Aug 29th, 2008 · As soon as Barack Obama's speech was over, scavengers got to work. More than 80,000 people had jammed Denver's football stadium to watch Obama make history by becoming the first black man to be nominated for president by a major political party. Speech-goers picked up anything they could get their hands on — political signs, plastic cups and confetti.
Oct 4th, 2007 · Raina Kelley, a writer for Newsweek magazine, spent a month as a freegan, someone who scavenges everything, from food to clothes, from what others have thrown away.
Oct 29th, 2006 · Forty years ago in a small town outside of Madrid, Don Justo Gallego began building a cathedral using scavenged building material. Now he's 81, and the cavernous cathedral he built by himself is nearing completion. Jerome Socolovsky spoke with him as the old man worked on the cathedral.
Mar 15th, 2006 · Inspired by a famous 100-year-old cookbook, hunter, cook and author Steven Rinella decided to cook a three-day, 45-course feast. It included a variety of delicacies poached inside of animal bladders and skewered elk livers.
Aug 27th, 2005 · More than 30,000 shipwrecks line the coast of Britain, and plundering those ships was a way of life for many living on the coast. Bella Bathurst tells the story of coastal scavengers in The Wreckers.