Memories of indoor games are littered with the lingering odor of adolescent sweat, the squeak of plimsoles and those gymnasium floors lined up for basketball et al. But those gym floors don’t last forever and as it turns out they can be recycled into some surprisingly desirable home products. The clever people at mademansion.com are stocking [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ethical products’
Gym Class eco-heroes
Posted in Ethical product, recycled materials, tagged ethical products on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A new life for spent jeans
Posted in Ethical product, recycled materials, tagged ethical materials, ethical products, green home improvement, recycled materials on February 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I think I must go through at least one pair of jeans a year. Sure they get a gradual retirement, probably a years service for decorating and jobs around the house. But there’s a point when every pairs of jeans doesn’t have the right feel when you pull them on – and that’s when you [...]
Reclaimed wood coffee tables
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged eco table, ethical product, ethical products, reclaimed wood, recycled materials on February 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Etsy has become a great resource for finding useful products cunningly crafted from recycled materials. Right now they have these great coffee tables made from reclaimed wood saved from 100 year old barns in Kentucky. It’s just the kind of loving restoration the Colonel would approve of. It’s a beautiful piece of recycled furniture and [...]
Flotsam and jetsam
Posted in Ethical product, recycled materials, Uncategorized, tagged eco building, ethical mater, ethical products, living green, reclaimed materials on June 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As any beachcomber will tell you identifying the flotsam from the jetsam is the least of your worries. The world’s oceans are becoming choked with assorted debris that has roughly the same half life as plutonium. Naturally the way to highlight the woe’s of the world’s ocean’s was to build a pop-up hotel from 12 [...]
Airport security? … yeah that’s going to go well
Posted in recycled materials, tagged ethical bag, ethical product, ethical products, recycled materials on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not like passing through airports became a more elegantprocess over the last decade. Jacket off, metal detector sweep, pat down, shoes off, jacket off, laptop into the ‘sniffer’ etc…. . It’s a little bit like having your pockets checked for chewing gum at school – but without the thrill of having a genuine chance [...]
Shattered glass
Posted in Glass, tagged eco wine glass, ethical homeware, ethical products, recycled glass on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I just type a seemingly random word into Google, not because it is a search engine but because it is a marketing machine – a roulette wheel for businesses seeking punters. I’m not searching for anything in particular, just curious about who would want to pay for that query. Provoked by that mornings java [...]
Rod it’s time to give those chaps a new lease of life
Posted in recycled materials, wallet, tagged ethical materials, ethical product, ethical products, ethical wallet, green wallet, reclaimed materials on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After the groundbreaking Great Green Goods (and if you are reading bare in mind that mimicry truly is the greatest form of flattery) featured this wallet made from reclaimed leather I had to have one. In fact they only did a run of 45 of them and I have the only one in the UK [...]
