Good Question: Green Grenier?

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Apparently, Adrian Grenier wants to know your most creative ideas for this question:
How can you transform something that would thrown away into something useful or decorative?
An explanation -- and a few links for inspiration -- after the jump.

Here's the scoop: Kristina, a good friend of ours is auditioning for a role on Adrian Grenier's new show for the Discovery Channel. From what we understand, it's the one mentioned in this Ecorazzi post, where a green team will upgrade any space where people spend more than 12 hours per day. Now that's one way to think about home!

So, what do you think she should bring to the audition? It's tomorrow, so expedience is key. We've got a few ideas from past posts:

How to: Make Lidmen

More How To posts from ohdeedoh

or, how about a systematized way to keep leftovers out of the trash by turning them into meals or non-smelly compost?

We've also noticed that just managing all that stuff you're not supposed to put in the trash is a real problem. We'd certainly welcome solutions to that problem!

AT Readers: what ideas for reuse do you have that are ready for TV?

Photo by Joseph Maida for Newsweek: see AT:NY's post on Bonded Logic Cotton Insulation

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Sunset Scavenger in San Francisco has an artist in residence program where they give a grant to various artists and a studio space. The artists are given free reign of the dump where SF's garbage is dropped off and make art from what they find. The art is usually really great and thought provoking.

Another great product that is sort of made from reuse is flooring made from Berkeley's Eucalyptus trees which are cut down because they are invasive trees. The flooring is beautiful, local to the SF Bay Area, and the trees would have to be cut down anyway.