Heather Watts has developed a wild and beautiful style drawn from natural and supernatural worlds. Her paintings are in a dreamlike vintage-inspired landscape complimented by gorgeous frames often made from reclaimed, distressed materials. More

TorZo Surface, a division of Oregon-based company Specialty Polymers, manufactures sustainable durable surface products. TorZo's six product lines—Indure, Orient, Seeta, Durum, Tiikeri, and Norfolk Pine— are all made with some combination of recycled, formaldahyde-free material and non-hazardous acrylic polymers. More

We've heard plastic bags take 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill. We don't know if that's an exact number, but there's no doubt that plastic bags are a huge drain on resources and a major environmental concern. Look to these biodegradable and compostable options instead:

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You can get organized in style without spending much money. Here are a four stylish and recycled items that you can get for very little or no money. More

Newsworthy is the latest wallpaper from textile and product designer Lori Weitzner, and it's made from strips of recycled newspaper that are woven together to create a textural surface. It's a beautiful and interesting tactile experience. More

We have posted about neat recycling bins before... including one that made a waste bin out of used paper. The e-Bin, a runner up in "The 4th Bin" design competition, is the first recycling bin concept that we've seen that has an integrated touchscreen. Created by London based designer Baharash Bagherian, e-Bin is designed for recycling electronics. How fitting that something designed for the recycling of electronics should be fairly tech'd out itself, no? More

We hadn't really thought of IKEA's Trofast system as something to use outside of a kid's room until a reader mentioned repurposing it as a recycling station. Since then, we've noticed lots of different recycling ideas within the IKEA catalog, some of them obvious and some not so much... More

We have discovered that often, when we find a tutorial on how to turn something into something else, it looks a little...well...crafty. That's why, when we discovered this vase on WikiHow, we were instantly smitten. It's elegant enough to find pride of place on our coffee or dining room table. Once you get the hang of the technique, it's a project we could easily see making as gifts More

Although this isn't yet a fully developed application for homes, it might become at some point in the future. We were really amazed at how this Japanese machine could turn discarded paper into toilet paper.

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The Los Angeles Times L.A. at Home blog had this great heads up post about a water recycling technology solution which could result in saving 5 gallons of perfect, mineral-free water for resuse in the garden daily straight from your air conditioner unit: the Airigator.
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