changing chandeliers, the sculptures are clad in recycled bike parts gleaned from bike co-ops and collectives across the country. ...
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• Supermarkets Transform Their Unsold Spoiled Food Into Green Energy

  
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  Two supermarkets are making lemonade out of lemons the green way—by converting their spoiled food into energy . Grocery chains Ralphs and Food 4 Less (both part of the Kroger Co.) have joined forces with FEED Resource Recovery to make use of the rotten and expired foods that their markets don’t sell. Any food ...
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• Nadia Belalia’s Steampunk Lamps Are Made From Repurposed Colanders

  
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  So far we’ve seen many examples of kitchen utensils being repurposed into customized, low-tech and eco-friendly objects, but these gorgeous colander light shades by New York-based designer Nadia Belalia bring a special steampunk sensibility. Inspired by the “abundance and rawness” of industrial material in ...
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• Kids Can Transform Boxes into People, Pets, Robots, Vehicles & More Using Box Props by Makedo

  
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• Designtree’s Gorgeous Frankie Lamps are Made with 100% Recycled PET and FSC-Certified Beech

  
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  Read the rest of Designtree’s Gorgeous Frankie Lamps are Made with 100% Recycled PET and FSC-Certified Beech Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: designtree , FSC certified timber , FSC-certified wood designs , green designers from New Zealand , green interiors , green lighting , ...
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• The reCYCLER Upcycles Old Bikes into Funky Chairs

  
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  Read the rest of The reCYCLER Upcycles Old Bikes into Funky Chairs Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Canadian green designers , eco design , green design , ICFF , International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York , reclaimed furniture design , Reclaimed Materials , sustainable ...
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• Dirk Vander Kooij Uses Waste Plastic from His 3D-Printed Chubby Chairs to Make Colorful Coat Hangers

  
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• Colin Selig’s Dalí-Esque Sofas Are Made from Recycled Propane Tanks

  
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• Tat Chao’s Gorgeous Bipolar LED Lamps Are Made From Recycled Wine Glasses

  
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  Canadian designer Tat Chao gives old, damaged and unwanted wine glasses a new life as energy-efficient LED lamps! Chao detaches the bases from wine glasses and champagne flutes and joins them to create his beautiful Bipolar Lamps , which look like floating icicles. Read the rest of Tat Chao’s ...
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• The Green 3D Printing Materials We’ve Been Waiting For

  
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  There’s no denying that 3D printing has moved beyond the laboratory and into the mainstream. We’ve seen 3D printed body parts , electronics , and toys. Although the technology has quickly become quite sophisticated, the materials used in 3D printers have been slow to catch up. Though the idea of print-you-own ...
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• Bicycle Chains Upcycled Into Chandeliers

  
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  A few years back, a multidisciplinary artist had a particular inspiration for integrating unusually recycled materials with her designs. Carolina Fontoura Alzaga created spectacular chandeliers from old bicycle chains, rims and other parts for an artistic undertaking called the Connect Series . The materials ...
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• Glad’s Brilliant Trash Bag Tent Could Solve the Waste Problem at Music Festivals

  
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  California-based company Glad may specialize in dustbin liners and food storage containers, but they recently unveiled a brilliant one-person trash bag tent for camping , music festivals and other outdoor events. The concept was launched at the SXSW 2013 music festival in Austin, Texas, where tents were distributed ...
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• Superman at the Cartoon Art Museum, new work at Creativity Explored

  
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    Colored Circles by Beth Zmerzlika  Creativity Explored is one of my favorite art spaces in the Bay Area. A team of dedicated teachers and guides work with the disabled to help them create wonderful art. Through that art, these "artists with disabilities" are able to connect with the wider world. "Space," ...
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• Pet Bed

  
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  This pet bed is made of soft, warm, plush Eco-Fleece and filled with 100% premium recycled hypo-allergenic poly fiber. The Eco-Fleece and fiber is made from recycling soda bottles which would normally be clogging up landfills. The shell can be zipped off for machine washing. The recycled poly fiber insert can be ...
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• Iran’s Apartment No. 1 Built Entirely from Recycled Stone

  
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  Iranian city Mahallat is home to a thriving stone cutting industry. Even though the industry contributes nearly half of the city’s economy, it also generates a lot of waste stone from the cutting process. Tehran’s Architecture by Collective Terrain thus set out to put the so-called waste stone to use by ...
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• “Biggest Loser” Coach Builds a Recycled Materials Green Gym in Israel

  
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  When “Biggest Loser” coach Orly Hoffman Bar approached Toledo-Lifschitz Architecture & Design with an idea to convert a vacant space north of Tel Aviv into a sweet new gym, she offered two major constraints: time and money. Another firm might have walked away, but Ariel Lifschitz and his partner used the ...
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• Pink Intruder Unveils Gorgeous Pixelated Cardboard Pavilion in Valencia, Spain

  
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• Foodscapes: Contemporary Compostable Tableware Made from Recycled Food Waste

  
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  Next time you throw a dinner party at home you can wow your guests even if your cooking isn’t amazing. Designed by Italian studio  Whomade  and  Michela Milani , ‘Foodscapes’ is a contemporary tableware collection that is compostable , free from artificial agents and made entirely from recycled food waste. ...
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• The Carma Project Makes a New Bike From Old Car Parts

  
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  Two Lisbon-based entrepreneurs have devised a way to build a new bike from discarded car parts – and they’re planning to ride it the same number of miles that the original vehicle drove to compensate for its air-polluting past. The initiative is called the Carma Project , and it was organized by Leo Burnett ...
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• No more motes: 3D-printing the return of self-provisioning

  
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  There is lot of interest--and a lot of hand-wringing angst--over the reality of 3D-printed guns . As the above article notes, anyone with access to a decent 3D printer can now basically make their own gun by using these blueprints . For those unfamiliar with the technology, 3D printing allows the manufacturing of ...
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