August 2009
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Freshkills Park Events - Randy Ludacer: Songs... →
Mr. Ludacer will play a set of songs based around consumer packaging, specifically written to be performed atop Freshkills Park. Randy considers it an opportunity to “serenade the decades of discarded packaging buried beneath.” [Attendees get free CD!]
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'Mister Jalopy' is the reuse, recycle guru -... →
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WatchAfrigadget: “We’ve got a lot of plastic trash all over Africa, especially in the cities. A team from IDDS (Amit Gandhi from the US, and Mark Driordan from the UK) decided to create a way to add value to waste plastic by using a low-cost process to transform it into something useful: plastic sheets. From these sheets can be made a number of other products. On display they had shoes, bags,...
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Open source industrial design in Brooklyn - Core77 →
What would you do with a sack full of dead iPods, or a homemade RP machine? Check out the goings-on at this Brooklyn-based “Hacker space,” where up to 30 tinkerers get together to take stuff apart and Frankenstein it into other things.
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AltUse →
‘Save money and heal the earth by extending the life of everything you already own.
Whether it’s using hairspray to remove ink stains, vodka to clean your eyeglasses, or coffee grounds to fertilize your garden, AltUse taps into the planet’s collective wisdom so you can keep more in your wallet and send less to landfill! ‘
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“In one area, greenery might be taken to excess. Denmark’s crematorium...”
– Danish greenery: Body heat | The Economist
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SwapTree →
“swaptree is a place where you can trade books, music, dvds or video games that you own for thousands of items that you want all for FREE!”
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Kept - Things don't have to be rubbish →
“Hello. We are Kept. We’re not selling anything. Just the opposite. We want you to keep the stuff you’ve already got. To use it. To wear it. To celebrate it! We all love shiny new things, but it turns out they don’t make us as happy as we thought. This is our moment to start making things better: start by keeping something instead of replacing it, and most importantly tell...
A Week Without Plastic | ReadyMade Magazine →
“Trying to live plastic-free for a week and reporting daily on my progress (or lack thereof).”
ThredUp - A Refresh Button for Your Closet →
This is a brand-new, still-in-development startup project that you may want to check out.
It’s asserted that the average 20/30 something stops wearing an item after only a year, then they sit on it for another year before finally giving away. Why do we do that?
As I understand it, this service/company aims to address this, and present a more efficient way of dealing with used clothing as a...
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