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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Recycling Economics

Recycling Economics...

  The materials needed for recycled projects need to be as reclaimed as possible. But the best kind of recycling is when source materials to begin with are brought from secondary and re-use sources instead of newly manufactured retail sources. More recycling needs to be happening...
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Recycling ideas

Recycling ideas...

Everything old is new again, or so the story goes. Now is the time the winter of many homeowner’s discontent, but make a glorious summer of windfall income come Christmas with gifts made from recycled items and clear a profit that would make Dickens grin. Right now at this...
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Junk Art

Junk Art...

A trip to a new blog made me envy people who had time to shop amongst the junk for art materials.  What does junk consist of? What does the word junk even mean to the new group of people now coming into adulthood? Junk used to mean scrap or distressed raw materials that could not...
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Back to School Recycling

Back to School Recyclin...

This is a hard year to teach kids the beauty of twice owned clothing.  High school is the training ground for forming impressions that will last a lifetime. The ego of the average teenager or college student may find that hard to do in used clothes. But with careful shopping the...
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Incorporating Green Business Motifs

Incorporating Green Bus...

One way to start at the grass roots level of using green materials and recycling junk into profitable sales products is to substitute materials in the supply chain for good obtainable from recycled sources. The mission to inform others about sustainability can be conducted while...
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