Receipt Notebook

If you're anything like me, you use your card to pay for EVERYTHING. Living in a big city, I just feel a little more safe not having to carry cash around...even though I carry around my iPhone, and sometimes my laptop...but no cash! Anyways, it's also just a hassle to have to find the right ATM all the time or pay $2.00 charges at everyone else's ATM's. The consequence of always using your credit card is the mound of receipts you quickly obtain every time you buy something, and being a preservationist, I hate the thought of wasting paper every time I buy lunch. I understand that some people may save their receipts for accounting purposes but I keep track of all my expenses online these days. So I had to come up with a use for all these receipts. So let's see...they are small, hand held size, usually have one blank side...you may see where I am going with this. An on the go notebook! This way, every time you buy something, instead of wasting paper, you're adding paper to your mini sketchbook! If you want to get all trendy with it, you can take an altoids can, or any variety of metal candy tin and store them in there. Maybe it's a stretch but I'm just telling you what I do. I know journals and sketchbooks can be very personal but I can never seem to stick to one journal. The used receipt does not confine me to pages, I can change the order, I can organize my notes, I can pin it up on my wall, etc...it's just my style, it doesn't have to be yours...




I carry 4 things on me at all times:

iPhone (phone, mp3, calender, web, video, camera, etc...)
Pen
Receipt Notebook
Wallet

With my Iphone, I suppose you could do this with any phone too, I don't take business cards, I simply put all the contact information given and immediately enter it into my contacts list then hand them back their business card. I know, I know...one might think it's a bit extreme, but if you consider the amount of receipts and business cards one consumes in a year, you might be surprised at how wasteful we can be. And I am quite aware that there are much larger problems out there to be solved, but I believe that sustainability is a lifestyle and it should effect everything you do, at least when you call it your profession....

Greening Green

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"Jeff Gallo of Minneapolis is trying to build a green house. The zoning bylaws were no help, but after a quick redesign by John Dwyer of Shelter Architecture he is on his way and intermittently blogs it for our viewing pleasure."1 It's great to see they are taking the time to blog about the adventure they have embarked on; it allows the public a little porthole into the trials and tribulations of building a green home and also how satisfying it can be when construction is complete. It's great documentation as well as an educational tool. I wish someone blogged about the construction of my apartment complex, tho I don't know that SOM had computers in 1956...Anyways John and Jeff posted an image of there on-site dumpster which was impressively bare, as seen here.

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Looking at this picture, all I could think of was, those truss ends look really cool, I bet somehow they could still be used. So I designed a shelving unit out of the materials I counted in the image:

12 Truss ends
1 sheet 3/4" plywood (guessing)

Marker Sketch

3D Sketch

Elevation + Objects

Some might say it's nit picky to say even the smallest scraps should be used, but imagine if your site didn't even need a construction dumpster. No truck to bring it in, no truck to take it out, virtually no waste to the landfill. That would be pretty amazing. That aside, what makes this idea green?:

a. 1 left shelving unit that has to be made out of raw materials then shipped to the site (carbon footprint + deforestation, etc.)

b. less materials headed for landfills.

What makes this idea

No discredit to John and Jeff's efforts by any means, their building is Platinum baby! Keep up the great work guys. LEED Certified doesn't mean anything these days, but this, Platinum, is the real deal.

1 Quote from Treehugger

2 Image from 5ive