The Eco-Logical Home is a weekly podcast program exploring sustainability and creating healthy, energy efficient, and joyful places to live. Host Terry Phelan interviews guests that practice ways to design, organize, build, and maintain healthy, comfortable, and resilient places to live – and she recently interviewed The RE Store’s Bray Hayden, Seattle Outreach, Marketing & Development Manager about our stores and our field services. Take a listen!
It is a two part podcast – you can link directly to them here and here – and then peruse the rest of Terry’s great topics, ranging from solar technologies to permaculture and rain gardens, and lots in between! Thanks so much for having us, Terry!
Bray Hayden - surrounded by her Seattle store crew
The RE Store has a long history of bootstrapping its own projects and innovations. We have had very few grants over the years. The few we have been awarded were focused on research and development of creative ways to reclaim more materials from the flood stage waste stream that we are drowning in. We already save the equivalent of 5 fully loaded Boeing 747′s per year (over 4,500,000 pounds) and are constantly pushing for more.
Eberhard discusses techniques of turning a hollow core door into furniture with Alcoa Foundation members
Our REvision Division program was started in 2012 with our own precious capital in this challenging economy. Now the Alcoa Foundation has seen fit to support our efforts. The injection of these funds will be used to further improve our education and sharing of ideas that will reduce waste, save you money, and hopefully even help you feel good about growing your do-it-yourself attitude, if you aren’t already a DIY rock star.
Watch this short video with Kurt Gisclair, Director of The RE Store, talking about the 3 main goals of the REvision Division. Josh Wilund, Public Affairs Manager for Alcoa, then goes on to talk about how The RE Store is setting benchmarks for other organizations like Alcoa with reuse, salvage, green demolition aka deconstruction, and more. Josh disclosed that he is a regular shopper and donates materials to The RE Store. When Josh and the Alcoa Foundation team looked deeper into the statistics and metrics of our programs and our proposal to move the ball down the field, that they saw how much of an example The RE Store is setting. The non-profit organization is doing salvage, resale, job training and education and more. The Bellingham and Seattle-based org is continuing to reach out in 2012 with an all-new The RE Store Certified program, the 11th annual Recycled Arts Show, and much more.
Are you curious to see how local businesses have incorporated reclaimed materials into their projects? Do you like to support businesses that are taking steps to be responsible stewards of this beautiful place where we live? The RE Store Certified Program is scratching the back of progressive local businesses. The non-profit organization is launching a [...]
Eberhard Eichner of The RE Store’s REvision Division walks you through the process of designing and building two different styles of freestanding bookshelves. Eberhard covers fastening with easy screw and plug construction. Learn ways make your bookshelf solid and fit against walls with base trim or windows. Learn more about the REvision Division, view the [...]
We cannot fully express our gratitude to the City Year gang that had a day of service with us here at the Seattle store Monday, December 19th! An incredibly energetic and positive group of 45 corps members took on many of our ‘wish list’ projects in the store, in the offices and in our back [...]
The RE Store is welcoming submissions for the 2012 11th Annual Recycled Arts Show, to be be held in April of 2012. Galleries in Seattle and Bellingham, Washington will host month-long exhibitions of art and functional design pieces. All pieces must be made from a minimum of 75% reclaimed materials. Submissions are limited to residents [...]
As an interior designer and artist, Elizabeth Joy Clements follows the philosophy of biophilia, and is constantly thinking about ways to create with a healthy tomorrow in mind. “I believe the space we inhabit has the power to create illusions, expose the truth and question and change reality.” Clements says. These notions informed her work [...]
In this Quick Tip from our resident furniture design/build rockstar, Eberhard Eichner, learn how to turn scrap pieces of trim / molding into creative accents for cabinetry. You could apply these techniques to counters, tables, and other home decor items. Learn more about The RE Store’s REvision Division, making affordable furniture from reclaimed materials or [...]
The residents of Bellingham, Washington are passionate about using the most of what one has, while having less of an impact on the environment around them. Paul Haskins and Alaine Borgias, owners of the successful Adventures NW magazine, know firsthand about choosing options that conserve both resources and money. These native Bellingham folk live in [...]
Located in South Lake Union’s Cascade neighborhood in Seattle, the Row House Café offers a comforting sense of nostalgia in appearance and atmosphere and is known among its customers as the “neighborhood living room.” Originally built in 1904 as three row houses that offered work force housing, the structure has since been redeveloped into the [...]
