Articles tagged “Storage”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Daily DIY Project: Box Spring Wine Storage By Blythe Copeland IN Food & Health Sep 22 2009 Put your old box spring to work as an industrial-chic wine rack for your growing collection. Updating your mattress and box spring can do great things for your health—a good night's sleep is key to fixing a whole bunch of ailments—but what to do with your old set? Use this tutorial from ReadyMade to turn your aged box spring into a massive wine rack. + READ MORE

14 Reuses for Phone Books By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Sep 3 2009 Here are 14 ways to make your old phone books useful again. + READ MORE

10 Vegetables You Probably Aren't Growing But Should Be By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Sep 1 2009 Here are ten vegetables that usually get overlooked when we're planting our vegetable gardens. If you're looking for something a little different, give one of them a try! + READ MORE

Stop Wasting Food! Learn Easy Techniques For Preserving Food By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Aug 28 2009 It can be so disheartening to throw away food or to watch it rot. This morning I was so sad when I saw that one of my baby heirlooms had grown some mold on it. It's just a bit humid inside the house and sometimes my beautiful local goodness goes to waste. But a few innovative preservation techniques can do a world of good in your plight to keep uneaten foods from going to waste. + READ MORE

Two Easy Ways to Preserve Herbs from Your Gardens By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Aug 27 2009 Here are two easy ways to preserve herbs from your garden, CSA, or farmer's market. + READ MORE

8 Tips For Making the Most of Your Leftovers By Eric Leech IN Food & Health May 26 2009 Leftovers have long been made fun of, but today we are going to give them the respect that they deserve. Leftovers are a great way to save food, reduce your carbon footprint, save money, and save time. With that said, leftovers are only as good as the care that goes into their preparation, storage, and organization. A leftover doesn't do anybody any good if it sits in the refrigerator for weeks, until it needs to be thrown out anyway. Here are some tips to make the most of your leftovers, with a little help from the late comedian, George Carlin. + READ MORE

Green Ways to Use Your Home & Property to Avoid Foreclosure By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Feb 24 2009 Try some of these ideas below to scrape up what may be just enough money so that you can begin paying what's needed in order to not foreclose on your home. And you'll be doing it the green way. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Seed Bank By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Feb 19 2009 A seed bank is "a facility used to store seeds of various crops and wild plants, in an effort to maintain biodiversity. Seed banks can be found scattered all over the world, established by governments and organizations concerned about crop diversity." + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Flat Pack By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Jan 5 2009 I consulted the wise geeks at WiseGeek.com and found this: "Flat pack furniture is furniture which is fabricated in flat parts and designed to be quickly and easily assembled." + READ MORE

Sometimes you just need a place to put everything By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Dec 9 2008 You might still have lots of stuff that you just can't get rid of, but there are lots of storage options that people often overlook. + READ MORE

5 Easy Ways To Green Your Fridge By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Dec 3 2008 Your fridge looms monstrous over the rest of your kitchen. If you think about it, the fridge is essentially a storage locker for the dead plants and animals that we like to eat. Spooky, right? Fridges use up a lot of energy while making the coldness. You can do things to make your fridge more efficient. Here are five easy steps to make your refrigerator run more efficiently. + READ MORE

Stash Your Stuff in Sustainable Storage By Brian Merchant IN Home & Garden Sep 11 2008 You probably consider a wide range of factors when you're looking into buying new drawers, a closet, a cabinet or an armoire. Is it stylish? Well-priced? Functional? And so on. But there's another question you should probably be asking, too: is it sustainable? + READ MORE

5 Reuses for: Prescription Bottles By Leslie Billera IN Home & Garden Aug 13 2008 Lori Harfinest's 'man on the street' campaign engaged innocent passers-by in a water taste test on G-Word recently. Whenever I think about the number of plastic water bottles produced - and the oil used to manufacture them - a tiny pain throbs over the corner of my right eye. + READ MORE

A Green Solution for the Plastic Baggie Lover By Leslie Billera IN Food & Health Jul 21 2008 Whether you love them for Q-tips, carrot sticks, or candy, plastic bags can be addictive - and they can make you feel guilty if thrown away after a single use. Enter husband and wife team Jeannie Piekos and Randy Anderson and their save-the-day invention, Bag-E-Wash. Tired of trying to wash baggies out by hand in an... + READ MORE

Zombie Computer By Megan Cohen IN Tech & Transport Jul 8 2008 Even once you've bought a shiny new replacement, you can give your old computer a rad afterlife.To avoid panic and data loss, use your extra computer to keep copies of your most important stuff, so that if your regular PC breaks down, gets stolen, or is vaporized by a mad scientist in some kind of freak accident, your... + READ MORE

You've Heard of Beer Goggles: Now Try Soda Goggles By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jul 1 2008 Rachelle may not live quite the Hollywood life she envisions, but she did get her wish of brand new Vetrazzo countertops in a color called 'Hollywood Sage.'If you are really crafty, you can even use bottles to try a twist on the wine glass chandelier.Got some other great re-uses for plastic and glass bottles? + READ MORE

eBay Your Way to a Greener Earth By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 26 2008 Much to Rachelle's surprise, not one but two people bid on and win lunch dates with Ed. Those of us with less star power can use auctions to help the planet in another way: by buying and selling on eBay. + READ MORE

Got Plastic Bags? By Leslie Billera IN Work & Connect Jun 13 2008 Todd Sutton found out what to do with all of that styrofoam packing material that cradles brand new electronic equipment on G Word recently. This got us thinking about a much more common green demon: the plastic bag. Tons of people are telling us not to use them. Marine life gobble them up by mistake, thinking they're food. + READ MORE

Harvest the Rain By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jun 12 2008 Many ecological forecasters portend that water will be the next oil in terms of scarcity. Although water makes up the majority of our planet, freshwater makes up a tiny fraction of the whole with a great percentage of that freshwater tied up in the polar icecaps. + READ MORE

Green Natives Sighted in the Concrete Jungle By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 11 2008 Living in not-so-city-like Studio City, Ed and Rachelle have plenty of eco-minded neighbors like Bill Nye and Jay Leno. In contrast, when you reside in the middle of a big city, you may not have green neighbors with whom to share eco-tips or even know your neighbors' names, for that matter. Life in the city can seem positively un-green. + READ MORE