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24 Jun 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
After a recent trip to Western Germany where beautiful castles decorate the landscape, part of me transitioned back into a princess and castle-loving little girl. When I found a map in my backpack upon arriving home, I decided to make a castle-shaped bookmark out of it. Whether you love castles...+ READ MORE
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15 Jun 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
Night lights, cover-ups, and homemade paper get your summer off to a sweet+ READ MORE
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26 May 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT | COMMENTS
What if I were to tell you that there was a magnificent new way to send correspondence to others without using a scrap of paper? You would probably tell me that yeah, that's rad, and that POGs and snap bracelets are sick, too. Psyche. And then you'd tell me to stop watching I Love the '90s...+ READ MORE
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18 May 2009 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
Last week I stumbled across a really great DIY project for reusing security envelopes, and it got me to thinking. Sure there are reusable envelopes, but given how many single-use envelopes we receive each year, I wondered about the many ways we could reuse before we recycle.+ READ MORE
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20 Mar 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Greeting cards are a huge waste that we can avoid supporting.+ READ MORE
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4 Mar 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
For years we have been saying that the key to sustainability is living with less, and now in these difficult times everyone is finding that it may well be the key to survival.+ READ MORE
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25 Feb 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT | COMMENTS
There's email, and there's snail mail. Zumbox is putting parameters in place to squash any potential for junk mail, and marketers and advertisers are the only clients being charged for the service, which will also help cut down on junk mail and promote use by other organizations.+ READ MORE
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18 Feb 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Junk mail. It's trash delivered right to your mailbox that you get the privilege of throwing away. What a deal! But what if you didn't just chuck it in the trash? What if you used it? Here's how.+ READ MORE
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4 Feb 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Your office may send and receive a veritable boatload of paper mail. Even if your office tries to digitize the majority of its correspondences, a few messages undoubtedly go out by snail mail. Even worse, if your office has to send out mailers or bills to people with a second envelope on the inside...+ READ MORE
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20 Jan 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
When I was living in Portland, Oregon, in an apartment complex, we would get a weekly stack of junk mail, mostly from fast food companies in the area, compliments of a company named Adville. They are not a local company. In fact, they invade mailboxes around the country with unwanted coupons for...+ READ MORE
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27 Nov 2008 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
Living off-grid usually means that there is no trash pickup day. No Problem. Here is what I do in order to limit my trash to one small carryout bag per month.+ READ MORE
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23 Nov 2008 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
If you're frequently asked to, or volunteer to, send out items to business partners and clients without first seeking their permission, try to change this. No one wants to receive 'junk' mail and even though you may see the importance in whatever you're sending, it may simply be junk mail for...+ READ MORE
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19 Sep 2008 IN BATTLEGROUND EARTH | COMMENTS
People's mailboxes are inundated daily with unwanted junk mail and most of it ends up going directly in the trash. Tommy and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges are instructed to go out with their teams around Atlanta and collect the most junk mail in order to recycle it.+ READ MORE
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5 Sep 2008 IN BATTLEGROUND EARTH | COMMENTS
We're in Atlanta, where the drought dries the lawns and the heat sits like a blanket on your shoulders. There's a party going on in Luda's bus as he's rolling into his hometown. In Tommy's bus Johnny Colt is doing a little dance of joy because Atlanta is his home too.+ READ MORE
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29 Aug 2008 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
Throw a low-impact party with the Totally Eco Party Pack. Live in NYC?Get your milk home delivered--the old fashioned way! Pick up some comfy, vegan kicks at Portland's Pie Footwear. All this and more, today on TreeHugger!+ READ MORE
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