ThruYou --- we like to think of it as recycling

Last night after work we spent a couple hours at our desks watching ThruYou, a new internet video mashup sensation.

Kutiman, an Isaeli funk musician, has re-mixed dozens (if not hundreds) of stray YouTube bits of amateur musicians into his own seven-song “album.” The resulting compilation (and companion website, designed to look like a repurposed YouTube) is a mind-blowing reminder that something brand new and beautiful can be salvaged or created from forgotten or discarded parts.

Kutiman’s serious reduce-reuse-recycle mentality has a broader application in a period of economic downturn. The recycling process alone saves energy and natural resources, reduces the need to make new products from virgin materials, conserves landfill space and creates jobs, and is a major component of LCV’s overall conservation approach which is good for the economy and good for the planet.