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Seed Starting – Save Money & Help Mother Earth by Using Recycled Items
Recycling containers and other items to help get a head start on the growing season shouldn’t be too hard for anyone to do. If you look at every food container that you usually place in your recycling bin or throw away, you will begin to see potential pots, planters or mini-greenhouses everywhere. As example, so [...]
ReUse Pallet Wood- Make Chairs
We love free stuff and being able to creatively use free stuff, like pallet wood to reuse is a great thing. Pallet wood is almost always free and thrown away, ending up in landfills.. Rob Crawford has started his own business Pallet Chairs, What I like is the portability. You can take to the soccer [...]
24 Exciting Stats on Green Job Growth
Hydropower is estimated to have the potential of adding 1.4 million jobs by 2025 Every state has the potential to create hydropower projects, from ocean water, streams, or pumped storage water, meaning plants all over the country could be created and staffed with workers. The government has created a $2 million green job competition for [...]
Staples Offers Free Electronic Recycling
This is great news, now we don’t have to wait for an electronic recycling event to get rid of old stuff. PALO ALTO, Calif., FRAMINGHAM, Mass., April 18, 2012 – HP (NYSE: HPQ), the world’s largest technology company, together with Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS), the world’s largest office products company and second largest e-commerce company, [...]
8 Reclaimed Wood Furniture Ideas
Reclaimed wooden furniture has become an incredibly popular trend in interior design. Rustic style and the appeal of recycling materials make it easy to see why this trend is on the rise. I hope you find these examples as inspiring as I do. The beautiful reclaimed wood dining table fits in well with the hardwood [...]
The Sunflower: A heliostat that can provide light to all the corners of your home
Sunlight is an abundant resource of natural energy which, if used at its optimum, can provide us unlimited energy as an alternative resource. Sunlight has been used for various reasons by mankind since times immemorial and in the modern times, we have combined this vast resource with technology to manufacture some innovative devices for harnessing [...]
ecoHow To Build Furniture From Used Chopsticks
The other nite, we went out to dinner and I forgot my chopsticks. After doing a post on how many trees are killed to make chopsticks, I started taking my own chopsticks to restaurants or used a fork! How many chopsticks get wasted every day in your city? That was the question Barcelona-based designers Loida [...]
Trash To Treasure Recycling Contest- Win An iPad2
I received this and thought I would pass it on for creative people, an opportunity to win an iPad 2. With growing concerns about landfill waste, consumption of resources and the future of our planet, many people are turning to the concept of “upcycling” or converting post-consumer waste into new, useful materials and products. In [...]
Are E-Textbooks an Environmentally Sustainable Option?
For people who love environmentally friendly products, e-readers pose a quandary. On one hand, they are filled with hard-to-recycle parts; on the other hand, they save the need to use trees to create more print books. A new trend in the industry, putting textbooks into digital formats, has added a new element to this discussion. [...]
Reuse Soda Tabs: Make Jewelry
Another fun ecoHow on how to make your own jewelry reusing pull tabs and a bit of ribbon. I just gotta Eco Ya: This came from the Can Manufacturers Institute (who should know) Recycling aluminum cans saves 95 percent of the energy used to make aluminum cans from virgin ore. In 1972, 53 million pounds [...]
10 Edible Flowers For Your Sustainable Garden
Flowers are often used as decoration or admired in beautiful gardens. However, there are some flowers that you can actually eat. Before eating any flower it is very important to identify the flower and make sure it is safe to eat. Failing to make sure the flower is safe to eat before you ingest it [...]
15 Ways To Reuse Bathtubs
The subject came up the other day, when I was talking to a friend about remodeling bathrooms. They were going to take their bathtub to the dump! OH NO, bathtubs can easily be donated to any Habitat for Humanity, given away or sold on site sites as craigslist. (see list of 11 places to sell or [...]
Taxpayer Cost Of Litter: Sioux City, Iowa: $85,000/ Year
Sioux City says it’s on track to spend more than $80,000 this year on litter removal and clean up. Since January 1st, the city has spent 1$1,000 on litter clean up. Full Story That might now seem alot, but the population of Sioux City is about 82,794 in 2009 According to City Data. There were 33,425 [...]
ReUse Skateboards: Skate Deck Art From Haroshi
Thousands of skateboards are trashed everyday, Creative trashionistas are reusing and making into eyewear, furniture , jewelry and of course skateboard art. We also love these 3D Sculptures out of recycled skateboard decks from Japanese artist Haroshi. There are over 4.8 billion dollars worth of skateboards sold every year. The ages of the buyers are getting younger, [...]
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