Articles tagged “Paper”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Make a Gift Basket for Someone You Love By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Dec 12 2007 My husband has a great philosophy of life. Your loved one gets tasty treats, you aren't adding any stuff to their home, and you didn't use any wrapping paper that gets instantly thrown away. + READ MORE

Bake Some Dough Christmas Tree Decorations By Kelly Rossiter IN Home & Garden Dec 12 2007 Image credit:http://flickr.com/photos/snowdeal/313564813/When my children were small, our house was Kid Central. So even though it's a hectic time of year, carve out a bit of time to make some dough ornaments with your kids.Baked Dough for Christmas Ornaments FlourSaltVegetable oilWaterAcrylic paint 1. + READ MORE

Recycle Used Magazines, Catalogs into Holiday Ornaments By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 6 2007 If you have hyperactive cats (or children) who like to dash your Christmas ornaments to the ground with one well-aimed swipe, these unbreakable paper ornaments may be just what you need to gussy up the Ol' Tannenbaum. + READ MORE

Throw an Eco-Friendly Baby Shower, Celebrity Style By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 6 2007 For Sheryl Crow's July 2007 baby shower, in honor of her baby son Wyatt, party planner Traci Phillips designed an eco-friendly shindig anyone can replicate. To welcome guests, Phillips strung a clothesline pinned with baby clothes and toys above the front door. ::Wee Generation Fore more advice and inspiration, click... + 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

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

It's Hanukkah! Make Some Potato Latkes By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Dec 5 2007 My husband is Jewish and grew up eating potato latkes every Hanukkah. I am Protestant and grew up eating mashed potatoes every Christmas. Shortly after we were married, he suggested that I get his Great Aunt Sara's latke recipe. + READ MORE

Use Honey to Soothe That Cough By Lloyd Alter IN Food & Health Dec 4 2007 A recent study compared the effectiveness of honey to expensive cough medicines, as well as to no treatment at all, and found that the folk remedy worked better than any other option. We should note, however, that the study was funded by the National Honey Board, an industry-funded agency of the U.S. Department of... + READ MORE

Grill Gruyere and Red Onion Sandwiches By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Nov 30 2007 Here is a meatless dinner that you can serve to your family and make everybody happy, vegetarians and carnivores alike. The shorter cooking time will give you a stronger onion taste, the longer cooking time will give you a sweeter taste; your choice.Grilled Gruyere and Red Onion Sandwiches with Grainy MustardServes 4 3 + READ MORE

Staple Your Docs Without Staples By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Nov 29 2007 I probably could have avoided catching my thumb in the jaws of a stapler not just once, but twice as a child-and trust me, kids, you do not want to try this at home-if I had in my then-possession a staple-free stapler. Rather than use tiny yet lethal pieces of metal to secure paper, the staple-free stapler punches... + 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

Bind Used Office Paper into a Stab-Stitched Book By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Nov 28 2007 Offices generate a heckuva lot of paper waste. Slack Stab-Stitched Recycled Book Four or more sheets of 8 1/2 x 11-inch (21.5 x 28cm) lightweight office paper, printed on one sideOne sheet of 8 1/2 x 11-inch (21.5 x 28cm) colored cover-weight paper, also printed on one side, if possibleBone folderX-Acto knifeAwlBulldog + READ MORE

Wrap Your Presents in Reusable Gift Bags By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Nov 27 2007 The holiday season offers little peace and goodwill for the world's forests. Give a tree a break this yuletide by wrapping your winter bestowals in reusable fabric gift bags-you can easily whip up your own with some basic sewing know-how. + 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

Green Your Media: Tell Your Favorite Magazines to Go Recycled By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Nov 21 2007 Of all the wood harvested globally for so-called "industrial uses"-that is, everything but fuelwood-42 percent gets siphoned off for paper production, a proportion that the World Watch Institute expects to shoot up more than 50 percent in the next 50 years.The Magazine PAPER Project at Co-op America provides free... + READ MORE

Have a Clean, Safe Thanksgiving with these 10 Tips By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Nov 21 2007 Salmonella invading cultured human cells. If someone helping out in your kitchen does this, replace it with a clean one right away.Follow these 10 tips and everybody will still be smiling the day after Thanksgiving. + READ MORE

Think Before You Print That Email By Collin Dunn IN Tech & Transport Nov 20 2007 An estimated 97 billion emails whisk through cyberspace every day; while you may not be able to stem the tide of your overflowing email box, there's an easy action to help the planet that you can take with each message that zooms into your box: please consider the planet before printing that email. + READ MORE

Fold a Paper Wallet By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Fashion & Beauty Nov 19 2007 One sheet of letter-size paper and some sticky tape are all you need to fold together a seamless wallet that is the pinnacle of minimalist chic. Work your origami-fu on a used Tyvek mailer to guard your wallet against tears, rips, and water damage. ::Instructables Difficulty level: Easy + READ MORE

Reuse Your Cereal Box Liner By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Nov 16 2007 What do you do with the waxy plastic bag your breakfast cereal comes in when the box is empty? As long as you don't shove it into an oven or run a hot iron over it, it's an excellent zero-cost alternative to the store-bought kind.Other potential uses: Storing portions of frozen meat, for rolling out cookie dough, as... + READ MORE

Green Your Media: Download Your Books and Magazines By Lloyd Alter IN Tech & Transport Nov 14 2007 Everyone is familiar with iTunes and MP3 music now; by digitizing music we have reduced it to its essential elements and disposed of the CDs, cases and often the stores that sold them as well.That is why I like Zinio-a service that photographically reproduces the magazines, adds hyperlinks so you can go to any Web site... + READ MORE