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Happy Tequila Day: 4Copas Organic Tequila

Happy Tequila Day: 4Copas Organic Tequila

In honor of National Tequila Day we are featuring 4Copas Organic Tequila.  I’ve had the pleasure of trying their Anejo and their Blanco and both were top notch.  What I like so much about 4Copas, besides being USDA certified organic and tasting good, they have put a lot care into their process. To start, 4Copas uses [...]

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Closing the Poop Loop: DIY Humanure Toilet

Closing the Poop Loop: DIY Humanure Toilet

When you’re going green you can’t be afraid to talk a little trash or to talk sh!t, so lets get to it.  The conventional toilet is not very environmentally friendly.  New low flow toilets, dual flush toilets and grey water systems can help reduce water waste but there’s another kind of waste happening when you [...]

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Bags Reincarnated by Juja and Stone

Bags Reincarnated by Juja and Stone

Juja & Stone breath new life into old clothes and handbags creating these uniquely refashioned pieces.  Sourceing their materials from dontaions and thrift stores, each bag is one of a kind easy on the environment.

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DIY Vertical Herb Garden with a Shoe Organizer

DIY Vertical Herb Garden with a Shoe Organizer

Confounded by vegetable digging cats and toiling in the vegetable patch, Instructables member pippa5 came up with this cool DIY vertical garden  solution.  In case you don’t recognize it, she used an old closet shoe organizer.  Meant to keep your shoes off the floor and save you some space, this new use saves some space [...]

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Piet Hein Eek: Reclaimed Wood Furniture

Piet Hein Eek: Reclaimed Wood Furniture

There are many roots to our addiction to consumption, but in this post I am going to discuss just one of them… aesthetics.  It’s funny that dispite the inherent aesthetic beauty of nature and the environemnt, our desire to make our own environments aesthetically pleasing can wreak havoc on the former.   Now obviously there [...]

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DIY Energy Saving Phone Charging Dock

DIY Energy Saving Phone Charging Dock

Here’s a great DIY to make your own power saving charging dock.  As most of you now know, when you plug your cell phone, or mp3 player (most things that have an AC adapter box built into the charger), that charger continues to draw electricity even when your device isn’t attached or charging.  This wastes [...]

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10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell’s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading [...]

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The Twittervore’s Dilemma

The Twittervore’s Dilemma

Twitter is the “All you can eat” buffet of social information on the web with selections that range from mundane to profound, inconsequential to game changing.  With millions of tweets being tweeted everyday the question remains, what should we read on Twitter?

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George: What’s Wrong with Self-Preservation?

George: What’s Wrong with Self-Preservation?

Sunday (not so) Funnies… Normally I find George Carlin hilarious and I have an affinity for poking fun at things that are important to me, but I was really disappointed when I watched his bit on “Saving the Planet,” (the video is at the end of the post).  I understand it’s just a comedy routine, and [...]

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Independence Day Reading Round-Up

Independence Day Reading Round-Up

Some of you may have noticed that the volume of posts on gUP have been a little light lately and it’s because we’ve been working on a couple projects that we are almost ready to unveil.  That being said we have been working hard over here and are planning on celebrating Independence Day with a [...]

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