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RecycleBank Rewards Los Angeles Residents For Recycling
RecycleBank rewards participants who recycle their trash with points that can be redeemed from over 1000 participating retailers. But isn’t that rewarding trash with more trash?
Creative Use Of Unconventional Building Materials
A couple of pretty cool examples of unconventional building materials being used as..well…building materials.
Now You Can ‘Go Green’ Even In Death With An ‘Eco-Coffin’
So you love living the green life. Why not have the green death as well with an environmentally friendly eco-coffin?
Brewery Renovation Puts Decades Old Empty Beer Bottles To Good Use
The Blatz Brewery renovation project in Milwaukee puts thousands of decades old empty beer bottles to good use.
Starbucks Begins Cup Recycling Pilot Program In Select NYC Stores
Starbucks has always failed, in large part, to address one of its largest environmental impacts; its cups. That all may be soon changing with a new pilot recycling program in NYC intended to find a way to make all of its cups 100% recyclable by 2012.
Naked Juice Transitioning To 100% Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic Bottles
Naked Juice is planning to be the first nationally-distributed beverage brand to use 100% post-consumer recycled plastic bottles (the Naked reNewabottle) for all of its juices. Though this initiative sounds environmentally beneficial on the surface, the nature of recycling, and recycled content products, often times points to the contrary.
New Balance Offers New Eco-Friendly Shoe Line
Most people don’t realize the enormous impact shoes have on the environment. From deforestation of the Amazon to enormous uses of petroleum, something seemingly small contributes to enormous problems. Boston-based company New Balance has recently rolled out their 70 collection line of eco-friendly trail/running shoes that seem to be a good starting point towards a more sustainably designed and manufactured shoe.
Rice Concrete Helps Reduce Carbon Emissions?
Rice husks contain high amounts of silicon dioxide which is an essential component in concrete. Now researchers in Plano, Texas have developed a method that turns rice husks into a raw material that can be used as a partial replacement for the cement content in concrete. But have they merely created a process for a raw material that’s not even needed?
EcoRock Drywall Lives Up To Its Claims
Second only to lumber as the most commonly used, and disregarded, building material, gypsum drywall has essentially been made the same way for over 100+ years. Like concrete, its manufacturing process is incredibly energy intensive and produces many harmful environmental side effects. Hopefully, this foul monopoly on drywall choices is about to end with EcoRock.
VAST Composite Pavers Offer Numerous Environmental And Practical Benefits
With each successive innovation or improvement surpassing it’s non-sustainable, or pseudo-sustainable, predecessor, green building product solutions seem to be getting turned out every other minute these days. While the bleeding edge of many of these innovations and advancements offer real hope for the future of sustainable building design and construction, many of these products’ environmental benefits, and applications, are very narrow, undefined, and sometimes, even counterintuitive to their intended purpose. VAST has a new product that seems to address all these issues and more.
