Articles tagged “Newspapers”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Find 25 New Uses for Old Pantyhose By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 13 2008 Snags and runs can ruin an otherwise perfect pair of pantyhose or stockings. If you've lost something small and valuable, find it by wrapping a piece of pantyhose over the nozzle of your vacuum-cleaner hose, turning on the vacuum, and sweeping very carefully over your floor. + READ MORE

Make Dancing Dollies Out of Newspaper By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Feb 29 2008 Make a chain of funny characters with your kids-if paper dolls are old hat, try a row of dancing frogs or a string of prancing cats. Cut around your figure, leaving the part of the body that touch alone.Unfold the chain and then decorate your figures with markers or crayons. + READ MORE

Make Beads Out of Newspaper By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Feb 22 2008 Learn to make gorgeous papier-mâché beads out of old newspaper at A Storybook Life. Some glue helps mold the paper into tiny balls, which you can then paint, varnish, and string up to create necklaces, bracelets, and other schmancy accessories. ::A Storybook Life [Via ::HippyShopper] Difficulty level: Easy + READ MORE

Make Some Delicious Biscuits By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Feb 14 2008 I was just getting ready to sit down to my Soup of the Week for lunch when I started to think about a biscuit recipe that appeared in our local newspaper yesterday. In any case, they were a wonderful treat on a wintry day.Frozen Butter BiscuitsMakes eight to 10 large biscuits 4 cups all-purpose flour2 tablespoons... + READ MORE

Find Local Grocery Deals By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Feb 4 2008 Picking up weekly grocery flyers, so you can painstakingly comb through them for the latest steals and deals, can be a hassle, as well as massive producer of paper waste.Tapping into a database of more than 100,000 grocery products, along with their nutritional and ingredient information, the site lists the specials... + READ MORE

Request a Clothing Recycling Bin from Wearable Collections By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Jan 30 2008 While most clothing brands don't have a take-back program like Patagonia does, Manhattanites in the Big Apple have another option that makes recycling used duds as easy as recycling bottles. cans. and newspapers. Wearable Collections makes it easy for people to donate used clothing by placing collection bins in their... + READ MORE

Make Seed-Starting Pots From Recycled Materials By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 24 2008 You don't need elaborate seed-starting biodomes or habitat-destroying peat pellets to get your greens to sprout. Newspaper: A little origami magic turns a single sheet of newspaper into a seed-starter pot that you can later plant whole into your garden in late spring or early summer. + READ MORE

Organize a Towel Drive By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 16 2008 Animal shelters are always in need of gently used towels and blankets, whether it's to use as bedding or for bathing shelter animals. Then, put the word out to your neighbors, co-workers, relatives, and friends-or turn it into an event, complete with publicity materials, by assigning a date and time you'll be stationed + READ MORE

Get Help for Your Serious Clutter By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Jan 10 2008 If the above scene looks a little too familiar, and you're a little (or a lot) overwhelmed by your oppressive clutter, don't fret, you don't have to tackle it alone. If you're still hanging on to newspapers from the '90s (they're so 20th century, you know), or letting other piles of unused stuff alter your lifestyle,... + READ MORE

Green Delights of Junk Mail Gift Wrap: Spot the Holiday Symbols By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Dec 17 2007 Does junk mail make you see red?All of the gift-wrapped images featured here, and on the next four days, were made from actual junk mail our family received recently. + 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

Treat Backyard Birds with Pinecone Feeders By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 11 2007 Give your neighborhood birds a hearty winter-holiday treat by making pinecone bird feeders. You're also liable to make a mess-the best kind, which kids revel in-so we recommend spreading used newspaper over your kitchen table to protect surfaces from sticky fingers and implements. + READ MORE

Composting Basics: Troubleshoot Your Indoor Compost By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 10 2007 Nature, unfortunately, doesn't come with tech support, so if your little composting wrigglers are trying to make a break for it, or worse, they're dying en masse, you'll want to bone up on the New York City Compost Project's troubleshooting guide. You might have a problem with too much moisture or you're not covering... + READ MORE

Make Your Own Tidy Fire Logs Out Of Newspaper By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Dec 10 2007 We previously discussed making your own java logs; Here is a handy device that presses your old newspapers into neat little bricks that are said to light easily and burn nicely. + READ MORE

Green Your Move: Haul it With Biodiesel By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Dec 7 2007 Schlepping your worldly goods from here to there, whether it's around the block or clear across the country, is where it gets tricky. And, if you're renting a diesel truck and doing the hauling yourself, it couldn't hurt to ask if you can fill the tank with biodiesel-the worst response you can get is no (and maybe a... + READ MORE

Use Less Stuff: 10 Little, Big Things You Can Do By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Dec 5 2007 Free Range Studios and Annie Leonard, the co-coordinator of Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), have made a 20-minute short about the underbelly of our production and consumption patterns, as well as how they tie up with a large number of environmental and social issues.Buy green, buy fair, buy local,... + 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

Meet Change Maker Hugh Bowring Of Footprint Environmental Solutions By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Nov 29 2007 Today we're going to meet Hugh Bowring from the West Midlands in the United Kingdom.I think everyone can: get the best out of life without taking the best out of the planet. :: Footprint Environmental Solutions Change Makers is series of interviews with people famous and obscure, who answer questions about how they are... + READ MORE

Choose to Adopt Your New Best Friend By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Nov 28 2007 Most pet breeders have only one goal in mind-to raise large quantities of purebred animals for profit. To find a purebred rescue group in your area, contact your local animal shelter, check the classifieds section of your newspaper, or hop online. + READ MORE

Assemble a Fire-Starting Kit By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Oct 29 2007 Light a new homeowner's fire, literally, by creating a fire-starter kit made from recycled materials. For another failsafe starter, melt old candles in a double boiler, remove the old wicks, mix in pieces of 100 percent cotton dryer lint, and then pour the mixture into empty cardboard egg cartons. + READ MORE