Articles tagged “Green Packaging”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Meet Change Maker Heidi Matonis, Founder of Positivitee By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Mar 12 2008 Today, we're going to meet Heidi Matonis, founder and principal designer for Positivitee, a line of sustainable and sweatshop-free activist shirts and tees with a difference: $5 from the sale of each shirt goes toward a non-profit organization such as the Retired Thoroughbred Foundation, Oceana, and Heifer International. + READ MORE

Raise a Greener Glass This St. Patrick's Day By Collin Dunn IN Food & Health Mar 11 2008 If the approaching St. Patrick's Day holiday has you dreaming of leprechauns, shamrocks and quaffing a wee pint (or two) of green beer, making a few key choices can help lead to you to the green pot o' gold and a tasty, more planet-friendly holiday. + READ MORE

Clean Up With a Bar of Soap By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 10 2008 Get squeaky clean with bars of soap instead of liquid shower gel you have to pump out of a petroleum-based plastic bottle. Remember to check your potential purchase against the Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep site for hazard scores of popular brands before you buy, while examining the fine print to determine if + READ MORE

Make a Personalized Pet Place Mat By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 4 2008 If you have leftover tiles from your last bathroom- or kitchen remodeling project, consider turning them into a tidy, easy-to-clean place mat to brighten up your pet's breakfast nook. When your plywood is completely covered, allow the tiles to set overnight, before spreading grout over the tiles.Tip: Slap on some... + READ MORE

Read Michael Pollan's Book In Defense of Food This Weekend By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Feb 29 2008 TreeHugger colleague Jenna Watson and I went to hear Michael Pollan speak in Toronto earlier this week. We have covered eating more vegetarian meals, getting your kids to eat vegetables as well as teaching them to cook, production issues surrounding meat, shopping at your local farmer's market or growing your own... + READ MORE

Recycle Your iPod Packaging into Speakers By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Feb 27 2008 Taking advantage of Apple's customer loyalty, which goes beyond simple brand to include saving the packaging, here's a cool way to make some portable speakers for your portable digital media player. The plastic box combines with AudioCubes' small speakers to create a slick little speaker setup that doesn't require any... + READ MORE

Cut Waste When Grocery Shopping By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Feb 20 2008 Sure, bringing your own canvas totes to the supermarket is one way of cutting down extraneous waste, but that's not the only way we can help spare our overtaxed landfills and resources. Close the loop: Purchase products, such as paper towels and toilet paper, made from recycled materials. ::Real Simple Difficulty... + READ MORE

Meet Change Maker Sonya Kashmiri, Ethical Accessories Designer By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Feb 20 2008 Today, we're going to meet Sonya Kashmiri, who has created her own eponymous line of fashion accessories.Change Makers is series of interviews with people famous and obscure, who answer questions about how they are creating a more sustainable world through their work and personal lives. + READ MORE

Build a Solar Food Dehydrator By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Feb 12 2008 Eco Bites has the goods on building an inexpensive solar-powered food-preservation machine of your very own. Vegetables should be dry and brittle. ::Ecobites.com Difficulty level: EasyTip: Make sure your food is cool before you store it, because condensation build-up can result in mold. + READ MORE

Take a Closer Look at the Ingredient List By Collin Dunn IN Food & Health Jan 28 2008 It'd be great if we could all eat all fresh, local food, all the time, but, try as we might, the reality is that most of us will end up with a can, jar, bottle, or box in our pantry or fridge. A box of 100 percent organic cereal in my pantry still has 10 ingredients on the list, so each of those had to be harvested,... + READ MORE

Reduce Kitchen Paper Waste By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 17 2008 The Green Guide suggests three simple yet effective ways of reducing paper waste in your kitchen, including reusing your coffee filters. The second piece of advice, to eat less processed (read: overpackaged) foods, is obvious enough, although we'd like to add that shopping from the bulk-foods section can also... + READ MORE

Tend to Your Garden in Winter By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 16 2008 Although many of the perennials grown in the garden slumber through the winter months, the gardener is far from inactive, according to Stephen and Val Bradley, authors of Fragrant Gardening (2003, Laurel Glen). Remove any dead flower heads, yellowing leaves, and other plant debris before mold starts to form, to cut the + READ MORE

Make Your Own Organic Baby Food By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 9 2008 Crammed with refined sugars, chemically modified starches, preservatives, and artificial additives, most prepackaged baby foods are little more than processed nosh in a jar, which means that your bambino is mostly getting mouthfuls of fillers, instead of the fruits and vegetables pictured on the container.In case of... + READ MORE

Reuse Leftover Wrapping Paper By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 25 2007 Although Heidi's luscious gift wrap isn't made from recycled paper, the designer has some creative ideas for using every last scrap of leftover wrapping paper, saving some of the 5 million extra tons of trash Americans create between Thanksgiving and New Year's. + READ MORE

Save Your Memories with Tiny Buildings By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Dec 20 2007 Some people take pictures to remember; since the 1970s, Sharon and her late husband James made tiny buildings from business cards and packaging.Because the tiny buildings were made from familiar boxes, or restaurant business cards, or other pieces collected as we traveled and lived, they became miniature memoirs of... + READ MORE

Join the Garbage Revolution By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Dec 17 2007 Garbage! They cost more to buy but save you 10 times the original cost and not get thrown in the trash. + READ MORE

Get Rid of Old Styrofoam Peanuts By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 10 2007 Expanded polystyrene peanuts, trademarked by Dow Chemical as Styrofoam, have long been an environmental blight. Besides stemming the tide Styrofoam peanuts by using alternative packing fillers, you can also help reduce virgin polystyrene demand by dropping off your used packing peanuts at a local business for reuse. + READ MORE

Conduct an Office Waste Audit By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Dec 5 2007 What's in your trash? Analyze business processes: Examine purchasing records to weed out extraneous supplies you're overstocking on, as well as to identify items that can be replaced with eco-friendlier options-using recycled printer paper versus virgin materials, for instance, or replacing disposable Styrofoam and... + READ MORE

Green Your Move: Use Recyclable, Reusable Packing Supplies By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Nov 30 2007 Okay sport, you've pared down your possessions to a more manageable number. Rent moving crates: A number of moving companies, such as the Continental Moving Company, Earth-Friendly Moving, and Rent-a-Crate lease out reusable plastic moving crates. + READ MORE

Mail Your Gifts in Eco-Friendly Packaging By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Nov 26 2007 Even as we speak, the postal elves are gearing up for the holiday onslaught of yuletide cheer. Cushion a cook book, for instance, in a bed of peppermint candies-a lipsmacking gift in itself-or pad a music box with crumpled sheets of vintage music scores. + READ MORE