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recycling

The Arranged Marriage of Trash and Treasure

June 29, 2009

We were smitten when we posted Rod Pujante’s handcrafted blooms last year made from discarded water bottles and just KNEW that some discerning green-style setters would see the high-trashion potential. Frances [...]

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Soak Up The View From This Fab Garden Bench

June 18, 2009

Some people can look at things cast off and thrown aside and imagine something new and wonderful. Katie’s artistic eye and creative vision gave new life to an old tub as [...]

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Remember what happened with Tang

June 3, 2009

If you were living in America during the sixties, you know what I’m talking about. Tang. That nasty-tasting, gritty-grainy pseudo-orange powdered breakfast beverage from Kraft that was a commercial flop until it swept [...]

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Feed Me Your PETs

May 28, 2009

Here’s a refuse container that’s happy to assist you with recycling your refuse, doing it’s dirty job with a determined smile. Made me smile, too. (Spotted and photographed by Virginia Leonard, Thirsty [...]

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Aquamantra Gets Its Groove Back

May 13, 2009

Remember Aquamantra, that deeply spiritual fluid that “resonates with the energy and frequency of your well-being?” That karma-in-a-bottle where “the quality of your thoughts determine the quality of your life [...]

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Beware the Ecological Inspector

April 18, 2009

Please recycle your recyclables in the recycled container? All these -cycles are leaving me tongue-tied! Nice shot from laraine on Flickr, who snapped this photo in a large park in [...]

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Museum-Quality Water Bottles in Bulgaria

March 26, 2009

This installation on the facade of the National Gallery of Bulgaria was short-lived but striking. For just over two weeks, from March 7-24, 2009, the display created by the Bulgarian [...]

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Attention Conspiracy Theorists: NASA Water Recycling

March 2, 2009

Ordinarily, I’d post this photo of Vietnamese bottled water “purified by NASA’s award-winning technology” strictly for our amusement. (from the Picasa Web Album Hoi An, Vietnam by Mark) But it [...]

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Sneaky Recycling at the Mini-Bar

February 25, 2009

We usually feel it’s a crime to fail to recycle plastic bottles, but not always, as in this funny-but-not-funny case of felonious recycling and abuse of “fresh sink water” spotted [...]

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Creative Thinkers Hit the Bottle

February 2, 2009

www.instructables.com, in partnershp with Tap’dNY, is running a “Keep the Bottle” Contest calling for great ideas to recycle and reuse plastic bottles. Tap’d is an organization that has been very [...]

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