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NYC Will Turn 12,000 Old Parking Meters Into Bike Racks

NYC is retrofitting 12,000 old parking meters to turn them into bike racks.

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Steal This Idea: Glove Love Rescues Single Mittens

A week won't go by in the winter that you don't wander past a single glove, dropped into a puddle, hanging over the back of a bench or...

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Salvaging By Design: Upcycling Fashion Industry Scraps

Clothing and apparel maker Looptworks has a unique business goal: never create anything new.

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Starbucks Is Funding Research That Would Turn Food Waste into Useful Stuff

A new "biorefinery" would transform old coffee grounds and stale baked goods into ingredients for plastics and detergent.

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Spring Cleaning: Better Ways to Sell Your Stuff

Calling all closet entrepreneurs: Your trash may be someone else's treasure.

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The Plastic Bag War Is Moving Toward the Produce Aisle

You don't use plastic bags at the grocery checkout. So why do you still use them in the produce department?

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Winners: Revive Your Leftovers

The Revive Your Leftovers project has two winners!

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Project: Revive Your Leftovers

For our GOOD 30-Day Challenge, we're trying to waste less. Write up a recipe to give new life to your leftovers.

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Project: Inspire People to Recycle More

Tell us how you think we can encourage those around us to adopt better recycling habits!

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Image of the Day: Aquarium Phonebooth

Lighting designer Benoit Deseille and artist Benedetto Bufalino transformed this phone booth into an aquarium, as part of Lyon's Festival of Light.

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TourDeFork's Clever Designs Give Food Scraps a Second Chance

Hold onto your orange peel and coffee grounds: Italian design studio Tour de Fork wants to make your trash bag smaller and your house smell better.

Submissions: Design Another Use for an Everyday Object

Check out the submissions from our latest project. The winning idea will receive two tickets to Compostmodern.

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Winner Announced: Design Another Use for an Everyday Object

Susie Rogers and her rescue of an entertainment center wins our latest project, so we're sending her to the Compostmodern conference next month.

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How To: Start a Creative Reuse Revolution in Your Community in 5 Steps

Lisa Hernandez opened the Long Beach Center for Creative Reuse with one simple guiding principal: one man's trash is another's treasure.

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Project: Design Another Use for an Everyday Object

Show us a simple, everyday solution where design thinking and sustainable thinking brilliantly co-exist, and you'll win two tickets to Compostmodern!

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The Self-Repair Manifesto

The Self-Repair Manifesto, by iFixit, advocates fixing rather than replacing products; it also empowers consumers by turning them into contributors.