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Oil Is History: Photos by L.A. Marler

Art is usually beautiful on its own, but when it also has environmental and social implications — like L.A. Marler's Oil is History series of photographs — it can also convey a point. Se...

Seed Orbs by Richard Solomon

Artist and environmentalist Richard Solomon (locally known in New Mexico as the Seed Shaman) has been turning seeds and plants in to works of art for years. His newest creation is the seed orb: glas...

Unexpected Color: Urban Art Installations by Samuel Francois

We like art, small spaces and the great outdoors. So you can imagine why these amazing painted shacks and trees by artist Samuel Francois made us smile…...

Used Skateboard Decks as Art?
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We've seen used skateboard decks repurposed in a lot of ways, but we'd never seen them hung up like art. What do you think. Does it work?...

Etsy Find: Rothko-Inspired Upcycled Cardboard Art

Here's something else you can do with those moving boxes: turn them into art! We got a tip about these Rothko-inspired pieces of art by Dee Adams painted on leftover cardboard boxes from her recent ...

Hot or Not? Recycled Aluminum Platters by Boris Bally

We can't decide if Boris Bally's recycled aluminum highway sign platters should be considered art or tableware. Get a link to these interesting creations and vote after the jump... ...

New Eco-Inspiration Publication: GreenCraft Magazine

While many magazines have shuttered this past year, there seem to be some new really good ones emerging. We just got our hands on lovely new magazine, GreenCraft, an inspirational resource for creat...

Junk Mail Art
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Our recycling is full of junk mail and election flyers. Hating to see all that colorful and heavy card stock paper just go to waste, we decided to create something from them. Here are the results of...

Salvaged Mixed Media Art by Dolan Geiman

We got our first Dolan Geiman piece a few years ago, and still every year since, his booth is the one we most look forward to at all the local art fairs. Using recycled paints and salvaged wood, Gei...

Twig Picture Holders by Kindling

We love the rustic simplicity of Kindling’s picture holders. In white or au naturale, we’d love a few of these display our business cards, photos, art…...

Habitat Machines: Photography by David Trautrimas

David Trautrimas’ photography focuses on visionary and futuristic cityscapes, but can you guess what the images are actually comprised of? Answer after the jump!...

Inspiration: Recycled Sculpture Show

Trash to treasure — or art, in this case. The Love London Green Festival is currently providing over two dozen artists from around the world the opportunity to showcase their recycled sculptur...

Toots & Magoo

Toots and Magoo is another one of those stores that can't be summed up in just a couple words. What do they sell? Officially, it's Art, Antiques and Paper Goods, but they are constantly evolving &md...

Caroline Saul: Recycled Plastic Milk Bottle Art

We saw this amazing bulbous vessel made from recycled milk bottles over at Design*Sponge, and were immediately taken in. The artist, Caroline Saul, is an English designer whose passion lies in crea...

The TreeHugger Project

The Treehugger Project is an ongoing international work of environmental art by Polish artists Agnieszka Gradzik and Wiktor Szostalo. Creating, quite literally, tree huggers made out of branches, l...

Another Take on the Magazine Table

Jen's magazine table was a great way to recycle those old magazines. Here's another version, a coffee table, by designer Vered Zaykovsky....

Slinks: Creative Reuse
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Wow, it’s quite the creative reuse frenzy in the blogosphere. Not only are we hosting Creative Use 2008, but we’ve been seeing great DIY repurposing around the Internet. Need some inspiration? Cli...

Art from Recycled Junk Mail by Sandhi Schimmel Gold

Believe it or not, this piece of artwork was created by the artist by hand-cutting and hand-fitting thousands of squares and shards of junk mail....

Hot or Not: Recycled Garden Art

Last week I posted on an awesome recycled fence. This weekend I decided to share a few more local finds....

Flat Pack Emergency Stool

Quick, get the emergency stool! Phew, I'm seated now... With only seconds to spare!!! Designed by d.e. Sellers, the Emergency Stool is a laser-cut piece of Baltic Birch plywood that can be displayed f...

Tichy Trash Cameras

Miroslav Tichý took up photography in the mid-1950s, building his own cameras and enlargers from shoeboxes, tin cans, recycled glass and other waste materials:The rewind mechanisms were made of elast...

Ewaste Wildlife

When old computers shut down for the last time, where do they go to die? If you can’t take your electronics to a recycling center send them to Brenda Guyton, who breathes new life into them. Brenda ...