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Buy Recycled Paper Products By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 4 2008 If you've been meaning to see the forest for the trees, slip the National Resources Defense Council's guide to household paper products in your pocket the next time you go shopping for toilet paper, facial tissues, paper towels, and other disposable paper products. The impact of purchasing products with high recycled... + READ MORE

Recycle Your Christmas Tree By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 26 2007 Trust us, recycling your Christmas tree after you've undecked your halls will be a whole lot easier than returning that gaudy appliqué sweater from Cousin Janine or swallowing another morsel of your sister's rock-hard fruitcake. Try "treecycling" your castoff conifer, instead: Many municipalities offer curbside pickup + 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

Detox Your Home: Assemble a Green Cleaning Kit By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 18 2007 What's not to love about mixing your own cleaning products from tried-and-tested formulas? Oven Cleaner 1 cup or more baking sodawaterA squirt or two of liquid detergent Sprinkle water generously over the bottom of the oven, then cover the grime with enough baking soda that the surface it totally white. + READ MORE

Plant a Tree with Every Book You Read By Collin Dunn IN Work & Connect Dec 17 2007 Books are always popular gifts this time of year, and we like the idea of giving the gift of knowledge, but it remains that books are printed on paper, and paper comes (mostly) from trees. And the new trees do more than just give us something to hug, including (but certainly not limited to) carbon dioxide absorption... + 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

Give Shortbread Cookies for Christmas By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Dec 13 2007 My mother has been using this shortbread recipe for about 60 years and I've been using it for about 30 years. I volunteer at my local library helping kids do their homework, and I'm taking my cookies there as a treat for the kids and the library staff.Joyce Rossiter's Shortbread Cookies 1 cup butter2 cups flour1/2 cup... + 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

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

Just Say No to Automated Receipts By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 7 2007 Most of us ask for a printed confirmation, almost by rote, when we withdraw money from an ATM or purchase a ticket from a subway machine. + READ MORE

Deck Out a Greener Christmas Tree By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 7 2007 This Christmas, instead of getting a El Fake-o tree most likely made from noxious PVC (and shipped from China), or a questionably harvested, pesticide-ridden cut tree that could haul in glad tidings of chlorpyriforus (a suspected neurotoxin, ho ho ho) and other chemicals into your living room, consider a living... + READ MORE

Get Your Kids to Eat Their Veggies From the Beginning By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Dec 7 2007 Apparently, getting your kids to eat their veggies goes way beyond being a good role model.According to new research from the Monell Chemical Senses Center, if you're breast feeding, eating vegetables will encourage your children to eat them later. So, a baby learns to like a food's taste when the mother eats that food + 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

Create E-Cards, Slide Shows, Scrapbooks with Smilebox By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Dec 6 2007 E-cards get a jazzed-up makeover at Smilebox, an online service that lets you add photos, video, music, and other personalizations to e-cards, slide shows, photo books, and digital scrapbooks. Pony up .99 to purchase a premium design you can send without ads, or sign up for Club Smilebox for .99 per month (or... + READ MORE

Move in With Someone By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 4 2007 Divorce isn't just traumatic for your kids, it's also a strain on the environment, according to a new study by researchers at Michigan State University. A snapshot of the United States in 2005 revealed that divorced households occupied an additional 38.5 million more rooms, 73 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, and + READ MORE

Win Arguments with Difficult Relatives By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 4 2007 If you expect to be the lone environmentalist at the dinner table this festive season-and you're dreading the jabbing arguments that will undoubtedly fly your way as you poke at your mushy peas and mashed potatoes-practice cracking the tougher nuts on your family tree with Sierra Club's holiday survival guide. + READ MORE

Build an Electronic LED Hanukkiyah By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Dec 3 2007 Christmas trees used to have real candles, but moved to electric lights and now LED lights for obvious reasons. They are traditionally lit in a sequence; one as the lighter candle (the higher shamash) which is used to light the other eight, one of the first night, two on the second etc, totalling 44 candles over the... + READ MORE

Get Your Kids to Eat Their Veggies: Creative Labelling By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Dec 3 2007 Here's a thought. He calls this "confirmation bias" "If you say something is juicy, people almost unconsciously turn up their -juicy sensors' when they taste the food,'' he writes. "Once these taste sensors are activated, people become preprogrammed to think a dish tastes good.''At the Cornell lab, Dr. Wansink tested... + READ MORE

Knit a Tree Skirt, Get a Capelet By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Nov 30 2007 Yarn company Berroco has a free knitting pattern for a honey-comb-style cabled tree skirt you can button around the old Tannenbaum. + 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