Trade, Borrow or Rent, But Don’t Buy Tools

Trade, Borrow or Rent, ...

Let this be the summer (and fall season) you borrow tools instead of spending a bundle on new mechanized hardware. Times are tough, there’s nothing wrong with offering a borrow or asking a lend on Freecycle or in your neighborhood to see what kinds of things people want in...
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Craft Fun from Recycling

Craft Fun from Recyclin...

Reduce consumer waste! Get the kids to go on a door to door recycling drive. Ask neighbors for discarded household materials that can be drawn together for a craft day of fun. Here is a list of some of the things thing to look for. Common household items can absorb packaging postconsumer...
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Meeting the Green Challenge

Meeting the Green Chall...

Cotton Onto Recycling Know those cotton balls you pitch when you open a bottle of vitamins or a prescription? Why not save them in a plastic bag and never buy cotton balls again! Cotton grown for these purposes and packaged in plastic requires soil and pesticide usage for tilling...
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Read Your Way to Recycling Junk

Read Your Way to Recycl...

newspaper   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...
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Green Resume Opportunit...

newspaper If you think your resume is just fine as it is, take another look. See anything green on there? Green is the new network of power and resume screeners know to look for actively involved sustainability projects and re-use, recycling and eco-friendly prospects. Does your...
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Recycle Lookouts...

Want to recycle but just never seem to find anything that appeals? Recycling works backwards. Re-use means you transform something old or used into something new. But the chicken has to come before the egg at some point. You can’t re-use stuff when you don’t know what to look...
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Top Trucking Tips...

garage greening Yes, astonishing as it may seem, a trucking magazine was the eye opening source of some amazing tips I found over the weekend. It seems the many garage bound mechanics and weekend grease monkeys have learned some lightning efficiencies and time saving tips. Here are...
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Recycle That Ladder...

Ladders are the new black. if that doesn’t make sense, carry the one and add in the two…. Everybody is saying green is the new black. That might be the case, but sometimes something somewhere,  somehow,  has got to give. The home sometimes need something …new. It...
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Recycling Super Tips for Guerilla Home Re-Users

Recycling Super Tips fo...

First In A Series 1 of 10 If you think the home is a place for single use container and water usage, guess again. Welcome to the era of re-use in the home, where any resource should be assessed and measured for re-use efficiency and planning for the re-use should begin at the original...
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The Furniture Medic

The Furniture Medic...

Furniture Medic   This sign caught my eye and I thought it was an excellent way to bring re-use into a topical conversation. What if you really could call a furniture medic? What if when the Kool-Aid hit the fan, or grandmother’s breakfront, or the extra hickory barbecue sauce...
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