ANEW (Full Film) from Change For Balance Productions on Vimeo.
Soon after meeting Rose Tourje and hearing her story, we knew it needed to be made into a documentary. We hit the ground running and began production immediately. Utilizing Roseʼs network of non-profit and for profit businesses, we put together a 10-minute documentary that aims to positively change how waste is viewed in the Architecture, Design and Building industries.
ANEW was founded by Rose seven years ago after she realized how much waste and lack of awareness about it there was in the architecture, building, design industries. She quit her high paying job and set out with a plan to change the way the industries and the public looked at surplus furniture, waste, and supporting charities. With a small staff of four, ANEW manages to keep over 1,000,000 lbs of furniture out of Americaʼs landfills every year, and has provided over 500 non-profit organizations furniture and supplies to support their endeavors.
Since our meeting less than six months ago, Roseʼs non-profit, ANEW, and Change For Balance have partnered on a campaign to raise awareness about what is taking place, inspire others to join her Social Sustainability movement, and create a new environment of sustainability and community support. The documentary has led to two successful fundraising events at the Smog Shoppe in Los Angeles and the Orange County Museum of Art, where the films were premiered. The film was then screened at FIDM to future designers in Los Angeles followed by a talk by Rose about sustainability and the work ANEW does.
Just starting the film festival circuit, the film was Winner of the "ECO Award" at the Awareness Festival, was Awarded Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Award of Excellence at the LA Movie Awards, and was an official selection at the Catalina Film Festival, and the FILManthropy Film Festival.
Most recently, ANEW and Change For Balance went to NEOCON in Chicago, the biggest interiors tradeshow of the year. There they made their rounds meeting with and interviewing leaders from businesses such as: Bentley Prince Street, Teknion, Kimball Office, AIS, InstallNet, Knoll, as well as the US Green Building Council.
ANEW and Change For Balance have more intriguing projects on the horizon which will be announced shortly.
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Mor Furniture for Less Opens 2 Greater Palm Springs Area Furniture Stores - StreetInsider.com
SAN DIEGO, June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --After more than 35 years in Southern California, Mor Furniture for Less continues its West Coast expansion into a new market with two new home furniture retail locations in the Greater Palm Springs Area of the Coachella Valley.
Following the April 2012 Grand Opening of the company's 24th store in Lynnwood, Washington, Mor Furniture for Less launched a Rancho Mirage showroom in May, just in time for the Memorial Day shopping weekend. The company's 26th showroom, located just six miles away in Cathedral City, opens today, commencing a Double Grand Opening celebration before the 4th of July holiday.
The Rancho Mirage furniture store, at 72115 Highway 111, offers the most exclusive collections of the current Mor Furniture for Less product lineup in adult and kids furniture. Products range from designers like AICO, including the new Hollywood Swank collection from Michael Amini and actress Jane Seymour, to the complete Tempur-Pedic mattress lineup.
The Cathedral City furniture store located at 67555 East Palm Canyon Drive, serves as both, a showroom for the company's main product lineup, including a Kids and Teens section and Clearance Center as well as a giant home delivery and customer pickup warehouse, serving a large area of Southern California.
There has never been a furniture store in the Desert like Mor Furniture for Less as the company aims to bring its concept of offering the best value in quality furniture to an all-new market, offering complimentary fresh-baked cookies, popcorn, soda and coffee while shoppers browse the expansive furniture selection.
Mor Furniture for Less is a Southern California based company, but an all-new Palm Springs furniture retailer, occupying two prominent, formerly vacant retail spaces and creating additional 40-50 much-needed jobs for the area.
Mor Furniture for Less, established in 1977, is the largest family-owned and operated furniture company on the West Coast with 26 stores in 7 states, offering the best value in bedroom, living room, kids and teens furniture, dining furniture and mattresses.
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Source: www.streetinsider.com
Outdoor Furniture Company Invests in High Tech Equipment to Boost Customer Choice - YAHOO!
Having been in the outdoor furniture market since 1990, the Garden Furniture Centre Ltd has decided to invest in high tech laser controlled engraving equipment. This now enables the company to offer a unique and affordable new engraving service to its customers at an affordable price.
Solihull, West Midlands (PRWEB UK) 21 June 2012
Choosing high quality garden furniture is a real must for the discerning customer looking to ensure durability and a unique style in their choice of outdoor furniture. The company has continued to expand the range of its wooden garden furniture products in particular. As a result, it has found a real demand for creating a bespoke choice for the customer in a unique laser engraving option.To satisfy this demand for creating unique products for customers, a considerable investment in the latest state-of-the-art laser cutting equipment has been made. Many products within the wooden garden furniture range are now available with an engraving that can include images as well.
