As the world eagerly awaits the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, London is ramping up their own construction plans for the 2012 Olympics. And we just learned this exciting little tidbit about the super sustainable Olympic Stadium currently being built there that makes us even more anxious to see it – it’s going to be made out of recycled guns and knives!
That’s right, confiscated weapons from the Metropolitan Police Department are being melted down into scrap metal and used to help build the stadium. That’s an anti-weapons and recycling program all rolled into one!
desde London’s Olympic Stadium to Be Made Out of Recycled Guns and Knives! | Inhabitat.
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«… Extraordinario ejemplo de creatividad y promoción de la Paz, que ojalá fuera imitado por tantos otros eventos… la gente de Populous, encargada en la actualidad del diseño y construcción de varios de los mas grandes estadios del mundo, encabeza esta original y muy prometedora iniciativa: con menos armas y más deporte nos acercamos un poquito mas a un mundo mejor …»
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