Please Support the Full Life-Cycle of Materials

This is a great opportunity for your voice to make a difference and get the climate impacts of products and packaging added to the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory.

It's important to get the full life-cycle of materials (from research & extraction through retail) included here so that we have strong data to support our claim that reuse is a higher and better use than recycling and raw goods.

Please visit the EPA site and leave a comment in support of DECONSTRUCTION & REUSE!

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2010 Alt Build Expo is Coming

The Seventh Annual City of Santa Monica AltBuild Expo is the largest green building
expo in Southern California. It is a two-day event featuring alternative building materials
and design, returning to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Friday and Saturday, May 7-
8, 2010 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. each day. The Expo is free and open to the public and will
include over 150 carefully selected exhibitors, all chosen for their work, representing the
best in Green Building & Design Materials; Energy – Efficiencies and Alternatives; Best
Green Practices in Water Conversation; Environmental Plumbing; Sustainable
Landscaping and more.

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Deconstruction & ReUse Network Launches this week at Alt Build Expo in Santa Monica, Calif.

Visit their website for more.