Why I stared Concordia Classifieds (http://www.con-ads.com)?

I joined Concordia University in January 2004. I could not book an apartment before leaving Lebanon because Concordia did not have a well developed medium for online classifieds. Thousands of International students suffered from this fact. The idea of http://www.con-ads.com  emerged from the need of Concordia students for a classifieds ads system similar to other universities in Montreal, namely McGill and UQAM. The majority of university students need to rent an apartment, buy or sell used gadgets, look for a part-time job, offer his/her tutoring services or have a peer’s advice.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G6sUIq_xLwuGQlqimLyx61SeodkcO3E43IZi8rzp1xQ/edit

Building a house out of bottles: the best reusing strategy I have seen

Ever dreamed to get rid of all these trillions of bottles around us in the upper hemisphere?
This is a new strategy from Nigeria this time.

The idea undoubtedly seemed strange at first: take the plastic water bottles that litter Nigeria's roads, canals and gutters and allow people to live inside them.

Not literally, but almost.

What a group of activists did was come up with a plan to build a house using those bottles, providing what they say is an environmentally smart strategy of chipping away at a housing shortage in Africa's most populous nation.

With the prototype near the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna now well underway, the group wants to extend its efforts and build more, aiming to unleash what they say is some long bottled-up potential.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/plastic-bottles-solve-nigerias-housing-problem-042708558.html