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PSE’s Re-Energized by Design winners – designing around reuse

May 5, 2013

Scott and Nia Sayers spent the last six months winning a competition that remodeled their home’s interior, benefitted their family and their professional lives, all while designing around reuse. That contest was Puget Sound Energy’s Re-Energized by Design challenge that pitted six households against each other in a contest that we quote here from the PSE [...]

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Building Deconstruction, Green Demolition and Decon ’13

April 29, 2013

If someone asked you what deconstruction is, would you respond: A complex philosophical movement about meaning that started in France in the 1960′s A new way of salvaging construction supplies from structures that are being demolished The age-old method of recovering useful building materials from an existing building If you answered 3, you are correct. [...]

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Fire Fighter Forcible Entry Training With Reclaimed Doors

September 25, 2012

The Bellingham Fire Department was established in 1904. Their well-seasoned department supports fire fighter training for many of the districts in Whatcom County Washington. Annual “Forcible Entry Training” uses props to simulate locked buildings that the crews must break into, in case a fire requires rescue access to the inside of a building. The Bellingham [...]

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Appliance Soap Box Derby video – crashes, injuries & mayhem

August 23, 2012

Our friends at Appliance Depot know how to have a good time, even if it means spilling a little blood. Refrigerators, stoves, washers and random appliance parts became vehicles racing down Maple Street in Bellingham. The annual Appliance Art Revival & Derby celebrates reuse, creativity and the good work that Appliance Depot does, rebuilding appliances [...]

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Mainstreaming Green Demolition and Reuse With Tom Napier

August 3, 2012

Tom Napier has a big brain. He works as a “Research Architect” for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center / Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. He has also served as president of the national Building Materials Reuse Association, and is involved in the Design-Build Institute of America and Construction Specifications Institute. Based [...]

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Creative reuse and shocking mermaids at 9 Blue Salon

May 18, 2012

Barret Lizza bootstrapped the start up of his hair salon in Bellingham, alone, on an extremely small budget, in less than a month.  He signed the lease for “9 Blue Salon” around Christmas of 2011 and spent a crazy month on non-stop remodeling madness, by himself, hauling all of the materials on top of his [...]

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Gourmet locavores and reclaimed materials at The Willows Inn

April 16, 2012

The Willows Inn on Lummi Island has leapt into the national gourmet food limelight in the last 18 months, under the culinary guidance of Olympia born, 25-year old acclaimed chef Blaine Wetzel. A 2011 article in the New York Times, titled, “10 Restaurants Worth a Plane Ride”, placed the Willows Inn amongst the great gastronomic [...]

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The RE Store and Alcoa – supporting construction waste reduction and creative reuse

January 20, 2012

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 [...]

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The RE Store Certified Program – recognizing businesses that are making a difference

January 9, 2012

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 [...]

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Pot pies, woodshop class overachievers and reused materials

July 25, 2011

There are probably a few people out there who don’t love a good pot pie, but we haven’t found them yet. Bryce Sharp and Nathan Lowe have made a business of them at Man Pies in Bellingham. The entrepreneurial spirit abounds in these two, including a love of building, making and inventing things. Bryce had traveled [...]

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