Joel_BC
Super Self-Sufficient
http://inhabitat.com/index.php?s=upcycled
I was searching the Web trying to find good repurposing & upcycling sites. I found this one, above, that has some real interesting ideas.
Here's an interesting page about the re-purposing of containers to make shelter:
http://inhabitat.com/stacked-shippi...alaysia/malaysian-container-home-10/?extend=1
This site goes more in the direction of art, decorative, and craft. Very imaginative:
http://www.recyclart.org/
Scroll down the page about 3/4 of the way and you get the option to see many more examples on pages 2, 3, 4, etc.
On the lighter side, here's some meaty design and repurposing - toward the goal of a functional "bridging machine" that can be moved into place and put a 16-foot temporary bridge across a chasm, such as a creek. "Serious" in terms of something that will work, but entertaining in presentation, as it's a contest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pso_ijy-h9A
On mchine is moorized, the other human-powered. This is about a 45-minute vid. It's from a TV show called Scrapheap Challenge, from the UK. It's interesting and enjoyable to watch, maybe especially if you like British-style fun and documentary! But if you want to "cut to the chase", you'll find the whole end result of the design and building processes in the last nine minutes. (If you liked, you could download the vid, set it for replay after its first go-through, advance the playback redline, and then turn up the sound just for the last portion.)
There's a lot of junk around in the world, as we all know. Re-purposing and upcycling make a lot of sense. I know a lot of people here at SS re-purpose as a matter of course.
Got any good Web sites to share? Got some pics to post?
I was searching the Web trying to find good repurposing & upcycling sites. I found this one, above, that has some real interesting ideas.
Here's an interesting page about the re-purposing of containers to make shelter:
http://inhabitat.com/stacked-shippi...alaysia/malaysian-container-home-10/?extend=1
This site goes more in the direction of art, decorative, and craft. Very imaginative:
http://www.recyclart.org/
Scroll down the page about 3/4 of the way and you get the option to see many more examples on pages 2, 3, 4, etc.
On the lighter side, here's some meaty design and repurposing - toward the goal of a functional "bridging machine" that can be moved into place and put a 16-foot temporary bridge across a chasm, such as a creek. "Serious" in terms of something that will work, but entertaining in presentation, as it's a contest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pso_ijy-h9A
On mchine is moorized, the other human-powered. This is about a 45-minute vid. It's from a TV show called Scrapheap Challenge, from the UK. It's interesting and enjoyable to watch, maybe especially if you like British-style fun and documentary! But if you want to "cut to the chase", you'll find the whole end result of the design and building processes in the last nine minutes. (If you liked, you could download the vid, set it for replay after its first go-through, advance the playback redline, and then turn up the sound just for the last portion.)
There's a lot of junk around in the world, as we all know. Re-purposing and upcycling make a lot of sense. I know a lot of people here at SS re-purpose as a matter of course.
Got any good Web sites to share? Got some pics to post?
There's nothing interesting to me in the first few sentences on that page... but those sentences are not why I posted the link for the site. 
