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The Five Personalities of Innovators: Which One Are You? Fabrication Cafe Offers Lattes And Laser Cutting [Pics] 暖岛. Brandnü » Products. "Mobile Gardening," the Hottest New Trend? 6 Ways to Mash-Up Bikes and Gardens. FriendOfHumanity/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Last year I participated in the installation of the Mobile Garden, a garden installed on a CTA train by Joe Baldwin of NoisiVelvet, which TreeHugger Jaymi wrote about here. Since then my interest in “mobile gardening” has led me to research ways people are creating mobile gardens of their own. Bicycle gardening is perhaps the most ingenious examples of mobile gardening I‘ve come across. The examples are easy to adapt and modify to create your own bicycle gardens.

These hobbies, nay, lifestyles dovetail nicely as you will see from the examples below. 1. Instructables member, FriendOfHumanity, has a tutorial on how to create your own bike planter out of scrap wood, allowing you to take your herb garden for a spin. The blogger at A Year From Scratch created a bike planter out of a wire basket and some cheesecloth. 2. . © Meg 1. You can see more photos of Meg’s bike gardens here and here. 3. . © Colleen Jordan 4. Alastair Smith/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 5. 6. . © Jonathan Maus. Zero Waste to Landfill. The Works In A Drawer: Dining Table and Seating Pull Out Of Kitchen. Swim Down Through a Sea of Trash With Dramatic, Eerily Beautiful Photos by Mandy Barker. © Mandy BarkerSOUP: Bird's Nest. Ingredients: discarded fishing lines that have formed nest-like balls due to tidal and oceanic movement. Additives: other debris collected in its path. What would it be like to swim down through the estimated 100 million tons of trash swirling around in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

Mandy Barker's photographs bring viewers probably as close as they'd ever want to come to finding out. Looking at the images in the U.K. © Mandy BarkerSOUP: Refused. "I have always been interested in collecting natural objects from the beach but began to notice that there was more and more man-made materials debris amongst them," Barker told TreeHugger in an email this week. Inspired By Photographer Chris JordanThe visually striking, even beautiful "SOUP" photographs were inspired, Barker says, by TreeHugger favorite Chris Jordan, who famously photographed the extensive collection of plastic pieces found inside albatross chicks after they died.

Home. Mechanical, physical and environmental properties of wood | Matbase - Material Properties Database. Start Making. Bus Life. Good News Bus - 1995 Genesis International DT-466 School Bus Conversion Project into a Motor Home. Scholten & Baijings. Scholten & Baijings I have fallen in love with Scholten & Baijings textiles featuring fantastic plaids by by Thomas Eyck. They’re available for purchase at Gessato . I really enjoy the presentation of their blankets, draped over pieces of modern furniture.

A Case For Recycled Tire Bags & Chic New Models By Cyclus. Photos: Cyclus-col.com If you've been around the green scene for some time, you may feel some ideas get a little tired over time. That could have been the case for bags from recycled tires, but ever since I got one (not from this brand, of course) I've felt quite in love with it: it doesn't need any cleaning and looks exactly the same every time, resembles leather nicely (which as a vegetarian I don't use or buy) but you can see it's something else, and the rubber is super durable. At the final disposal it gets a little tricky, but I really don't see that coming for a long time, and when I need to get rid of it I suppose it can be recycled into something like flooring as regular tires.

For all of these reasons, I was happy to see Colombian brand Cyclus' new models, which are from recycled tires but also very chic. Very different from Mexican designer Mecha's or Argentine brand Neumatica's, Cyclus has several collections, including one for girls night out and another of bike accessories. Home - BalkanTango - Recycled Bicycle Inner Tube Bags, Purses and More. Contributors c/o Quarterly Co.™ Studio Schneemann. A Flip Flop Story It are the Flip Flops’ telling the story. They are discoloured, worn, torn, patched up and eventually tossed away or lost.

After a long trip through Asia or Africa they end up in sewers and in the ocean. Then they are washed up on the shores of Eastern Africa. Modern and Unusual Lamps Made From Plastic Bottles. © Sarah Turner Eco artist Sarah Turner creates unique lamps from locally collected waste, including plastic bottles. She transforms trash into some rather amazing designs for interior decoration. She sent us a heads up on her work, and we agree that it's something you don't want to miss. According to her site, Sarah collects all the bottles used in her products from cafes and households.

"Each bottle is then cleaned and sandblasted to give the opaque look then hand cut and sculpted into decorative forms. The waste bottles are totally transformed and it’s almost impossible to tell what they originated from. The lamps are available on Etsy and a handful of select shops. Upcycled Farm Steel and Wood Furniture That Thinks Cradle-to-Cradle. Herso/via The patchwork aesthetic of reclaimed wood furniture has become something of an eco-cliché. Nevertheless, these charmingly elegant tables by Dutch company Herso are a cut above its peers, thanks to their unusual elliptical forms and quaint materials (apparently the steel used in some of the tables is sourced from old pig enclosures).

In addition to their graceful lines, Herso's tables all use natural collagen-based glues, and VOC-free linseed oil for topcoats and sealant. But using non-toxic and reclaimed materials is not of Herso's main goal. Besides careful consideration of what goes into each table, in faithful adherence with the "crade-to-cradle" design philosophy (not the questionable "crade-to-cradle" certification mind you), Herso ensures that all byproducts from the furniture-making process is re-used, whether as compost, premium cat litter, industrial alcohol or biofuel, thus closing the loop on a "no-waste" lifecycle of all inputs and outputs.

CORA. iPhone App Connects Your Trash Directly to Artists and Upcyclers. © Team Cora We all have heard of groups, websites and apps that help people swap their stuff or give their old items to folks who want them. They're all great ways to keep things out of landfill and reduce how much we consume. But Team CORA wants to go one step more and connect you with people who need your old junk as raw material for new projects, literally transforming your trash into treasure. © Team CORA "We believe that if there's something you need, chances are it's already hidden in your stuff, or your neighbor has it.

Our easy-to-use mobile app will be the hub that renews our stuff and our connections to each other... Type in any item you're done with, and choose its next life. The goal is to keep trash out of watersheds, off beaches, and out of the ocean, and that's a goal we can support. From a Recycled Paper Vase to Toy Blocks: The Best Green Products at the New York Gift Fair. © by eebo -- Eco-Choice winner "Life on Earth" building blocks by eeboo. “Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love,” said George Bernard Shaw. Perhaps we can achieve it all with recycled paper, if winners at the recent gift show are any indication.

A paper vase, eco-building blocks and reused pulltab apparel took the prizes at the 5th semi-annual Eco-Choice Awards at the New York International Gift Fair. Partnered with Green America, the winners were selected from 250 green wares featured in the “SustainAbility: Design for a Better World” exhibit at the show. The winter expo has a total of 2,800 exhibitors representing 85 countries, with a wide variety of homewares, artisan crafts, garden goods, gourmet foods, and sustainable products. The winners fell into three categories: 1. Life on Earth Tot Towers by Eeboo: A new addition to this New York company’s line of children’s toys and games is a set of earth-friendly building blocks.