Recycling Junk as a Business

Recycling Junk as a Bus...

Plasma TV Recycling Junk is business. Big business. But at the micro level it can be as much business as an individual entrepreneur can bring. With the emphasis on re-using existing resources, the Western world is full of things that can be repainted, refinished and repapered into...
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Sustainable Action Items

Sustainable Action Item...

Here are some sustainable living action items for you to do today: 1. Get the Freecycle bulletin out of your spam folder. If you didn’t sign up for it, sign up for it. Find one thing in the house and list it. Talk to neighbors and find one who doesn’t know about it. Evangelize...
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Re-use Trawling List

Re-use Trawling List...

We all drive by that stuff hanging by the curb, and the stacks of lamps piling up by the shabby chic resale shops sleep by night. The thrift shop nearest you has some hidden gem hiding there. But when you happen to be right in front of the stuff, does the brain go blank? Here is...
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Creating Your Greenspace

Creating Your Greenspac...

Heat got you down? Use this weekend or next to create a greenspace on your property that can become the next special place for people at your place to meet, share a drink, talk things over or just rest from the orchestrated, formal, scheduled round of obligations that keep the earth...
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Green Can-Do List

Green Can-Do List...

A list of things to do, items to buy, practices to observe and/or communications to make and projects to do  regarding sustainability. 1. Sign the Greenpeace petition Global warming is an environmental crisis the likes of which we’ve never faced before. And given the powerful...
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Green Eco Renovation

Green Eco Renovation...

The above image should illustrate that as a consumer culture the time has come to shed ignorance in matters of daily consumption and move toward permanent green living. An ice cream truck, whch costs energy above the basic fuel and pollution cost, operates while the driver leisurely...
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Re-use of Energy Greenly

Re-use of Energy Greenl...

The stores finally have some green friendly products that deliver some sustainability on the consumer home front. Sustainability and smart home use of utilities like freezer energy and renewable methods of cleaning, conserving energy and reducing bills have finally come into affordability...
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Green Re-Use Products

Green Re-Use Products...

Just a few quick blurbs about some new finds in the renewable living and sustainable home world (These are not paid links). Just browsed the local Albertson’s and saw a nice re-use type product that would make a great gift, especially now that summer is here. Great for beach,...
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This Old Recycler

This Old Recycler...

This Old Garden This month’s issue of This Old House has some dynamite ideas for customizing kitchen spaces for less money. But adding in the integrated idea of re-using sustainable materials culled from garage sales, estate sales, curbline cruising and thrift shop junkets,...
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Independence Tips Part II

Independence Tips Part ...

This is the Fourth of July weekend where you make a break from stale old traditions and start some fresh and renewable and sustainable practices. Instead of sitting around the living room texting the people you see every day, you might pair getting involved and close to family at...
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