Imagine a series of massage therapy clinics using 100% recycled materials and all natural/organic ingredients!
Massage is the one profession poised to lead this gentle living movement.
Attached is a great story about re-using so much of what is wasted: Click here for the full story.
When it comes to architecture, sustainability and affordability can mean many things: Salvaged wood becomes new flooring, old newspapers are shredded into insulation.
But a few architects are taking green building one step further: creating entire homes and businesses out of discarded shipping containers — an approach some have dubbed “cargotecture.”
Approximately a quarter-million shipping containers pass through Oregon’s Port of Portland each year. These are big boxes — 40 feet long and weighing thousands of pounds.
“As you look across the container terminal here, they look like giant, multicolored Legos stacked up out there,” says port spokesman Josh Thomas. Each one is full of cargo moving in or out of the Portland region.
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/30/153574677/forget-big-box-stores-how-about-a-big-box-house?ft=3&f=111787346&sc=nl&cc=es-20120603
