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Date: 6/9/2008
Author: Public Relations
Recent Product Design graduate, Amelia Amelia (known as Amelia LNU), has received a Sustainable Steward Award for Personal Development for her thesis project "{UN}WANTED: Salvaging & Recycling of Furniture for New York City.” Sustainable Stewards are individuals who are setting an example towards community building efforts, sustainable development initiatives, and environmental preservation projects.
Amelia’s project is now an organization that collects unwanted and damaged furniture from the streets of New York to be repurposed and transformed into new pieces of furniture. {UN}WANTED was co-founded by other designers who have helped develop the project into a creative lab that welcomes the community to volunteer, collaborate, and learn. The mission of the group is to challenge current perceptions of products and aesthetics through unique assemblages of salvaged furniture and to offer a creative solution to furniture waste.{UN}Wanted offers a new kind of industrial process for a more sustainable future, while involving the community to leave their passive and consumptive attitude behind.
The awards, which went to eight recipients this year, are given by Sustainable Styles, a global magazine that covers conscious consumer solutions and provides information on sustainable consumer lifestyle solutions. Sustainable Styles is created and managed by Pamela Peeters, producer and host of the TV show Our Planet. Peters also founded the Sustainable Planet Film Festival with UNESCO in 2005, and this year’s festival is being held in conjunction with the awarding of The Sustainable Stewards. Amelia will receive her distinction at the festival on June 10 at the Chelsea Art Museum. For more information, please visit http://www.sustainablestyles.com
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