In the houses Steve Loken builds, the concrete is mixed with fly ash and the carpets are made with plastic soda bottles. Loken, the 45-year-old founder of the Center for Resourceful Building Technology in Missoula, Montana, has turned his enthusiasm for recycling materials and waste products into functional homes that don't have a negative environmental impact.
ReCraft 90, Loken's first project, built in 1992, has become something of a tourist attraction in Missoula's Rattlesnake district. But it might be easier on the carpet if you simply visit ReCraft 90 on the Web (www.montana.com/crbt/). After all, it is Loken's home. "More people can get the idea of what it's all about," he says, "without having to troop through my living room."
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