Garden products that are ideal for laser engraving include many of the outdoor furniture range with wooden garden benches being the popular choice. Within this popular range the stand-out selection for customers has been the teak benches and many of the FSC approved garden benches.
Choosing an engraving as part of a garden benches package is as simple as ticking a box on the company’s easy to use website. For that extra personal touch a customer can create their own message in a choice of fonts. It is also possible to add an image of their choice; perhaps a family crest or a coat of arms.
Jon Haimes, the company’s Managing Director, said, “Trained and skilled operators will take the customer’s bench engraving order and set the highly accurate laser guided cutting machine into action. This amazing carving process ensures a perfect finish every time and all messages are made with millimetre precision.”
The current video shows the company’s traditional lathe engraving capabilities and this will be updated with a new laser etching video release.
Offering this bespoke engraving option has become a real opportunity for retail customers to buy a high quality garden bench and create a unique message at the same time. The engravings can often be included as part of a gift or for more traditional memorial benches. The company also offers a wooden sign engraving service to businesses to help promote their brand.
A customer now has the choice to add this high quality service to a simple garden bench seats or perhaps to something that little bit special; a luxury hardwood garden bench.
As the engraving service expands there are plans to extend this bespoke service across many of the company’s outdoor garden furniture UK range.
Additional Contact information -
Public Showroom: Yew Tree Farm Craft Centre, Wootton Wawen, Solihull, West Midlands B95 6BY.
Brochure Request: gardenfurniturecentre.co.uk/acatalog/request-brochure.html
Adrian Kelly
The Garden Furniture Centre Ltd
01564793652
Email Information
Source: news.yahoo.com
The build-it-yourself doll's house with working circuits that aims to boost young girls' interest in technology - Daily Mail
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Three female students from Stanford University have redefined the doll's house by designing a build-it-yourself version with circuit boards for lighting fixtures, fans and other electrically charged features.
The trio behind Roominate conceived of the idea as a way to draw young girls towards careers in innovation and technology, a field that is currently dominated by men.
Detachable, stackable pieces of wood are attached to create walls and furniture while fabrics, figurines and stickers decorate the rooms and circuit components bring the structure to life.
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More than just a toy: Roominate, a build-it-yourself doll's house incorporates circuit boards for electricity in the hopes of inspiring young girls to pursue careers in the sciences
Innovation: Thanks to easy-to-put together electrical components, lights can be switched on and fans can whir in the rooms
The idea for the interactive doll's house was born when the trio, Alice Brooks, Jennifer Kessler and Bettina Chen, noticed the overwhelming majority of boys in their science and maths classes.
On closer inspection, statistics proved that only 15per cent of female first year college students were hoping to major in what they call STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).
Students of mechanical engineering design, business and electrical engineering respectively, they recalled how their own childhood games of Lego-building and solving mathematical equations for fun led them to the sciences as adults.
But when they looked around at the toys targeted at young girls today they saw only 'dolls and princesses'.
Miniature perfect: Tiny stackable pieces of wood can be slotted together to make walls and furniture while decorating can be inventive with fabrics, stickers and tiny figurines
Pioneers: Stanford students Alice Brooks, Jennifer Kessler and Bettina Chen conceived of Roominate after noticing the overwhelming majority of boys in their science and maths classes
Roominate, they believe fills a gap in the market for the kinds of toys that can make 'every young girl an artist, an engineer, an architect, and a visionary!'
The three founders hope to inspire, excite and build confidence among young girls who might later be attracted to STEM because of the early exposure to such innovative and creative game-playing.
So far they have worked with over 200 girls between the ages of six and ten who have experimented and built structures both with and without adult guidance.
The results have been illuminating, they explain on a Kickstarter page set up to raise money for development, research and manufacturing opportunities.
The bare necessities: The three founders hope that by playing with Roominate, young girls between the ages of six and ten will be inspired to learn more about engineering and technology
Research: The students started a Kickstarter page so they could continue developing the project and watching how young girls interacted with the product and have already raised $85,000
Like this: Manufacturing begins this summer and there is already a waiting list for the customers excited to build their own Roominate structures
The wrote: 'Provide a girl with a buzzer and a motor, and she's decided her room is a restaurant, with the motor serving as a fan to cool patrons and the buzzer being used by the chef when an order is ready.
'Provide a girl with a set of animal stickers, and her room becomes a pet shop, complete with dog beds and animal food bowls.'
So far Roominate has raised $61,000 more than the $25,000 its founders felt they needed to keep developing the product and eventually facilitate its mass production.
'Manufacturing will begin this summer,' they told MailOnline adding: 'Since our Kickstarter ended on Saturday, we've been getting constant requests from people who missed the deadline.'
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
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