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Being green and creative
January 13, 2010 · Posted by Cindy Sutter in Environment
We don’t have to tell you that the environmentally conscious sometimes get a bad rap. In some people’s fevered imaginings those with a greenish tinge are ascetic, sweater-clad geeks who look at the energy hogging world with a supercilious eye.
What you don’t hear much about is creativity. But that’s what students in Julee Herdt’s Green Technology class at the University of Colorado regularly employ when they head to the ReSource Yard for their class materials.
“As a society, we’re so wasteful and we forget there’s value in (discarded materials),” Herdt said.
That value might show up in coffee table made from part of an airplane wing or a table made from salvaged redwood fencing.
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