{"id":7859,"date":"2011-06-13T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=7859"},"modified":"2017-11-13T02:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T21:18:55","slug":"all-that-glitters-is-not-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/all-that-glitters-is-not-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"All that glitters&#8230; is not gold."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7860\" title=\"florie-salnot_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/florie-salnot_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7861\" title=\"florie-salnot_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/florie-salnot_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7862\" title=\"florie-salnot-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/florie-salnot-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7863\" title=\"florie-salnot_7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/florie-salnot_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Algerian Sahara<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the sloping dunes of the Sahara comes a groundbreaking design process that turns waste from refugee camps into jewelry as beautiful as the intentions behind it. Royal College of Art student Florie Salnot collaborated with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandblast-arts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandblast<\/a>, a London-based nonprofit that works with the Saharawis of Algeria, to find a creative yet economic solution to raise awareness about their cultural displacement. Old plastic bottles from the refugee camp are collected and repurposed into remarkable faux-gold jewelry that reflects their local traditions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Read more of this story (with additional images) in the <\/em>Ecouterre<em> article <a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ecouterre.com\/saharan-refugee-camp-recycles-plastic-bottles-into-amazing-gold-jewelry\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><em>&#8220;These stunning pieces prove that<br \/>\n<\/em>upcycling can be synonymous with<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">sophisticated and inspired artisanal work.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian Sahara From the sloping dunes of the Sahara comes a groundbreaking design process that turns waste from refugee camps into jewelry as beautiful as the intentions behind it. Royal College of Art student Florie Salnot collaborated with Sandblast, a London-based nonprofit that works with the Saharawis of Algeria, to find a creative yet economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,7,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15534,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions\/15534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}