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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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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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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Kids Konserve

Kids Konserve...

Bag the Baggie!  Choose to Re-use! Such are the slogans of http://www.kidskonserve.com/, a new green enterprise which could (and should) spur copycats. Madames Claxton and Julian surely deserve their Girl Scout green entreprenur patch. This month’s Entrepreneur magazine has...
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Recycle Your Business

Recycle Your Business...

Think you don’t have the resources to start a new business? Poppycock! Re-use is the hot new business commodity. The business plan for your re-use business starts today. Map out your product, find your resources, and do a product construction blueprint that works for ongoing...
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Reclaim Those Yards

Reclaim Those Yards...

We all see rotting fruit falling from trees all the time but it’s part of our training and society manners not to intrude and mention that fruit is going to waste. Rotting fruit in the heat becomes a germ and bacterial risk. So why have we waited to find a way to save it? Some...
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Recycling and Fires

Recycling and Fires...

I am mourning today the loss of great hiking trails due to fire. From the Latimes.com fire coverage: Joe Young, 63, who has hiked the San Gabriel Mountains for 39 years, said the burned area contains many of Southern California’s most popular hiking trails. “It’s...
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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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Top Ten Recycling Tips Review

Top Ten Recycling Tips ...

Clean water tables have less toxic pesticides In recognition of America Recycles Day (Nov. 15), Office Depot compiled a list of the top 10 ways to recycle at home and in the office. But let’s look at this list with a critical eye. Better answers are out there. Buy recycled...
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