designCorrugated Art: Incredible Upcycled Cardboard Sculptures
Environmental art can take many forms. One of the most striking is when an artist takes a mass-produced material…
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designrecyclingDon’t Panic: Last-Minute Green Holiday Gift Ideas
(image via: wockerjabby) If you’ve waited a bit too long to take care of the people on your holiday gift list,…
environment18 Clever Christmas Trees Created With Recycled Materials
Forward thinkers were some of the first environmentalists. Nowadays, most of us recycle. As always, one person’s…
environmentTrashy Times: Where Do Recycled Gadgets Really Go?
Do you know what really happens to your electronics after you’re done with them? If you send them to a recycling…
environmentReBurbia: Designers Take on Greening the American Suburb
In the past few years, we’ve seen some interesting shifts take place between urban and suburban dwellers. Gas…
artSuck It! 8 Brilliant Examples of Plastic Drinking Straw Art
Plastic drinking straws are one of the hallmarks of our disposable society. The little tubes are manufactured to…
designMessage in a Bottle: A Village Made of Recycled Bottles
You can always count on your grandma to make wonderful crafty things, but Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village in…
greenSqueaky-Green: Two Waste-free Ways To Wash Up
Trying to limit the environmental impact of your kitchen? No matter how many food scraps you compost or…
artRecycled Mutants: The Weird, Wild Tire Art of Ji Yong Ho
Image via: Gana Art Gallery. Think that there’s nothing uglier than an evil-smelling, dust-streaked pile of old…
designUpcycled Art: Paper Bags Return to Their (Tree) Roots
Paper bags are everywhere, and most of the time they end up either in the landfill or littering the landscape. But…
recyclingDesign Gets Tired: 6 Stylish Ways to Recycle Rubber
(Image via: maxblack) Tire recycling is on a roll. Only a few decades ago, the world had little or no idea what to…
recyclingTeen Scientist Finds Secret to Composting Plastic
Scientists have said for years that it takes thousands of years for plastic to decompose – so how did a…
environment10 Best Summer Music Festivals to Get Your Eco On
For many, Summer means the opportunity to attend any one of thousands of music festivals held across the globe.…
natureGarbage to Green: 10 Landfills Turned into Nature Preserves
Landfills don't have to remain steaming heaps of smelly rubbish. Take these ten former trash heaps that are now…
recycling22 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Compost
Composting is a way of utilizing microorganisms to break down and decompose organic matter. The unique benefits…
design15 Awesome Ways to Reuse Shipping Containers
Steel shipping containers outlive their usefulness as cargo carriers within 5 years, and they used to sit…
environmentObject Graveyards: The Afterlife of Everyday Things
The world is rife with ‘stuff’, and the simple fact is we’re producing new homes, vehicles, gadgets, gizmos…
designIlluminating Reuse: 15 Recycled Lights and Lamps
Egg cartons, Legos, ballpoint pens, blenders and plastic spoons: these are just a few of the items that have been…
