Design Sledgehammer-Wielding Artist Turns Abandoned Buildings Into Beautiful Sculptures Laura FeinsteinFeb 23, 2015
Articles 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.Adele Peters18 Jan, 2013
Articles 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...Good Is05 Dec, 2012
Articles Salvaging By Design: Upcycling Fashion Industry Scraps Clothing and apparel maker Looptworks has a unique business goal: never create anything new.Sarah Stankorb02 Sep, 2012
Articles 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.Dave Burdick25 Aug, 2012
Articles Spring Cleaning: Better Ways to Sell Your Stuff Calling all closet entrepreneurs: Your trash may be someone else's treasure.Elizabeth Hagen15 Apr, 2012
Articles 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?Sarah Laskow08 Apr, 2012
Articles Winners: Revive Your Leftovers The Revive Your Leftovers project has two winners!Elizabeth Inglese01 Aug, 2011
Articles 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.Elizabeth Inglese23 Jul, 2011
Articles Project: Inspire People to Recycle More Tell us how you think we can encourage those around us to adopt better recycling habits!Elizabeth Inglese08 Jul, 2011
Articles 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.Nicola Twilley07 Mar, 2011
Articles 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.Nicola Twilley27 Jan, 2011
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.Alissa Walker01 Jan, 2011
Articles 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.Alissa Walker25 Dec, 2010
Articles 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.Kyla Fullenwider13 Dec, 2010
Articles 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!Alissa Walker10 Dec, 2010
Articles 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.Patrick James12 Nov, 2010