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One of the ways you can stay motivated with your recycling effort is to scan a lot of varied periodicals and websites to look for ideas about what to do with found materials for re-use and repurposing.
This might be found in some surprising places. Today’s mass market reader is likely to overlap in so many tangential ways the end sum article is surprisingly readable by someone who would be amazed they were looking at the cover of such a magazine.
I am by no means a truck or car person, but this month’s issue of Truckin’ magazine has 100 tips about garage efficiency that mean business. These are the things that people who work their garage for fun and profit know after decades of being a weekend grease monkey.
Just like housewife folk wisdom and professional tips of any trade, these tips make for fascinating reading because of the myriad unfamiliarity of the problems they solve.
Sound & Vision puts out a mean issue of the latest in flat panel and LCD deep black and blackest black and black shadowed high definition plasma and LCD televisions. There are some juicy things happening in the world of swivel mounts that allow server efficiency and automation of window shades and power consumption. Check it out.
But just as every publication is looking to attract a green audience, the writers are turning the focus of their combined experience and writing flair to the issues of sustainable living. This will no doubt proliferate green reading in every tranche of hobby, interest, and specialty subject.
This month’s issue of Sound & Vision is going to be a great blog for the System Installer because he both sources Kermit the Frog and the song “It’s not easy being Green”.
But then there is a great Sound & Vision feature on the growing sustainability of the television market and the heightened eco-friendliness of today’s LCD or plasma TV end product. This gets the old noggin rolling. Talking tech about mouth-watering HDTV is not what most people picture as being green.
One great resource is home and garden hobby magazines in the vein of “This Old House”. Family Handyman, my closet green re-use read. Reading about backyard makeovers spurs the imagination regarding what potential projects I might be sitting on. Unless you picture your project how can you collect the ingredients?
How can I look for the right hardware for a backyard barbecue stand if I don’t know to look for scraps of brushed metal for the top foldover? Usually backyard furniture is so throwaway real wood and craftsmanship is an untold luxury.
This time last year if someone had suggested I was going to be interested in bending steel over a discarded pair of cabinets I would have said they were crazy. But why throw away good second hand wood when you can re-use it?
Attaching wheels to the bottom cabinet and mounting the metal surface of the top make for a stunningly practical sideboard, serving table, and receiving and cooling “tray” for summer barbecues. And talk about the gift for someone with everything. I played with Barbies and I want this thing.
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