Cork It

Cork It Recycling and reproducing with post consumer wine cork bottle stoppers. Working local, for planet profit. outcomes.

Cork It reaches an audience that is diverse and able to use the medium in a variety of ways. Cork It achieves this mandate by carrying out these three objectives. Fine Arts Objective:

Stimulating this industry with cork can create cottage level production, along with promising private ventures. Cork It builds a base of established artists and designers to start conceptualizing projects with eith

er commercial or just down right ADVENTUROUS! Stewardship Objective:

Cork It is working with The Cork Forest Conservation Alliance, and Whole foods awareness campaign for natural cork, and the cork forests of Europe and Africa that produce it. It is advocating for the ecological, agricultural and cultural capital that these regions produce. Cork It focuses on local efforts that can create global change. Environmental Objective:

Cork It's main environmental operative is to reduce local waste in order to relieve local landfill operations and their total carbon footprint.

10/28/2015

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07/28/2015

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Did you know that xork stoppers are made by stripping bark from Cork Oaks? Here is a tree that was recently stripped in the San Pietro Forest in Southern Sicily (Italy).

The folks at the Roundhouse Community Center agree! They are our latest collections partners and we are happy to have th...
03/27/2015

The folks at the Roundhouse Community Center agree! They are our latest collections partners and we are happy to have them on board. Please stop by with your bag of corks! Check out their programming too - http://roundhouse.ca/programs/

We got a cool project off the ground with the help of the Neighborhood Small Grants program. Dream, apply, have fun!
03/13/2015

We got a cool project off the ground with the help of the Neighborhood Small Grants program. Dream, apply, have fun!

At Vancouver Foundation we know that small is beautiful. And that small things can have a big impact. Neighbourhood Small Grants is Vancouver Foundation’s unique program that helps build community and strengthen connections right where people live. Have a great idea for your community? Learn more ab…

100% recycled cork garden box indoor/outdoor - want one?
01/20/2015

100% recycled cork garden box indoor/outdoor - want one?

07/30/2014

Short film about collecting plastic to make a chair on a fishing boat at sea. www.studioswine.com Since the discovery of the Pacific Garbage Patch in 1997,…

https://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_burden_how_public_spaces_make_cities_work -467278A great talk from TED Vancouver. "Pub...
04/15/2014

https://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_burden_how_public_spaces_make_cities_work -467278

A great talk from TED Vancouver.

"Public spaces have power, they can change how you feel about a city and how you live in a city".

What do you want to see in Vancouver's public spaces? What can we do to change the we live and feel about the places we live?

More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it’s the city’s great public spaces — from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades — where people can stroll and play. Amanda Burden helped plan some of the city’s newest public spaces,...

http://www.cbc.ca/wildcanada/4 reasons why Canada should perhaps rethink their investments in Tar Sands Oil. and no m...
04/12/2014

http://www.cbc.ca/wildcanada/

4 reasons why Canada should perhaps rethink their investments in Tar Sands Oil. and no more oil freighters on BC's Coast.

Wild Canada - Thursdays at 8PM

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