NY Times: Among the traditional brick and clapboard structures that line the streets of this sleepy East Texas town, 70 miles north of Houston, a few houses stand out: their roofs are made of license plates, and their windows of crystal platters. They are the creations of Dan Phillips, 64, who has had an astonishingly […]
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Fortune Small Business: Some people need a kick in the pants before they change course. For Carlos Salgado, 41, it took a knock on the head. In 1998, the art handler and sculptor was working at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo in New York City. One moment he was disassembling a 400-pound steel sculpture by Italian
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photo credit: *L*u*z*a* return to nature NASA has had a pee cycling concept for years now, however, it has yet to make it to the consumers shelves for general sale as the price tag on their model is $250,000. A newer model has recently been developed by Leonardo Manavella to turn your pee into drinkable water.
Washington Energy Services: An Oregon company is hoping to carve an interesting new niche for itself in the recycling industry, according to recent reports. According to the Statesman Journal newspaper, Agri-Plas is using a new process developed by Oregon State University graduate Kevin DeWitt that can break down old plastic and turn it back into
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