You also might consider trying to find vinyl a little closer to home. Get the advertiser's phone number off the bottom of hwy billboards and call to see if they have vinyl you can "recycle".
ElfN
__._,_.___----- Original Message -----From: JUDITH WILLIAMSSent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:51 AMSubject: RE: [papercreters] eco- reycyled materialsI just sent an email to Nolan about the billboard tarps. I've been looking for something like this that isn't going to cost me hundereds of dollars. I've put construction on my papercrete house on hold because of the permit problems. I plan to put a tarp over the vigas (like a tent) and call it a "Party Pavillion". Seems like this would be the perfect solution especially since they can be painted. Do you think I could get them locally from a billboard company? Are they very thick and heavy? If not maybe I could put several layers? Thanks Charmaine.
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Found this article-- I think the "take" on the market is right on.. anyone remember "cocooning"? in the 1980s a trend to just stay home- cook, watch movies- hence the fancy kitchens [No one actually cooks in them- but hey- $45 K remodel with a stone mantle over a $10K gas stove- why not?] And there were "media rooms" all tv all the time-- those still rule.
But looks like that is changing too.. and for the better maybe? at least awareness of recycling, greener methods
I personally LOVE the idea of TEMPORARY house, housing,& lifestyle. I have been fiddling with the free granite I got -- I placed it on the Kitchen counter - no gluing or attachment-- just use the various colors, and swap them out, same for other things... no commitment to wall color, or method, & cardboard furniture?? it is actually **fun** to play around. Remember building a house when you were a kid? marking off rooms wth fallen leaves in the yard, putting a few cardboard boxes colored like a TV and stove in your "house? Making a home under a sheet and a table? this trend sorta reminds me of that.
( they are making bags from billboard tarps-- finally some use for the millions of square ft of ads on vinyl sitting in piles. I got mine from Nolan at www.mortarsprayer.com , and they can be used for just about anything from a temporary floor cover ( just paint the white side), roofing, drapery to block drafts in the shed, etc. get some -- the evil vinyl material is already in existence, make something good from it. (ps I paid $35. for a good UK make "leaf tote" a very large round soft polybag that can be filled with yard debris, then dragged by handle- you can do the same thing with the billboard tarps, glue, sew or staple, and they wear well. Cobbers use them to stomp clay on, they can be draped over bales to make a mud pit , cut into strips and woven thru fencing to make more privacy, on and on.
Charmaine
Eco-awareness shaping Western design
PARIS (AFP) - Recycling has long fed African and Asian markets, where cash-poor craftsmen retool tin into toys and rubber tyres into flip-flops. Now recycling is moulding design in the richer West as eco-awareness -- or eco-guilt -- shapes consumer demand.
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For the first time, this week's big Paris home show "Maison et Objet, a twice-yearly trade fair that attracts a whopping 75,000 professionals, put its spotlight on ethical issues, traceability and clean consumerism rather than froth and frivolity.
Cardboard benches, rubber-tyre pouffes and recycled glassware shared top spot with driftwood stools, recycled paper curtains and bags cut from old advertising tarpaulins.
Even the French government joined in, issuing a 50-page pamphlet in French and English that outlines the issues at stake in developing fair and ethical interior decoration.
"Times are changing," said the fair's spokeswoman Veronique Thouvenin.
"The trend is no longer on viewing the home as a closed cocoon, a refuge. Consumers now are outward-looking and want to weigh on the future of the planet."
Using a minimal amount of materials to help save the planet, France's Design Studio Lo crafted a smart DIY chair, sold as a flat panel of wood containing the parts to be assembled by the buyer - with no welding, no glue, no screws and less packaging.
It also offers felt slippers and bags sold flat and ready for assembly.
Dutch company Handed By showed its wide line of machine-washable baskets of all shapes and sizes woven from the plastic straps used to bind containers - a technique inspired from roadside ware found in Thailand a decade ago.
"This is the way to live, to not throw things away," managing director Pauline Grunberg told AFP. Sold worldwide the goods are also guaranteed 100 percent free of child labour and 100 percent handicraft.
article continues--
http://news.yahoo.com/ s/afp/20070917/ lf_afp/lifestyle design_070917135 004
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