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Philadelphians to be paid for recycling under new programme
You cannot strike a better deal than being paid for things that is nothing more waste to you. People of Philadelphia are receiving monetary benefits for recycling paper, plastic, glass and aluminum. The new recycling initiative titled the ‘Philad...
MovieTime Clocks: Unusual timepieces from vintage upcycled movie reels
Time just flies by watching a nice interesting movie, but now, the same movies might help you keep a tab on the time passing by. Designer Kathy Mayer has come up with an innovative idea of making beautiful clocks made from movie reels. Hailed the �...
Beer Master Tour at Anheuser-Busch allows visitors to explore green brewing process
Anheuser-Busch’s Jacksonville brewery is not just any run of the mill foundation. Instead, it’s quite a label owing to its green production facilities that are thrown open to the public via the Beer Master Tour. Guests could actually approach t...
Cameron Rosen’s Eco Challenge promotes sustainable building practices
Cameron Rosen, the project manager of a residential development at Rose Bay, is a true environmentalist. He adopts sustainable practices in his projects and is seen challenging local builders and their clients these days to develop houses that incl...
St. Helena restaurant Press recycles food waste into fertilizers
Leslie Rudd’s contemporary restaurant the “Press St. Helena” has become the first in the Napa Valley to install a system that recycles food waste into a dry, nutrient-rich soil additive. The technology developed and used in South Korea for go...
Recycled telephone directories used as canvas for mesmerizing portraits
Being a true art enthusiast, I often look around for creations that would excite me. Just going through my usual surf I came across something unusual. An artist creates magic with old telephone books by carving and painting portraits on them. Alex ...
Young students learn the art of recycling at Westmont Junior High
Teaching little children the art of recycling is such a beautiful thought and if you wish to see it being put to action then visit Westmont Junior High. Young kids were taught new and interesting methods to recycle everyday household items. In a sp...
Sandia National Laboratories to convert CO2 into transportation fuel with CR5
A unique invention by Sandia National Laboratories’ researcher Rich Diver is here to revolutionize the transportation industry forever. The innovation is a prototype of a machine that uses sun’s energy to convert carbon dioxide waste from power...
Cigarette butts recycled into rolls could help insulate homes
Call it their helplessness, reluctance or the plain denial to shun the abhorrent habit; it makes smokers despicable to others (who do not smoke). Besides, it is cancerous to environment. However, the London Borough at Harrow hopes to lend some resp...
Eco artists change Houstan’s poor recycling image with their creations
Not until Divya Murthy and Nicola Parente attended the Systems of Sustainability: Art, Innovation, Action (SOS) conference held at University of Houston, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts last spring, did they realize that their idea of re...
Advanced CD recycling facility in Melbourne to reprocess one million ton annually
Alex Fraser Group unveils a $45 million construction and demolition (C&D) materials recycling facility in Victoria, Melbourne. With an annual capacity of approximately one million ton, the state-of-the-art facility, dubbed as the Western Metro...
Colin Lin reuses discarded newspapers to create eco-friendly shoes and tote bags
Designer Colin Lin, 50, chanced upon a brilliant idea of creating eco-friendly footwear and tote bags using recycled newspaper. The Taiwanese designer recycles Chinese language newspapers and weaves them into a lattice pattern. In order to endow he...
UK’s new eco-friendly road made from 95% recycled material
The Merton Council’s maintenance contractor FM Conway Ltd., kicked off a five-week project under which a road suffered from edge defects and fretting was repaired using 95% recycled material. The 765-yard section of the Cannizaro Road in Wimb...
David de Rothschild has high hopes with his catamaran made of recycled plastic
David de Rothschild hopes to sail out the Golden Gate and across the Pacific to Sydney Harbor in his magnificent 60-foot catamaran made completely from recycled plastic. Dubbed as Plastiki, the high-profile project from the 31-year-old eco-celebrit...
Young students transform trash to treasure at Corriher-Lipe
Creativity and ingenuity of young students was on display at a recycled art show of a middle school system. Dubbed as ‘Trash to Treasure’, the recycled art show held at Corriher-Lipe last week, displayed work of about 300 middle school students...
\'Recycle everything\' policy gets a state award for South Jersey Healthcare
South Jersey Healthcare has made a place in many hearts for serving humanity as well as the environment. The hospital system is doing its bit for the planet by implementing a “recycle everything” policy. The staff is seen recycling or reusing e...
Trash turns into treasure at Geauga Park District\'s recycled art exhibition
If you wish to see the magical transformation of trash into treasure, then visit the Geauga Park District’s West Woods Nature Center this Saturday. The center will become the place for the “discARTed” recycled art exhibition, whic...
Steve Meadows transforms trash into lifelike sculptures
Steve Meadows is one of those gifted artists who don’t always go after expensive primal matter to create masterpieces. Relying on his creativity, he transforms trash and other found objects into fanciful and humorous sculptures, delivering them i...
Eli Lilly and Company announces an eco-friendly biotechnology center
Eli Lilly and Company has opened doors for discovery and development of some more biotechnology medicines with the official opening of a new state-of-the-art biotechnology center on the West Coast. Dubbed the “Lilly Biotechnology Center - San Die...
World’s tallest treehouse made from tons of reclaimed wood
If you think you have seen enough treehouses, think again. Here is a treehouse you would have never seen or even thought of, for that matter. Dubbed as the Minister’s Treehouse, this unusual structure visualized by Horace Burgess was made using r...
Walking on a flexible pavement to generate enegry
Walking not only keeps us healthy but also generates energy. But, how many of us have really thought of putting this energy into use. Well, here is someone who has invented the rubber Pavegen stone, which will help in producing power by simply step...
Eco Echoes: Ugandan army wives recycling paper to support their families
We are living in an age where women no longer stay at home taking care of the family and the house. Today’s woman is a woman of substance, she walks with the world proving her potential. Exemplifying the same is a group of women, who not only pay...
2010 Olympic medals to be made from recycled electronics
Recycled articles are in no way less than the new ones. This time it’s 2010 Olympics medals that are taking recycling to a new level altogether. Vancouver metal giant Teck Resources has joined forces with the Royal Canadian Mint to transform ...
Field Chapel, exemplifying beauty and sustainability
Ecker Architekten teamed up with students of the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture to design and build a stunning Field Chapel. Located at the foothills of Boedigheim, Germany, the 9-meter-high structure was completely made u...
Eco Echoes: HP taking the world to a green future with Eco Solutions
A run between gadget companies to become an industrial leader in reducing their impact on the environment has begun. Giving a tough competition to all the competitors is HP, a company that is committed toward reducing energy consumption along with......
Recycled Art: Amazing robots made from trash
The expanding working arena of robotics has made humans obliged to accept them as co-workers, friends and even entertainers in some scenes. Since, the robots are the future; then how about crafting robots from recycled material? Sounds cool and green...
Remote-controlled eco-friendly airplanes on display at Gadgetoff 2009
Do you wish to bring out the child in you? Then a remote-controlled airplane could do the trick for you. Displaying one such innovation was Breck Baldwin, who flaunted green airplanes at the 2009 Gadgetoff held at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Bo...
Music goes green with EcoNation\'s eco-friendly speakers
How about binding eco-friendly stuff to create music that has the power to bind the world? This is exactly what EcoNation NEO Speakers have implemented. The speakers are made of 80% recycled material. Not only are they interestingly designed, but a...
Greentopia: Green, the latest trend in home décor
Who doesn’t want to be surrounded by beautiful things and if they are green, what more can you ask for? Blending beauty and sustainability with home décor serves the purpose here. More and more people today are opting for greener alternatives, be ...
