Crayola Creates Recycling Program at Urging of Bay Area Kids

Source: blog.sfgate.com Published: June 7, 2013 By Jill Tucker Students at Sun Valley Elementary School in San Rafael learned first hand that persistence really does pay off. A year ago in April they asked Crayola to come up with a recycling program for old markers....

Artist Converts Vintage Suitcases into ‘Nest Colonies’

Source: treehugger.com Published: May 24, 2013   © Robert Lach Many a vintage store has an old suitcase or two in stock, and while we’ve seen these classics turned into everything from lovely furniture to fully functioning speakers, American artist Robert Lach turns...

Garbage Homes – Bolivia

Source: aljazeera.com Published: February 5, 2013 We follow one woman who is on a mission to build homes for the poor from the only resource she can find in abundance. Ingrid Vaca Diez is on a mission to build better homes for the poor. With few funds and little...

Composting Human Hair: Earth-Friendly Disposal of Hair Clippings

Source: voices.yahoo.com Published: June 14, 2012 Many of our great volunteers collected so much hair that, unfortunately, we cannot use all of it right now for oil spills. We are always on the lookout for new ways to recycle the hair. Click on the link to...