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Jan 28, 2011

"A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy." --John Sawhill

Building Green Houses from Garbage

Texas home builder Dan Phillips transforms trash into artful treasures, creating intricate floor mosaics with wood scraps, kitchen counters from ivory-colored bones and roofs out of license plates. The fantastical houses which spring from his imagination cost as little as $10,000 and are made almost entirely with materials which would otherwise have ended up in a garbage dump.