Reviving a Scrap Mail...

  What can you do with an old scrap mail? First you should sort glossy printed paper from the rest. This is often full of colorful photos and images grab a pile along with safety scissors, glue and a couple of kids and you have a wonderful afternoon of collage ahead of you. Kids...
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The Downside of Cheap Fast Food

The Downside of Cheap F...

The Downside of Cheap For all the grumbling you do about your weekly grocery bill, the fact is you’ve never had it so good, at least in terms of what you pay for every calorie you eat. According to the USDA, Americans spend less than 10% of their incomes on food, down from...
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Freecycler Power

Freecycler Power...

I am noticing a powerful surge in local Freecycle listings and give and take on both sides. here is the entry so you can see how minute the item listings might be and how every thing passed on instead of binned saves landfill and creates a re-use opportunity instead of a consumer...
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Recycling Craft Vogue

Recycling Craft Vogue...

The craft fair I attended today was rife with recycling gift ideas, some of them on the supply side. Used pairs of jeans transformed into handbags, and jewelry from deconstructed clothing. Lots of things that could have been made from re-used other materials. The vogue for re-used...
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Recycling Is Peanuts

Recycling Is Peanuts...

  green solutions           If there is one Great Blog to link to, it’s Jeff Yeager’s Cheapskate Blog. Spending less money is sustainable. Find ways to save money, reduce consumption, educate others, and learn new ways to recycle and re-use stuff you’d otherwise...
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Getting Crafty...

Turn off the boob tube this winter and get crafty. Stop using electricity and start a regeneration curve happening. Re-use thrift shop and discard items in utility crafts. Make gifts or just household helps. Assemble discard items in bulk or just work with shapes of tin, glass, aluminum...
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Call for Green Inventors!

Call for Green Inventor...

Lessened Resources Mean Less Yield Amazon Green is a new category on Amazon.com where all the eco-friendly products that Amazon sells can be located; it’s a handy way to find things. If you would like to find your thing — your time, money, or energy saving invention —...
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Stop the Curbing!

Stop the Curbing!...

The Curbing of America has got to stop. This tendency we have to roll the dice with leaving stuff by the curb, one wonders were it is all going. I like Freecycle better, and just have to assume when I see a site like the one above, the (former) owners have no literacy skills or would...
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Spare the Landfill, Spoil the Helmet

Spare the Landfill, Spo...

Here is a great list of eco-friendly actions you can take or share with others. Take a look at number 7, reducing sports equipment waste. Ideas for green living 1. Use fish tanks water for plants Do you have a fish or know someone who does? Hang around when they empty their tank...
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Fabric Arts Recycle Site Blueprint

Fabric Arts Recycle Sit...

  I found a good example of a recycle site blueprint by accident and stopped to check it out. I see that evidently someone has been taking the “get green” messages to heart. The Ebay listings are mirrored on the website. This is a very good model for a green materials...
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