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That's an outrageous price for a scrap wood table. Looks like an inexpensive parawood outdoor deck table.

Design is nothing to write home about either.

They were actually just featured on the "Furnish" episode of "Big Ideas for a Small Planet" (I think it's the Sundance Channel, but I downloaded it from iTunes.)

It's a shame--I like the look, but it's definitely out of my price range. I'll just have to stick to less expensive means of "green living".

Okay, I'm sayin' it:

Are $3000* tables made out of wood scraps really going to do *anything* to save the planet? No. Could they salve the conscious of a couple-three semi guilt-ridden H2 owners? Possibly.

What we need are $100 tables for the masses, all made out of recycled, reused, or beneficially renewable materials. And just as important, they need to be nicely designed so people will buy them.

If an expensive well-made table crafted from lots of little pieces of different woods fits someone’s design aesthetic, fantastic. But because it's better for the planet than an all-plastic table made from virgin crude? That's delusional.

*with shipping

I agree that it's annoying that they're selling this with a "green" angle. Ignore the 100%-recycled-wood! nonsense, though, and I think this is a lovely table.

Of course this is too expensive, and it's not going to save the planet, but I don't think that they purport to make any such claim. I appreciate anyone's efforts to make use of stuff that would otherwise be thrown out. Ideally, they could sell expensive tables to people who can afford them and then use some of their profit and time to develop more affordable projects for the other 99 percent of the world.