Articles tagged “Reduce Reuse Recycle”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

4 Reuses for Stale Bread By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Sep 11 2008 Just yesterday when you bought that French bread it was still warm as you pulled through its crusty outer layer and found a soft pillow of freshly baked goodness inside. But today, not so much. That bread has gone from enticing to useless in just a day's time. Or has it? Here are four quick reuses for that day old bread. + READ MORE

3 Ways to Green Your Canoeing Trip By Brian Merchant IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 11 2008 Canoeing is among the most popular activities to do on the water out there—and what's not to love? The solitude of paddling upon open ocean (or lake or river), the prospect of venturing into uncharted territory, and a thorough workout—it's pretty much got all the bases covered. + 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

Easy Ways to Green: Sign Up for E-Bills By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Sep 11 2008 Get rid of those paper bills. I say it frankly since this green tip is simple and quick—and yet it could help prevent pounds of paper waste a year. The best part is, you don't even have to get up from your computer, and you could be done greening in a matter of minutes. + READ MORE

How to Reuse Broken Mirrors By Elizabeth Seward IN Home & Garden Sep 10 2008 Recently, my roommate broke the full-body mirror that was in her bedroom. Initially, she was going to just throw it away but I started thinking of ways in which we could use the shattered mirror instead. Most recycling organizations don't accept broken glass and that only leaves it one place to go: a landfill. You'll have a hard time trying to rid yourself of a shattered mirror by way of freecycling, so my advice is to just use your imagination. If you've got shattered glass/mirror around your house, here are some ways that I used our mirror that broke and maybe you can, too. + READ MORE

5 Reuses for: Shower Curtains By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Sep 10 2008 When it's time to paint your walls, cover the ground with a shower curtain. You'll never need to use paint thinner on your floors again. You can also use the curtain as a tarp for camping-as the base for a tent or for a bear bag. + READ MORE

Teachers: 3 Ways To Green Up Your Classroom By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Sep 9 2008 Most teachers realize this because it goes without saying, but teachers, generally speaking, have a large amount of influence over their students. Students, by default, normally feel obligated to do as a teacher asks in the classroom. This means that one single teacher can cause an entire class to become more eco-friendly, and that is a remarkable thing. + READ MORE

Score Used Instruments on Craigslist, Don't Buy New By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Sep 9 2008 If there's one thing that musicians definitely love, it's their musical toys. Speaking from experience, I know that there is hardly anything more exciting than a new guitar. This excitement carries over to all instruments, really. The only problem with getting excited about new instruments, in my opinion, is that new instruments require new materials. They require new trees being chopped down, new materials being used (plastics, polishes, etc.), and more energy wasted on the over all production. Although it can be really tough to resist the urge to buy something brand new when you want an instrument, I encourage you to think twice. + READ MORE

How to Reuse Your Old Scrabble Board By Elizabeth Seward IN Home & Garden Sep 9 2008 I recently started revamping my apartment. To be fair, I do this regularly, but I've been a whole lot more thorough this time around. As with any revamping process, you realize while in it that you've got a lot of things lying around your home that you may not need or ever use. I had totally forgotten that I had an old Scrabble set under one of my couches, for instance. I looked at it when I pulled it out, covered with dust, unsure of what to do with it. The idea of getting rid of it really pained me because it was the Scrabble board that my family grew up with. I remember countless games oriented around that one board when I was a child. + READ MORE

Size Up Your Office Snacks and Scale Down By Kati Stevens IN Work & Connect Sep 8 2008 Who doesn't love it when people bring goodies to the office? Bagels, doughnuts, cupcakes—doesn't matter much to me if it's healthy, just so long as it's free and yummy. But my office is small, and the few of us who work there are, by and large, picky eaters, which makes me wonder, why do people bring in a lot of one thing? Just because a dozen is the amount doughnut purveyors in which prefer to sell their rings of delicious evil doesn't mean that?s how many you have to buy when there are only eight people in your office, three of whom don't go near refined sugar without gloves and a mask on. + READ MORE

