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Eco-Chic Vegan Shoes From Recycled TVs

Eco-Chic Vegan Shoes From Recycled TVs

Vegan footwear designer Olsenhaus is making a switch of its own—by cladding its entire Fall/Winter 2010 collection of pumps, wedges, stiletto booties, and knee-highs in an innovative polyester microfiber made from trashed television screens.

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Reknit Turns Your Unwanted Knitwear into New Treasures

Reknit Turns Your Unwanted Knitwear into New Treasures

After reading Gary Smith’s expose on cruelty in the wool industry on Elephant Journal a couple of weeks ago, I’ve had knit goods on my mind. Combine that with being pretty bummed about retail waste, and things were looking sort of grim. That is, until I ran across an awesome new company: Reknit.

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iPhone App Will Help You Recycle, then Point You to the Nearest Farmers’ Market

iPhone App Will Help You Recycle, then Point You to the Nearest Farmers’ Market

Need to recycle those pesky #5 plastic yogurt cups when you’re away from home? There’s an app for that. Launched in the spring of 2009 by recycling information clearinghouse, Earth911.com, the iRecycle app for the iPhone helps you find the nearest locations to drop-off water bottles, used motor oil, your old cellphone, or virtually anything that [...]

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Don’t Let Green Fatigue Get You Down

Don’t Let Green Fatigue Get You Down

One of my Twitter pals, @elaan, recently tweeted, “I am producing less garbage and doing more recycling than I ever have, but I still have a long way to go. There’s more I can be doing!” I think we all get overwhelmed sometimes. Technically, she’s right: we could all be doing more. Maybe [...]

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Curbing Conspicuous College Consumption

Curbing Conspicuous College Consumption

Being a college student isn't a license to carelessly ravage through raw materials, but we also can't expect a 19 year old to buy an heirloom set of furniture that they intend to keep for the rest of their days on earth. There has to be a better way to accomodate the transient lifestyle of a student while reducing the volume of furniture that they consume.

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Eco-friendly crafts made easy

Eco-friendly crafts made easy

Crafting stars Jeanée Ledoux & Garth Johnson step you through eleven, easy, fun projects based around the concepts of recycling and repurposing items to create hip new housewares. Not crafty? Don't worry! The projects are all fundamentally very easy, yet with clever, cool end-products. If you can handle tracing, spray painting, and can maybe sink a screw, then you can master all of the projects on this disc.

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