The Dishwasher is for DISHWASHING

The Dishwasher is for D...

I take exception to the growing trend of urging folks to use their dishwasher to perform services or render effects the machine was not built for.  Dishwashers, electric or not, conservational or not, are the lazy man’s luxury as it is. But why would you go to the trouble...
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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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Placedness and Suburban Reduction

Placedness and Suburban...

A piece in a new issue of Business Week hit on the reduction dynamic taking place in American residential habits. What the author calls “localism sounds very green. Kotkin’s piece thoughtfully traces scholarly leftovers of the Chicago School’s emerging ecologies...
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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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Quikrete

Quikrete...

recycle tiles as garden decoration Feeling cemented in your present life? Pulverized? Torn up? Ashy? Overly slagged? But the production of Quikrete allows for some innovation and renewability in the paving of new roads and other surfaces recycling old torn up pavements. With more...
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Put a Cork in It

Put a Cork in It...

1. Carve a cork bowl. Carving woodcrafts could be the new artisan entrepreneurship. Try it for yourself or a Christmas gift. Cork has a clean aesthetic and warm texture. Reclaimed cork comes from a varity of sources and provide a green art product. So although cork is a naturally...
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Once More Into the Breach…

Once More Into the Brea...

Dam-cam Oregon: In Grant’s Pass, Oregon, the dam came tumbling down. On purpose. And the people threw up their hands and cheered…And if the fish could cheer they would throw up their fins in glee. Activists fighting their hardest to save the fish beating themselves against...
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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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Green Thumbery Plantopia

Green Thumbery Plantopi...

The Winter garden should be going into the ground right about now. What makes your garden grow? China isn’t growing three headed celery roots in Outer Mongolia, but their Inner Mongolian pollution is a problem. If your garden needs first aid, strike before the Chinese yen buys...
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The New Hot Mess

The New Hot Mess...

Solar Powered Garbage compactors live up to their billing. More and more municipal areas are purchasing these units to crumple garbage without electricity and utilize solar power in yet one more way to keep the earth green and sustainable. The cordless solar power waste compactor...
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