Grow Your Holiday Cheer

Grow Your Holiday Cheer...

This wheelbarrow sacrifices rain catchment Is your budget thin this year for Christmas gift giving and holiday cheer? Gift exchanges are a cemented part and parcel of the consumative volcano that is the Western holiday season. And it’s too bad, because the mountains of wrapped...
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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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Recycled Halloween Costumes

Recycled Halloween Cost...

Reduce & Re-Use. The best Halloween costume is a recycled one. Making a Halloween costume out of any recycled material is better than generating consumption of one more acetate creation meant to be thrown away. The statistics on the waste Halloween alone creates are frightening. 1....
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Solar Decathlon Winners

Solar Decathlon Winners...

Team California won the Solar Decathlon in Washington D. C., for Architecture and Communications, and the University of Lousiana at Lafayette for won for Market Viability. More categorical wins will be announced. The Solar Decathlon houses will be open in the National Mall for public...
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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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Recycle Those Tomatoes!

Recycle Those Tomatoes!...

Looking for new ways to re-use tomatoes? Don’t go shopping, look for garden recipes and do some creative trading with the neighbors. People growing garden produce may outdate their own barnyard greens by dining out, maintaining a busy schedule, or simply not noticing their...
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No Impact Man…

No Impact Man…...

The average American generate 1600 pounds of garbage a year. Try to imagine no electricity, no TV, an experiment in extreme no impact consumerism. No plastic razors and and no soda pop. Can people do it? Can people living in New York City do it? For a year? Eating nutritionally...
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Top 100 Green Companies

Top 100 Green Companies...

The recent issue of Newsweek has on its cover the top 100 green companies. This list is headed by Hewlett Packard, Dell, and many other familiar names. Even Starbucks cracked the top ten. But the really interesting reading comes when you read how they arrived at the rankings. Why...
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Recycled Events Planning

Recycled Events Plannin...

     Listening to a public events planner host a planning meeting recently, I observed that in no part of the agenda was there any method to re-use or recycling materials, pans, serving implements, materials or ingredients. The entire catering initiative was stemming from consumer...
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Unlearning Consumerism

Unlearning Consumerism...

I was scanning Stephanie Kaza’s excellent book “Mindfully Green” and an operative key phrase popped out. Unlearning Consumerism is the class we all need to take. The current generation of Western cultural residents have grown up in plenitude and conspicuous consumption. Pride...
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