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Maritime Deconstruction

Lawmaker wants to upcycle retired aircraft carriers into Puget Sound toll bridge | MNN – Mother Nature Network

Will Bremerton, the town best known for blackberries and naval base, be home to an inlet-spanning bridge fashioned from decommissioned warships? (Photo: Clemens Vasters/flickr)

What hasn’t been done before — and what Young is pitching via a proposed $90,000 feasibility study recently introduced into the state highway budget — is a floating bridge built entirely from repurposed Vietnam-era aircraft carriers. Channeling Xerxes, Young envisions a string (well, just three) of these retired — mothballed, technically — Navy vessels, each a little over 1,000-feet-long, spanning Sinclair Inlet.

via Lawmaker wants to upcycle retired aircraft carriers into Puget Sound toll bridge | MNN – Mother Nature Network.

Reuse Design

Recycling old wood into new heirlooms | Arts | Pique Newsmagazine | Whistler, CANADA

PHOTO SUBMITTED - Whistler show Burns Jennings, right, made a key-card return box, above, which led to an exvhibition of his furniture.

WHISTLER SHOW Burns Jennings, right, made a key-card return box, above, which led to an exhibition of his furniture.

As well as found wood or wood that “drops by,” Jennings also follows a hydro pole protection program on Bowen Island. Any trees that come down because they are in danger of falling onto a hydro line are converted into furniture via his mill.

He uses large pieces of driftwood from the beach, too.

The result is, to say the least, sculptural.

via Recycling old wood into new heirlooms | Arts | Pique Newsmagazine | Whistler, CANADA.

Reuse Design

The Modern Seaweed House by Vandkunsten and Realdania

Turns out seaweed is fireproof and has a life expectancy of 150 years. It is also a good insulator. These are just some of the facts you will learn if you visit DeZeen Magazine’s article on The Modern Seaweed House.

The Modern Seaweed House by Vandkunsten and Realdania

The Modern Seaweed House revisits the traditional construction method in Læsø, where for many centuries trees were scarce but seaweed has always been abundant on the beaches. At one stage there were hundreds of seaweed-clad houses on the island but now only around 20 remain, which prompted Realdania Byg to initiate a preservation project.

The Modern Seaweed House

The Modern Seaweed House by Vandkunsten and Realdania

The Modern Seaweed House by Vandkunsten and Realdania

Don’t miss this amazing article via The Modern Seaweed House by Vandkunsten and Realdania.

Maritime Deconstruction

Interface To Recycle Discarded Fishing Nets Into Carpet | Sustainable Brands

Global carpet tile manufacturer Interface, Inc. will soon begin using discarded fishing nets to make carpets, bringing both conservation and socioeconomic benefits to some of the world’s poorest coastal communities.

The company recently completed a pilot project, called Net-Works, with conservation charity the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). By establishing a community-based supply chain for discarded nets, Net-Works aims to improve the livelihood of local fishers, while providing Interface with an innovative source of recycled materials for its carpet tiles.

Discarded nets on the beaches or in the sea have a detrimental effect on the environment and marine life as they can persist for centuries. But most nylon from these fishing nets is the same material used to make carpet yarn.

The viability of the collaboration was proven between June and October 2012. After conducting research and working closely with local communities and NGOs, Net-Works established the infrastructure to collect the fishing nets, gathering one ton (1,000 kg) of nets in the first month — and substantially cleaning up the beaches in four local communities near Danajon Bank, a threatened coral reef in the Philippines. Operations are now scaling up, with the intention of developing commercial carpet tiles incorporating the collected nets later this year.

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