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Leger Wanaselja’s McGee House is Made From Over 100 Salvaged Car Roofs

Leger Wanaselja’s McGee House is Made From Over 100 Salvaged Car Roofs

Recent data suggests that we send more than 14 million cars to the scrap yard each year, so it’s refreshing to see some of those abandoned automobiles put to good use in sustainable, eco-friendly style.

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MDC Interiors’ Glow Table Is a Cool Recycled Pallet Wood Creation

MDC Interiors’ Glow Table Is a Cool Recycled Pallet Wood Creation

MDC Interiors created this uber-cool Glow Table from recycled pallet wood, concrete, glass, pine, and steel. The concrete combined with a narrow pallet strip provides an industrial feel along with a warm

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LMNOQ’s Awesome Stormy Weather Lamps Are Made from Recycled Vegetable Cans

LMNOQ’s Awesome Stormy Weather Lamps Are Made from Recycled Vegetable Cans

Recently featured at Design Miami, the Stormy Weather lamp collection by LMNOQ is an experiment in frugality and sustainability. Made entirely from recycled tin vegetable cans collected from local

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Jan Lampei’s Jar Lamp is a Clever Recycled Chandelier

Jan Lampei’s Jar Lamp is a Clever Recycled Chandelier

Jan Lampei is a brilliant lamp made from recycled jars that was a finalist in the 2012 Green Furniture Awards. The light consists of an organic wooden structure fitted with sterilized jam jars attached

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Paul Coudamy’s ‘F-Light’ Ceiling Lamps Are Made from Recycled Airplane Panels

Paul Coudamy’s ‘F-Light’ Ceiling Lamps Are Made from Recycled Airplane Panels

If you can’t help but dream about jetting off to a tropical paradise when you’re in an office board meeting, then don’t look up at these overhanging F-Light Lamps by Paul Coudamy. Made

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Bill Gates Endorses Large Scale Geo-Engineering Projects

Bill Gates Endorses Large Scale Geo-Engineering Projects

Geo-engineering (the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the environment to combat anthropogenic changes in atmospheric chemistry) has long been touted as a way to counteract the catastrophic effects

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Montreal Artists Transform Post-Consumer Trash Into Beautiful Fashion

Montreal Artists Transform Post-Consumer Trash Into Beautiful Fashion

The Great White North may be steeped in nature that residents fight to preserve, but Canadians still generate a whopping 35 million tons of garbage every year. To draw attention to the excess waste

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Vaho Turns Old Advertising Banners Into Chic Recycled Bags

Vaho Turns Old Advertising Banners Into Chic Recycled Bags

Vaho Trashion gives old PVC advertising banners a second life by transforming them into quirky and colorful recycled bags. This stylish baggage company sources their products by collecting old banners

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Chile’s Rodrigo Alonso Creates Brilliant N+ew Lights from Recycled E-Waste

Chile’s Rodrigo Alonso Creates Brilliant N+ew Lights from Recycled E-Waste

A great sustainable feature that will bring a sparkle to any room, these N+ew Lights by Rodrigo Alonso have been created with a rotomolding technique employing e-waste. The Chilean designer gets his

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Mariclaro Transforms Car Upholstery, Exploded Air Bags Into Durable Carryalls

Mariclaro Transforms Car Upholstery, Exploded Air Bags Into Durable Carryalls

There are few things we love more than making use of what would have ended up in a landfill.  Mariclaro picks up the materials that they use for their ultra-durable carry-alls when they’ve already

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Man Arrested For Stealing a Glacier to Make “Designer” Ice Cubes

Man Arrested For Stealing a Glacier to Make “Designer” Ice Cubes

When many of us thirst for a chilled drink, we think back to our science lessons and recall that when water is placed in the freezer, it turns into ice. It seems a man in Chile forgot this and has been

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Rocker Lane Workshop Makes Contemporary Furniture from Reclaimed Floorboards

Rocker Lane Workshop Makes Contemporary Furniture from Reclaimed Floorboards

Rocker Lane Workshop is a new Irish company that produces hand crafted contemporary furniture made entirely from reclaimed maple floorboards. The workshop is the result of a collaboration between Seán

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Dutch Designer Dave Hakkens Creates Cool “Rubble” Floors From Recycled Materials

Dutch Designer Dave Hakkens Creates Cool “Rubble” Floors From Recycled Materials

Demolished houses usually leave behind lots of scrap materials that, with a little bit of clever thinking, can be turned into fantastic new building supplies. Inspired by Italian-style terrazzo floors

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Rodrigo Alonso Creates Precious Diamond-shaped Seats from 100% Recycled Plastic

Rodrigo Alonso Creates Precious Diamond-shaped Seats from 100% Recycled Plastic

Electronic devices, toys and even stadium seats have been given a second chance, taking the shape of these fantastic diamond seats dubbed ’100%’. Made with a low-energy rotomolding technique,

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UK Retailers Are Failing To Meet Their Food Waste Reduction Targets

UK Retailers Are Failing To Meet Their Food Waste Reduction Targets

All over the western world, food waste is a major concern. When so many are starving, sending thousands of tons of unwanted food to the landfills shouldn’t be an option. In the UK, British retailers

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High Flying F-Light Lamps Made From Recycled Airbus A300 Jets

High Flying F-Light Lamps Made From Recycled Airbus A300 Jets

We’ve seen old airplanes recycled into hotels, homes, and restaurants, but Paul Coudamy is taking things piece by piece with his incredible F-light. The designer has transformed the walls of an old

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Pawel Grunert’s SIE43 Chair is Made from a Cascade of Clear Blue Plastic Bottles

Pawel Grunert’s SIE43 Chair is Made from a Cascade of Clear Blue Plastic Bottles

This watery blue chair by Pawel Grunert is as refreshing as the liquid that was once contained in the plastic bottles it’s made from. Called the SIE43 Chair, the piece was constructed for the ‘Eco

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Craft Your Own Cardboard Hourglass Stool With These Easy DIY Instructions

Craft Your Own Cardboard Hourglass Stool With These Easy DIY Instructions

This quirky looking hourglass stool is a cool, solid design that you can make at home on your own! Spotted over at ‘Dangerously Fun‘, this DIY stool can be made simply by using old cardboard

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