The nonprofit Lifecycle Building Center (LBC) encourages community donations and actively salvages materials from renovation and demolition projects to sell at its retail store, 1116 Murphy Ave. It’s a great resource for do-it-yourselfers, home renovators, artists, film-set creators or anyone that needs dirt-cheap building materials and wants to help the environment. One of the shop’s biggest customers is the hit series The Walking Dead, which has purchased items as props. So far, the LBC has kept over 175,000 pounds of reusable material out of the landfill, completed 20 deconstruction projects, provided more than 30 free waste audits, and recruited over 370 volunteers. For more, visit facebook.com/LifestyleBuildingCenter or lifestylebuildingcenter.org.
