People at the Hopewell Valley Green Market expressed great surprise over everydaytrash.com coming “all the way” from Brooklyn to the market this weekend. All you city kittens, please take a look and see what you missed.
Our space with lovely new banner
Organizer and trash superhero Tom Adelman
Upcycled medical equipment
From flooding debris to birhouses
We had the BEST time at the Hopewell Valley Green Market yesterday and collected many story ideas and photos to share with you in the coming weeks. Before we dig into that juicy green goodness, though, I’d like to send a special shout out to Tom Adelman for organizing an amazing event. Thanks for having us, Tom! And thanks for planting this blush-worthy description of everdaytrash.com in the local paper.
Major players in the green movement have been booked for the market, such as clean power provider Sterling Planet, recycled product masterminds Terracycle and EverydayTrash.com’s Leila Darabi of Brooklyn, a revolutionary in the “garblogging” world who will be discussing interesting uses for trash and who Adelman says is “an Internet legend.”
See you in September at the next green market!
Decorative Dumpster Day is fast approaching, so let us know if you’d like to participate. The rules are simple: Post a photo of a decorated dumpster or other trash receptical and link back to the three host blogs: Olympia Dumpster Divers, The Visible Trash Society and everydaytrash.com. In return, we’ll be linking to ALL the participating sites to create a giant web of dumpster images.
To get the party started, Ltttle Shiva designed this trashtastic logo for the event, please feel free to use it. Text to accompany your images is entirely up to your own discretion/imagination. Can’t wait to see what you’ve got!
Ruby Re-Usable, Little Shiva and I are having an online party on May 1st to be hosted by our blogs Olympia Dumpster Divers, The Visible Trash Society and Everydaytrash.com as well as other neat locales in the garblogosphere. Stay tuned for a fuller list of participants. And in the meantime, if you’ve been decorating your dumpster/other trash-holding container or seen a neat one in the NYC area that deserves a day in the spotlight, let me know.
Check out this inspired event, an exhilarating way to reuse old cardboard boxes and fashion them into something AWESOME like a windblower-powered vehicle. Rules and regs below. As they say “imagination and embellishment required”.
Wind Dragster Competition Rules and Regulations
SanFran trashies, please attend and report back. These shenanigans are to be hosted by the Cardboard Institute of Technology, creators of such whimsical projects as Death Cry of Recyclor and Welcome to Cardburg.
Today’s secret word is obtainium. Scream when you hear it.
I read about obtanium—a poetic term for salvaged objects—in this ambling New York Times profile of artist and architect Randy Polumbo. The piece covers building houses in the desert out of shipping containers and empty tequila bottles and making sculpture out of dildos. Also, it’s about libertarians.
Dave Lauridsen for The New York Times
There’s some good stuff in there about the silly terms people use to fancy up good old fashioned recycling, dumpster diving and conserving. Like “green architecture”. To be honest, though, I found the article itself hard to get into, it’s a little all over the place. Or I am. It’s been a long week and the Internet is destroying my attention span.
Luckily, if you’re scattered like me, there’s an audio slide show. And for the truly word averse, Polumbo’s Web site has several video clips showing his home and art.
Vodpod videos no longer available.via Treehugger
My favorite idea is guitar pick. Also, I want that girl’s shirt. Think it comes in “halal”?
What better metaphor for recycling than the celebration of rebirth? For your consideration: a roundup of recycled Spring holiday ideas so cute you don’t even have to be Christian to appreciate them.
First up, from Ruby Re-usable, get a load of this wonder bunny. This is my second favorite use of Wonderbread bags, just after Ruby’s amazing Wonder bra.
recycled art bunny by Ruby Re-Usable
Next up, this soda pop magnet from the Etsy Trashion Team. The trashion team has a roundup of their own. This gem came via FunkyRecycling.
soda pop sheep from etsy
Finally, check out this CBS segment on going green for Easter AND these tips from an “Eco Rabbi” on Passover cleaning as a chance to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Happy Easter, happy Pesach, happy Noruz…
In December we let you know that the financial crisis might kill the Garbage Museum in Connecticut. Those as charmed by the giant dinasaur trash sculpture as I might be interested in this story from the AP full of Trash-o-saurus fun facts and also the encouraging news that the museum has redoubled fundraising efforts. Stay up to date via the Save the Garbage Museum blog.
trashosaurus
I know, I know. With the global economy and my bank balance in the dumps, I should NOT be browsing sites like Great Green Goods and even if I sneak a peak, I shouldn’t be passing on nonessential spending ideas. But these shiney bottlecap beads are so adorable, I just had to share.
recycled bottlecap beads
And if you’re like me, and like to offset shopper’s remorse by investing in feel good items with good stories behind them, check out this stationary decorated with tiny scenes painted on flattened caps.
bottlecap stationary from Zimbabwe
We’ve been hearing it for years, but this time I finally believe the rumors that this will be the last summer of the Coney Island Cyclone—meaning if you want to ride something wooden and mechanical and full of the romance of old New York, you will after this year have to haul ass all the way to 34th street and hop on one of the original escalators at the Macy’s flagship store.
Rosier/News
But before Coney Island is overhauled, or at least one-third of it is, New Yorkers spent the afternoon yesterday sprucing up the trash barrels that will line the boardwalk for a final season of the old amusement area. Bring on the summer and seedy nostalgea, I’m craving a hot dog.
…will be at the Seattle Green Festival this weekend making art out of trash.
Mark your calendars for April 18th-May 1st, NYC-based trashies. The 13 Days of Waste are sure to be a specacle worth attending. Details and an explanation of this amazing image at the ever-stimulating Visible Trash.
via Visible Trash
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