A mini PAC is perfect for eating PJ & Js on! I was eating one too, but had to take this picture! RG is still here people…just pre-occupado, sorry!

Aurash Khawarzad, from DoTank in Brooklyn was recently interviewed by the Huffington Post for his work in urban renewal. Check out the article and see the PAC chairs used in his famous, Chair Bombing project. In addition, DoTank and the Chair Bombing project will be shown at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the U.S. Pavillion. Hot stuff for DoTank and by proxy, Repurposed Goods!

The Mini PAC Guide cover page! It is in the works and made just for the kiddos. Parents, you will need to help with this project but PLEASE let them paint it. Finger painting is highly encouraged!

Another way to purchase the PAC DIY Guide directly from Repurposed Goods! (Thank you PulleyApp!)

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Builders building everywhere! Fiona from the Netherlands made her PAC in what seems to be 10 minutes. She bought the PAC guide from StoreEnvy, we sent it out and BLAMMO here is a picture of her pups and new PAC chair. She is quick! Awesome job Fiona, looking forward to your next PAC build!

WINNER WINNER WINNER!! 

Louise Van Stuyvesant Meijen of South Africa won the Africa division of the “Be the First PAC Builder on your Continent Contest”! Excited and ready to build she quickly received a Pallet Adirondack Chair PDF DIY Guide and has a paper PAC DIY Guide, stickers, Sidney Birdhouse and other preliminary guides on the way to her amazing family residence in the Munyawana reserve that lies in the northern corner of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

She wasted no time and already has one PAC built with the help of her pups (obviously). Check out the pictures of her family house as well as the amazing sites she gets to see right in her own backyard on her website, BushDiaries. I must visit!!

Gabe Landes recently guided a group of students coined as “Team Chair” through the Pallet Adirondack Chair build process for Asheville’s Green Opportunities Program. Here is a snippet from Gabe’s description of the day,

“I only had 3 students on day 1. The other students (those working on the compost bin and the picnic table) were making fun of the chair. Kept saying it looked like junk and was gonna fall apart.  

We finished the first chair on day 1. The naysayers were impressed, said the chair was really comfortable. They called it the “chair that makes you want to stop working”. Team chair felt a great sense of accomplishment. One day two, all the students jumped in on two more chairs. The students from team chair on day 1 were teaching the other students how to make the PAC, how to read the plans. It was great to see.”

Awesome work Gabe and “Team Chair”. Helping people learn new skills is the ultimate goal of Repurposed Goods so if there are any other opportunities out there like this please feel free to contact me!

GE’s #TagYourGreenMap is a great way to see  your community’s sustainable effort. If you built a #PAC, map it up! @GaTech, where you at?!

After a whirlwind (BTW, I thought it was world wind when I was a kid!) of activity with the Southern Design Concern we have been able to re-coop and start back on some RG stuff. First task, getting Derek “Deek” Diedricksen ready for his Boston based workshop. He will be teaching people the ins and outs of building TINY HOUSES and how to build a PAC! He is phenomenal at sourcing random things and hammering them together to make cozy cottages but as LaVar Burton always told me, “But you don’t have to take my word for it!” (His work and LaVar would approve, it’s a book!)

RepurposedGoods is again showing off stuff with the crew from HOMEGROWN in Nashville’s first Saturday art crawl this weekend. Here are the details!

Track 13 Gallery at Cummins Station in Nashville, TN
Reception is June 4th, 2011 from 6-10pm part of Nashville’s first Saturday art crawl!!