From lowly origins great things spring...

So style-riffic! And made from cardboard toilet paper tubes, no less!

Found at A Little Hut and Photo JoJo.

More uses for them bottles of plastic

This house was built in Honduras out of 8 thousand plastic bottles filled with mud and bound together with cement. My gosh I am feeling such an itch to make a structure of some sort like this, at least a teeny tiny one, it almost feels like a no-brainer, but I do have a fear of botching it and creating a horrendous eye sore of some sort in my backyard. But I probably will take a stab at it one of these days.

This next one was built by a math professor in Serbia out of 13,500 plastic bottles and just a little cement! I think we may have stumbled upon the new brick. AND they're all over the place. AND they're free! Forget Home Depot. Go clean up the creek, and build a house out of what you find. It's the wave of the future.






A Solar Powered Toy Car (Handmade) - video powered by Metacafe


All this I found on Ecoble.

Eco-crafts at The Long Thread

In honor of Earth Day, The Long Thread had a whole bunch of tutorials about crafting green and re-using materials to get crafty and all that, and they're REALLY fantastic and inspiring. Find them here and here.

I feel kind of like a heel, just collecting these little tidbits off of other blogs. I need to get back to doing some inventing and building my own self. In the meantime, I'll collect here at Mungo only the absolute best for your reusing pleasure. Nothing like this. Blech.

Reusing is great and everything, and plastic bags are ubiquitous, but come on now people. That's revolting.

For your mailing envelope pleasure

I thought this was rather brilliant. I am loathe to buy mailing envelopes but I'm also not very good at saving ones I've received and squirreling them away... better just to make them on an as-needed basis. And with the ubiquitous brown paper bag, no less.

Found at Crafting a Greener World.

As if living in Hawaii wasn't awesome enough....

...they went and built a funky house out of all scraps and findings.

This woman inherited some land from her father in Hawaii, but didn't have much money to invest on building a house.... $500!!!!!! That is so inspiring. Let nothing stop you from building the house of your dreams, people, that's even way less than the houses of Dan Phillips.

I know it's a little small to see clearly, but one main wall is made from wine bottles set in concrete, the steps are made from old windsurf boards, and the crowning eclectic touch is that their bed is in the flatbed of an old pickup truck.

Brilliant. If you inherit land in Hawaii, let nothing stop you from moving there pronto.

This from the pages of Dwell magazine, house built by Chelsea and Bill Kohl.

airplane reuse

Don't chuck that old aircraft! There's plenty of life in the little lady yet.

what to do with those darn sody pop bottles?

Why build a house of course!

They built this in Brazil, more about it here.

And of course there's plenty to object to that these exist at all in such vast quantities... check out this trailer of a doc about the odious bottled water industry.