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Discover tash artist Paul Mastosic .
"Virtual" Paul Mastosic
This British artist works mainly with recycled materials and wont travel to shows if he can’t justify the carbon footprint. I dig his work with packaging.
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Paul Otellini
I’m in Kampala this week, attending the International Conference on Family Planning on behalf of the day job . Tonight at the opening session, I was surprised to see the first lady of Uganda on the program. Before today the only reproductive health activities I’d ever heard of her ...
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Did you catch the NYT piece on the garbage patch last week and/or check out the accompanying slide show ? The author of that article is Lindsey Hoshaw , a freelance journalist who spent three weeks this summer aboard the Oceanographic Research Vessel Alguita on an expidition led by ...
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via www.americarecyclesday.org
FACT : Twenty years ago, almost 1,000 curbside recycling programs existed in the United States. Today there are more than 10,000 across the nation.
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I first heard from trash photographer Nathan Kensinger this summer when we discovered a mutual love for abandoned marine transfer stations . Turns out our friends at Fresh Kills Park saw that post and invited Kensinger to photograph the infamous former landfill and capture its refound wild ...
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Check out these classical mountain scenes photoshopped out of trash mounds by artist Yao Lu via pdn . Thanks for the tip, Victoria!
P.S. I’m in East Africa with crappy internet access so bear with me if posts are light on photos for a week or two. Please.
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This just in! An everydaytrash.com exclusive from Cairo where Garbage Dreams filmmaker Mai Iskander arranged for our friend and journalist Beige Luciano-Adams to attend a screening of the film and speak with Zabaleen activists.
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Following a screening of Garbage Dreams at the ...
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This review is part of the Green Books campaign . Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally friendly way. Our goal is to encourage publishers to get greener and readers to take the environment into consideration when purchasing books. This campaign is ...
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Ahoy trashies, upcyclers, dumpster divers and what have you. A friend is collecting discarded playground rubber—you know, the kind of stuff under jungle gyms—for use lining the floors of his music studio. I am particularly invested in this project because a) it deals with trash and ...
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One day, I will own my own brownstone. Or at least half of one. My sister can have the other half. And inside this brownstone will be enough room for a dining room table to cook for my friends and a desk by a window so I can work from home. I will sit in this:
Upcycled Vespa chair
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everydaytrash.com - 18 days ago
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New Yorkers, save the date for November 14th.
Quad Cinema will screen Counterbalance, a new film about...
waste pickers in Dehli as part of the 8th Annual Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival. Event starts at noon. $15 general ...
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Check out this Treehugger compilation (via unconsumption):
12 Ways to Use Shipping Containers as Offices, Housing and Art .
via Treehugger
I think everydaytrash.com should have a little office made of shipping containers. I wonder who might fund that project.
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Sesame Street Mocks “Pox News” via HuffPo
Happy Birthday, Sesame Street. Thank you for Oscar. I remember when Big Bird was the only person who could see Snuffy. And when Mr. Cooper died. He was the first person I knew who died. Everyone on Sesame Street drank hot ...
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Another trashy woman rec from the wonderful Beth Terry of Fake Plastic Fish : Trash Trip . It’s the website of engineer and artist Karen Hawes who will trek from Alaska to Argentina reporting on trash along the way. We look forward to updates and interviews from the road .
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Everydaytrash.com sends a warm congratulations to The Spirit of Youth Association—an association of Zaballeen from the Caireen shantytown of Manchiet Nasser—who recently received a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Director Mai Iskander and two of ...
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Bill Ayers
Trash artist Martin Waters recently sent us a link to his website , a resource chock-full of compelling sculpture, photography and images of past installations. He uses a lot of beach debris in his work, collected from Spurn Point, where he was artist in residence in 2007.
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Martin O'Malley
A few months ago, my friend Ami Evangelista Swanepoel and her husband Marcus packed up their New York City life and set off for her native Philippines to start a nonprofit organization called Roots of Health (Ugat ng Kalusugan). Roots of Health’s mission is to improve the health and ...
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My friend Oriana posted this Curbed blurb on Facebook under the above heading. These people are leaving free chairs for the taking out with the trash. The catch, the chairs contain sensors to track where they end up. Check out their Flikr for images . I’m not sure a designer chair is ...