Make Your Own Rain Sticks: Decorate and Reuse at Same Time By Elizabeth Seward IN Home & Garden Sep 3 2008 Rain sticks don't have to be just for children. In fact, they are really great additions to any home if done the right way. The best part? They can be made completely from things around your home. Rain sticks are a great way to make use of the loose items in your junk drawers, not to mention paper towel/toilet paper tubes. Since they're so wonderfully crafted and sold in many gift stores, many adults write off homemade rain sticks as a project just for kids. I beg to differ! Here's what I did for a rain stick once that still eloquently decorates my home-you can do it, too! + READ MORE

Wa$ted: Trash! The Cavellero Family By Team Planet Green IN Wasted Sep 2 2008 The Cavellero family admits they are not green. But are they ready for Annabelle and Holter to arrive delivering six months worth of their garbage? Watch the reaction of this family as they see what producing three times as much... + READ MORE

The Necklace Challenge: Make a Necklace While Buying Nothing By Team Planet Green IN Fashion & Beauty Sep 2 2008 I like: necklaces. I dislike: paying way too much for them when I can make them myself. I challenged myself yesterday to make a necklace that I love without buying anything at all. I searched around my home to get some ideas. I looked for items that I wasn't using any longer. I looked for items that meant something to me so that I could be sure I'd really love the necklace. + READ MORE

3 Reuses for Incense Sticks By Elizabeth Seward IN Home & Garden Aug 29 2008 There's not a much better way for me to wake up than with the smell of incense burning...and I know I'm not the only one who feels this way. Something about that fragrant smoke can be incredibly calming and motivation enough to keep buying incense routinely. However, I was looking at my collection of incense sticks, left over from the burning the other day, and I asked myself what Ed would say about them all. Surely he'd be able to think of cool ways to reuse incense sticks, so I put myself to the challenge and came up with some neat ideas that you may be able to use, too. + READ MORE

Make an Electronics Case From Mismatched Socks By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 29 2008 Most of us have some socks lying around that have lost their match. There's something about dryers that just absolutely consumes socks, if you ask me. With all of these spares lying around, it's natural that we wonder what use we can make of these socks. After all, wasting is terrible and the main objective for most green-minded folk is to figure out how to reuse as often as possible. + READ MORE

Make Jewelry From Your Old Shoes By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 29 2008 Nothing pains me more than having to dispose of old shoes that are too worn down to pass onto anyone else. It's so much easier to part ways with shoes when I know that a friend, or local thrift store, can use the shoes. So what do we do with the shoes that we've worn to the bone? For the most part, they're not equipped to be waste. Thinking of alternative uses for these shoes is something I've been working on lately and I finally came up with something: Jewelry + READ MORE

Top 3 Ways To Make Safe Use of Toxic Nail Polish By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 27 2008 There are some very good and some very bad things about nail polish. One of the good things is that nail polish is remarkably cheap and comes in almost every color imaginable. This makes lots of ladies smile. The bad news is that it's pretty toxic for our environment and typically lays around the house much longer than it should. In fact, it seems as though most ladies have a habit of collecting lots of colors but never quite using all of the paint. Over the past few years, I've slowly started to incorporate my nail polish paint into art projects that lay outside of the realm of my nails. Here are my top 3. + READ MORE

Make Your Own Eco Blush with Strawberries By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 25 2008 Have you ever stopped to wonder what is in your makeup? After all, you're spreading it all over your face and there's no way you can avoid some of it sinking into your pores. I have personally heard horror stories about some of the ingredients in makeup. + READ MORE

5 Reuses for: Bowls By Natalie Cook IN Home & Garden Aug 18 2008 When reusing an old bowl is your goal, turn to your favorite repurpose person for some great ideas.Don't worry about spending any money on your pup's water dish when you find an old bowl you wish to ditch. + READ MORE

Make a Dress from Recycled Fabric By Blythe Copeland IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 14 2008 I've never been especially handy with a needle and thread, but having a basic grasp of sewing lets you replace buttons, sew seams, and lengthen hems instead of trashing old clothes and buying new. And if you're gung-ho enough about greening your closet to attempt to make your own clothes, this easy shirred-dress tutorial from Threadbanger.com can help. + READ MORE