I always enjoy coming across reuse ideas on sites where I don’t expect to find such things … like Buzzfeed! But this post about what to do with pizza boxes is pretty cool:
So you can’t recycle them and they don’t fit in your trash can. Earn a few extra karma points with the earth by making these practical projects.
Here they are: 15 Awesome Things You Can Make With A Stupid Pizza Box
The morning hours at Maya Pedal were filled with the sounds of grinding metal for the bicicuchilladora, a bicycle-powered cutting machine. The simple appliance, powered by a bicycle drivetrain, has at its heart a concrete cylinder, with columns of two-inch-long blades spinning within a plastic tube. Once used to move people, its bicycle parts now mince plastic in preparation for recycling or turning compost.
(via How a Bike-Powered Corn Mill Can Boost Guatemalan Campesinos | Living on GOOD)
Handlebar table.
DIY, inspiration — if you can get your hands on some old bike handlebars!
More uses for old bicycles and bike parts here.
More pallet porn: Wine racks made from pallet wood.
Adding to our repurposed-pallet Pinterest board.
(photo via MyBrothersBarn on Etsy)
Today’s pallet porn: Wine racks made from pallet wood.
That’s three recurring Unconsumption themes — pallet-, wine-, and storage-related repurposing — all rolled into one photo!
(photo via DelHutsonDesigns on Etsy)
An empty lot near a hospital in Malawi has been transformed into the country’s first playground for disabled children, with play equipment made from recycled materials—including—appropriately for the location—an old ambulance.
Dutch designers Luc van Hoeckel and Pim van Baarsen turned the ambulance, found in a junkyard, into a playhouse. Other scrap material, like car tires, axles, and springs, were also turned into new equipment with the help of Sakaramenta, a local social enterprise that also makes bicycle carts. Their goals: to make something simple, strong, and sustainable.
![Here’s how it works: A library card gets you a packet of seeds. You then grow the fruits and vegetables, harvest the new seeds from the biggest and best, and return those seeds so the library can lend them out to others.
How To Save A Public Library: Make It A Seed Bank : The Salt : NPR)
Via BoingBoing
Earlier on Unonsumption: seed libraries in Los Angeles, and Richmond.
And semi-related: http://plantcatching.com/en — a site where gardeners can share their extra (or unwanted) plants, seeds, gardening materials (compost, soil, rock). [Thx M.B.!]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/58875b40c6aa10ca6670df604ddbae6f/tumblr_miwn6wmdwQ1qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
Here’s how it works: A library card gets you a packet of seeds. You then grow the fruits and vegetables, harvest the new seeds from the biggest and best, and return those seeds so the library can lend them out to others.
How To Save A Public Library: Make It A Seed Bank : The Salt : NPR)
Via BoingBoing
Earlier on Unonsumption: seed libraries in Los Angeles, and Richmond.
And semi-related: http://plantcatching.com/en — a site where gardeners can share their extra (or unwanted) plants, seeds, gardening materials (compost, soil, rock). [Thx M.B.!]
Knit together: Can collaborative fashion change the way we approach clothing? | Grist
Amy Twigger Holroyd approaches fashion with sharing in mind. In one project, she created garments that could be shared by friends with different body types. By making clothes that don’t constrict in places where people vary the most, a size six could potentially share her sweater with a size 16.
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But Holroyd’s projects go beyond one-size-fits-all couture. Her PhD research on “fashion as a commons” is an exploration of how to democratize and disrupt the clothing industry. “If you’re not able to make, you’re dependent on buying,” she says. “And if you’re dependent on buying, you’re dependent on what those people [in the fashion industry] have chosen — the quality of it, the design of it, the aesthetic of it.”
And so, under the umbrella label Keep & Share, she teaches folks how to fix and knit their own clothing, creates and sells long-lasting, sharable clothing, and hacks into cheap knitwear to send a message about the industry.
An interesting, slow-fashion, collaborative consumption-type of idea, for sure.
Blog | The Noun Project: Designing “Badges of Honor” for Organics Recycling
We’ve teamed up with Minneapolis’ Hennepin County Environmental Services to host an Iconathon design workshop with the goal of creating a badge system that can be displayed on storefronts across the city. These “badges of honor” will be similar in nature to the Yelp or Zagat rating stickers that can be seen on restaurants around the country. The Iconathon will be held on Sunday, March 24th as part of University of Minnesota College of Design’s Public Interest Design Week.
Our goal is to engage the design community and civic activists to create new “badges of honor” to encourage more recycling programs around the world. The icons created during the Iconathon will be released into the public domain to be used by anyone interested in engaging in recycling programs.
More here.
In an attempt to incorporate art with the surrounding area, Rooms to Let has started an adaptive new type of gallery display which places art installations in various abandoned homes, empty lots, and even properties that have been deemed unsafe to enter.
A farm storage bin turned into a pool house? Yes, please.
(via FarmHouseLife)
