Trash for Teaching collects clean and safe cast-off materials from manufacturing processes (that would otherwise become trash) and repurposes them as educational resources.  With those materials Trash for Teaching provides a comprehensive arts education program in local school districts, which includes teacher workshops and classroom instruction. Their programs feature the popular Treasure Truck visit making materials readily available to teachers and students in the schools, and helping to bridge the gap between the excess of waste created in manufacturing processes and the lack of materials in public education.
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Flagstaff, Ariz. – With an anticipated growth rate of 90 to 100 percent in 2009, Southwest Windpower, the world’s largest manufacturer of small wind generators, is expanding internationally to increase production, distribution and better meet customer demand, including a joint venture in China and a new warehouse and distribution center in Germany.
Southwest Windpower seized the opportunity to develop a strong presence in China by partnering with Yunsheng, a Ningbo-based manufacturing company who has been producing component parts for several Southwest Windpower products for the last four years. The joint venture …

The BaSiC Initiative is a collaboration of faculty and students from the University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture. We support community partnerships through: housing solutions for Native Americans, housing and community services for migrant farm workers, schools and health clinics in central Mexico, etc. Each program draws upon the unique relationship of communities to their environment, finding solutions that embrace appropriate technologies while reinforcing local values to spur self-initiated development.
The BaSiC initiative offers students a variety of design/build opportunities. The Mexico Program occurs during the winter quarter in …