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Green Wrapping: DIY Cardboard Pillow Box

Green Wrapping: DIY Cardboard Pillow Box

If you've taken the "Buy Handmade" challenge this year why stop there? Inspired by Doug's post last year about turning a cereal box into an eco-friendly gift box, I endeavored to make a pillow box this year.

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DIY: Turn Your Camera into a Scanner or Copier

DIY: Turn Your Camera into a Scanner or Copier

Over the years I’ve been consolidating my stuff.  As appliances and computer peripherals have died I haven’t replaced them unless they were an absolute necessity. My mircrowave died and now I just cook things that don’t require a microwave (which is healthier anyway).  Another piece of machineryI haven’t had for years is a scanner/fax.  With [...]

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DIY Cardboard Laptop Stand

DIY Cardboard Laptop Stand

Get your laptop off the table and stop hunching over to see the screen with this DIY cardboard laptop stand. It's small, light, free & green and it will help you cut down on the trips to the chiropractor.

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Reduce & Reuse with the Green Box Pizza Box

Reduce & Reuse with the Green Box Pizza Box

Here's another great packaging innovation called the Green Box. Basically it's a regular pizza box that is pre-perforated so it can serve several uses: 1) Pizza Box 2) Dinner Plates & 3) Space Saving Storage Box.

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Upcycled Cardboard Sculptures

Upcycled Cardboard Sculptures

These amazingly realistic, lifesize sculptures are made with nothing more than cardboard and glue.  Chris Gilmour is an artist whose creativity has been captured by the idea of upcycling.  He literally picks up cardboard boxes from the street and takes them into his studio to be transformed into incredibly beautiful sculptures.

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Movin’ On Up…to the Green Side

Movin’ On Up…to the Green Side

I hate moving on so many levels. It equals upheaval in every sense of the word, usually happens on the hottest day of the summer (in my move-once-a-year undergrad days anyway), and, worst of all- it means boxes. Finding boxes, saving boxes, packing boxes, unpacking boxes, and then wondering how you’ll fit all those boxes [...]

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Sustainable PC Design: Recompute Cardboard Desktop Computer

Sustainable PC Design: Recompute Cardboard Desktop Computer

One of the coolest entries that I’ve seen in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition is Recompute, a cardboard-housed PC. The Recompute design does away with many of the not-so-eco-friendly materials that go into computer manufacturing, such as ABS plastic, instead using corrugated cardboard for the housing.

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Frank Gehry’s Wiggle Cardboard Furniture

Frank Gehry’s Wiggle Cardboard Furniture

Upgrade: $498+ These reproductions from Frank Gehry’s Easy Edges furniture project (1969–73) are sturdy pieces made from recycled corrugated cardboard with lacquered side panels.  The Guggenheim reflects on Gehry’s furniture: Gehry’s furniture designs are a “quick fix” of his architectural practice: their realization is relatively immediate and low cost, and they provide a satisfying smaller [...]

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