The property market is in the doldrums, mortgages are elusive but there is still some hope for the first-time buyer: the paper house.
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Cardboard Tubes Used To Build Earthquake-Ready School In China
Last year’s earthquake in Sichuan province, China killed 69,000 people and flattened thousands of buildings, including schools. A team led by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is constructing new temporary but strong school buildings using plywood and cardboard tubes.
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From The Cardboard Kitchen
Now this is real low fat eating
Patianne Stevenson sculpts her favorite foods from recycled cardboard… that is, when she is not painting them or creating new recipes for cooking and eating them. Her sculpturing skills are so satisfying to look at, that I call them eye cake! You’ll see why.
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Yulia Brodskaya’s Papercraft
Colorful Cutouts
Some people can make fantastic art from simple things. Take for instance this amazing papercraft artwork by Russian artist Yulia Brodskaya. Bravo!
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Jeans Made From Plastic, Paper Made From Jeans
Take a load of empty plastic water bottles to manufacture jeans, or turn waste denim into paper: as eco-consciousness spreads, makers of the planet’s most popular item of clothing are increasingly resorting to recycling.
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Turning Elephant Poo Into Paper
The Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Company
The Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Company, is focused today on the production, innovation and marketing of all sorts of fun products made from elephant poo! They have a fun and dynamic international team at their modest outfits in N. America, Australia, Japan, and Europe where they spread the word and sell their products, as well as in Asia where they make all of their fantastic products using age-old paper making techniques, evolved locally over hundreds of years.
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Post-It-Note Pen
I’ve seen tons of pens in my life, but I’ve never seen a pen that carries paper inside ready for you to write on to at any given moment. The Post A Note pen is just that… it comes with a built in cartridge that is filled with small yellow post-it notes.
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Introducing the Paper Bottle
Extremely innovative new packaging from Brandimage, who was responsible for everything including concept development, branding, prototyping, engineering, and product design. The 360 Paper Bottle is the first of its kind in the world, and a true environmentally-friendly solution to the problem of plastic water bottles: (Pics)
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Terracycle: Creates Amazing Products From Waste
Terracycle
When I think about good companies that have education, people and the environment in mind, one of the companies I think about first is Terracycle.
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paintNpause: Plastic Pouches That Preserve Wet Paint
Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase
The degradable paintNpause products preserve the wet paint within the paintbrush, roller and tray while greatly reducing the need for continuous cleaning and flushing paint into the water runoff system.
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Growing Natural Crystal Furniture
Tokujin Yoshioka’s chair made from growing natural crystals will headline the exhibition Second Nature opening on the 17th in Tokyo this month. The Venus chair builds on his earlier work such as Honey-pop (2001) which used a honeycombed paper structure to obtain it’s strength and the Pane chair (2006) made of a translucent spongy material called polyester elastomer. The Venus chair is grown in a tank, the production process half controlled by Yoshioka and half left up to nature.
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Ecovative Design’s Greensulate Revolutionizes Insulation
Ecovative Design’s Greensulate (building insulation) and Negative Volume (packaging) are manufactured -or rather, grown-from agricultural waste products like rice hulls, which are combined with water, recycled paper and living mushroom cells to create panels that can be used to insulate buildings or protect packages during shipment.
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