Make Mealtime Fun for Your Dog with a Recycled Pet Feeder

For most dog owners, including myself, your pet dog is just like your very own child…only hairier with a bit more drool. You want to give your dog all the love and attention that he or she deserves, and you definitely want to make sure that they are happy. Happiness for dogs usually includes getting their belly rubbed, eating food, playing catch, snuggling with you under the covers and eating more food.

Just like parents buy their kids cute SpongeBob Squarepants bowls or Hello Kitty utensils to keep their playful minds entertained while they eat, dog owners can also buy their “kids” cool objects to help them gulp down their favorite brand of dog food.

Take for example a pet feeder, which is used to hold a dog’s dishes. It is usually a bland-looking plastic or metal apparatus, but I’ve come across some amazingly cool pet feeders that may just make your pets enjoy their meal a little bit more.

Besides looking very cool, they’re also made from recycled materials! So check out these 5 recycled pet feeders that may just add some “flavor” to your dog’s food:

Recycled Metal Pet Feeder and Sculpture

Talk about metal mania! This recycled metal pet feeder from GreatGreenPet.com is handmade from recycled and scrap metal parts and is a great way to decorate any indoor or outdoor area.

Wine Barrel Feeder

This raised pet feeder from Orvis.com is made from an authentic recycled white oak wine barrel.

Recycled Plastic Feeders

Offered on OfficialDogHouse.com, these feeders are made from recycled plastic soda bottles and come with two paw print stamped stainless steel bowls.

Whiner and Diner Eco-Friendly Elevated Pet Feeder

Created by a French artist and an accomplished carpenter, these elevated pet feeders are made from authentic European, Californian and Chilean wooden wine crates! Offered onWhinerandDiner.net.

Recycled Feeder

These cute pet feeders from IntheCompanyofDogs.com are made from recycled polyethylene plastic and feature a cut out paw print on the front.

See, your dogs can have fun munching their food and you can feel good that you did your part to protect the planet with these recycled pet feeders!

There are millions of commercials on TV that promote luxury items like cars, jewelry, electronics and more, but we rarely see any that promote the preservation of the planet. Well, these 5 YouTube videos are actual TV commercials that were created by a few green organizations.

These videos prove that having a sense of humor for such grim subject matter is a great way to raise eco-awareness.

1. Planet Green Commercial – “Beach”
This guy takes solar energy to the next level!

2. Funny Greenpeace Commercial
Greenpeace makes a statement about energy efficient light bulbs.

3. Kenco Eco-Refill Ad 100%
This funny ad shows just how far people will go to reduce packaging.

4. Hairy Situation
Learn how the earth feels about deforestation.

5. Emission Measuring – TV Ad for Partnerstvi Foundation
Discover how fun it can be to measure your personal carbon emissions.

This 97-foot tall treehouse made from reclaimed and recycled wood gets an average of 400 visitors a week!

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In 1993 God told Horace Burgess, a landscape architect and ordained minister, to build a treehouse.  Horace accepted this divine intervention, and for seventeen years he worked on what he calls “The Minister’s Treehouse.”  This massive treehouse, which is located is Crossville, Tennessee, is 97-feet high, has 10 floors and covers between 8,000-10,000 square feet.  It’s built around an 80-foot-tall white oak tree and has six other trees that support it like natural pillars.  One could say that it’s the tallest and holiest treehouse of them all.
The coolest feature of the Minister’s Treehouse, which looks to me like something that Tarzan’s rich uncle would own, is that it’s built completely with salvaged lumber that Horace acquired from garages, sheds, barns and other structures.  It also includes recycled furniture, license plates and roofing material.  Inside the treehouse you’ll see a spiral staircase, a choir loft, a private sanctuary, and yes, even a basketball court!  Horace even built his wife her own personal belfry tower, which includes chimes made from oxygen acetylene bottles that weigh 5,700 pounds each.
Need to see it to believe it?  Here’s proof:

Images: odditycentral.com

Images: flickr
The Minister’s Treehouse gets about 400-500 visitors from around the country every week.  After taking a tour of the amazing treehouse and reaching the top, guests get to view the garden that Horace designed himself.  It includes flowers like daffodils, irises, narcissus, gladiolas and wild daisies, all of which spell out the word…J-E-S-U-S!  In an article in USA Today Horace said this about the garden: “The whole message of the thing is if you come to see the site and climb to the top, you’ll see Jesus in the garden, and the preacher didn’t have to say a word.”
According to Horace, the treehouse isn’t finished.  He’s going to keep building it up as long as he keeps getting recycled materials.  I hope that he does go bigger, because this is an amazing sight that everyone should get to see!