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12Society. NAVY SEAL TRAINING PROGRAM NAVY SEAL BUD/S TRAINING Extreme SEAL Experience. The Houses That PET Plastic Built. Eco-minded architects and designers are making treasure out of trash by recycling used PET bottles into beautiful, sustainable, buildings.

The Houses That PET Plastic Built

Eco-minded architects and designers are making treasure out of trash by recycling used PET bottles into beautiful, sustainable, buildings. One of the wonderful things about being recycle-minded is that every piece of trash is an opportunity to recreate something wonderful. At least, that’s the way I felt when I saw testaments to the miracle of recycling — houses, cisterns, furniture, bus stops and even entire schools — made from recycled PET plastic bottles.

Eco-tec, an award-winning Honduran company, has used recycled PET plastic bottles for construction of houses, water tanks, and even schools. Using some 8,000 PET recycled bottles, Eco-Tec created the “casa ecológica” or ecological house, as a means of providing sustainable construction methods and employment in Honduras. Ornithopter flying machine. How to Unlock a Computer Without a Password Reset Disk. Your source of daily updated funny pictures and gifs. TRIPLE-BARRELLED shotgun from 1891 goes under the hammer. By Eddie Wrenn Published: 11:37 GMT, 11 June 2012 | Updated: 06:42 GMT, 12 June 2012 Even if we have never touched one, most of us will have seen a double-barrelled shotgun in a movie or two.

TRIPLE-BARRELLED shotgun from 1891 goes under the hammer

IdeasIsland - make your ideas come true.    [Soft Launch] A Private Island for you to work on your ideas - where you stay for free. (Yes, for free!) - Home. 54 Half Moon Rdg, Cold Spring, NY 10516 MLS# 295397. Among 10516 homes, this home is 1211.6% more expensive than the midpoint (median) home, and is priced 179% more per square foot.

54 Half Moon Rdg, Cold Spring, NY 10516 MLS# 295397

Foreclosures will be a factor impacting home values in the next several years. In the 10516 market, the number of foreclosures waiting to be sold climbed 0.7% in the last year. The number of unsold foreclosures is 2700% greater than in Irvington, and 61.1% lower than the national average. Single Family Home for sale at 31 BROOK AVENUE, Hopewell Junction, NY, 12533. 'U' Lamp, contempory design. China Fake IDs: Homeland Security TSA Screenings May Not Catch Counterfeit Identification.

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Social networking sites. List of social networking websites. Welcome. Les Paul's 96th Birthday. Miniature Building Authority: Creating your world...one building at a time. Wood you believe it? The tent you pitch in the trees designed to help survivors of natural disasters. By Emily Allen Published: 16:17 GMT, 18 March 2012 | Updated: 16:17 GMT, 18 March 2012 Wood you believe it - this tent can be pitched in the trees.

Wood you believe it? The tent you pitch in the trees designed to help survivors of natural disasters

The extraordinary £7,500 design has been created by a British architect and can be suspended 10ft off the ground. BLANDITO. Transformable pad for lazy living on the Behance Network. Building with shipping containers - McCormack's. Recently there has been emphasis on living sustainably in shipping containers.

Building with shipping containers - McCormack's

I for one feel that this is an alternative that people should not ignore. You can buy containers for less than $2k from a place like drybox.com. There are manageable challenges when it comes to using shipping containers as a dwelling. Containers need to be lifted above the ground onto a foundation to keep the steel away from moist soil.The containers will need to be cut open for doors and windows, this probably requires acetylene torch cutting with further grinding.

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