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Doug Gunzelmann
Plastic Bottle Facts Make You Think Before You Drink
Hopefully if you’re at this site and reading this you are well aware of the alternatives to using disposable bottles and recycle the ones you do. The advent of bottled water sent our already wasteful consumer culture into pollution overdrive and it’s a tremendous task to put the brakes on the momentum of this waste. [...]
Park(ing) Day 2008: If You Build It You Can Park It
Mark your calendars, September 19th 2008, a mobile public green space could be rollin’ through your hood. The Park(ing) Day is a project aimed at redefining urban space and brining awareness to the need for green in our cities. Temporary public parks will be created by building a green space in ordinary metered spaces or [...]
Hoseware Repurposed Garden Hoses
Chase DeForest was educated as a sculptor, worked as a furniture maker, and is now an artist designer who lets her pastimes of gardening and the outdoors meld with her work.
Panhandle Bandshell Uses Recycled Car Hoods
The Panhandle Bandshell built in San Francisco’s Panhandle Park is a nearly all reclaimed/repurposed materials amphitheatre. With the goal of educating about recycling, creating a free performance space, and installing a working piece of art the Bandshell truly wears many hats. Made from 65 used car hoods, reclaimed wood including French doors, old circuit boards [...]
Old Bike Tires Find New Life in Retirement: Re-tyre Belts
This is a perfect solution for that blown out tire from the morning commute…fashion it into a belt! Velo-re furbishes beautiful belts from old bike tires. They incorporate all sorts of treads and sizes from knobby mountain tires to smooth slicks. Velo-re has two stock styles, Beltoe and Beltie, which are slick and semi-slick treads.
