Hose & Britches: Hot Upcycled Firehose Fashions Firehoses don't do the environment any favors when their working lives are through, so upcycling used firehoses into hot fashion…
Brick-Shaped Beer Bottles Save Space, Become Building Blocks There’s a reason beer bottles are shaped like they are – they fit perfectly into the palms of our hands…
Butting In: Portrait Made of Over 20K Used Cigarette Butts Cigarette butts litter the streets of most cities and towns, creating an environmental burden that could easily be avoided. Swiss…
Sleeping in Trash, Trains & Drains: 14 Recycled Hotels When you’re in search of a romantic honeymoon spot or comfortable lodging after a long day of travel, sewage pipes,…
10 Surprising Reclaimed & Recycled Building Materials Sheet rock and brand new lumber from the hardware store seem awfully boring – and incredibly wasteful – when you…
The Impermanence of Memory: Recycling Storage Into Art The sad truth about our electronics consumption is that we often end up throwing away obsolete technology. How many of…
Plastic, Fantastic: Hand-Built Ecological Bottle House When we think about the matra Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, the “reuse” part is often overlooked. But an enterprising family in…
Corrugated Art: Incredible Upcycled Cardboard Sculptures Environmental art can take many forms. One of the most striking is when an artist takes a mass-produced material that…
Suck It! 8 Brilliant Examples of Plastic Drinking Straw Art Plastic drinking straws are one of the hallmarks of our disposable society. The little tubes are manufactured to be used…
Message in a Bottle: A Village Made of Recycled Bottles You can always count on your grandma to make wonderful crafty things, but Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village in Simi Valley,…