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Fabric Flowers from Your Scrap Bin [Craft Recycled Tutorial]

Fabric Flowers from Your Scrap Bin [Craft Recycled Tutorial]

Conventional cut flowers are bad news. Those lovely bouquets come from far away, and that means a gigantic carbon footprint along with your bunch of Gerbera daisies. Not to mention the water it takes to grow all of those flowers that live for a few days before wilting in their vases.

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Eco-Friendly Tissue Tips for Stuffy Noses

Eco-Friendly Tissue Tips for Stuffy Noses

We’re right in the thick of cold and flu season, and if you’re anything like me, this chilly weather is not doing your nose any favors. Rather than relying on paper from virgin forests to clear your sinuses, let’s talk about some better tissue options!

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Top 9 DIY Posts of 2009

Top 9 DIY Posts of 2009

Here at greenUPGRADER we really got into DIY in 2009. As the year comes to an end lets take a look back at some of the most popular DIY posts at gUP this year...

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Craft Recycled: Greeting Cards and Wrapping Paper

Craft Recycled: Greeting Cards and Wrapping Paper

The gifts are unwrapped, the out of town guests have made their way home, and you’re probably staring at a mountain of gift wrap and cards feeling a bit of the old green guilt. Don’t you fret! With just a little crafty love, you can keep the spoils of Christmas day out of the bin!

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Green Wrapping: DIY Cardboard Pillow Box

Green Wrapping: DIY Cardboard Pillow Box

If you've taken the "Buy Handmade" challenge this year why stop there? Inspired by Doug's post last year about turning a cereal box into an eco-friendly gift box, I endeavored to make a pillow box this year.

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Craft Recycled: Brooke and Ben’s DIY Wedding

Craft Recycled: Brooke and Ben’s DIY Wedding

Weddings in the U.S. produce, on average, 63 tons of CO2 and 400-600 pounds of trash. That’s for one wedding! With over 2.5 million weddings per year in this country, that adds up to a crazy amount of pollution and waste. When Brooke and her fiance Ben got engaged, they knew they wanted no [...]

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Craft Recycled: No-Sew Owl Ornament from Recycled Felt

Craft Recycled: No-Sew Owl Ornament from Recycled Felt

I thought it would be fun to take Craft Recycled in a new direction this week with a holiday-themed tutorial! It’s about time for tree-trimming parties, and ornaments make lovely hostess gifts. You could even get crazy and make a whole flock of wise little owls for your own tree! Ready to get crafting? [...]

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Reduce, Reuse, Refashion: An Interview with Nichola Prested

Reduce, Reuse, Refashion: An Interview with Nichola Prested

Nichola Prested is passionate about fashion and about sustainability. While looking for a way to expand her wardrobe without putting pressure on her wallet or on the planet, she stumbled into something bigger. What started as a project just for her quickly turned into the collective blog, Wardrobe Refashion, which Green My Style voted [...]

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Craft Recycled: Corrugated Cardboard, Tofu Boxes, Socks and Stockings

Craft Recycled: Corrugated Cardboard, Tofu Boxes, Socks and Stockings

As much as we try to reduce, it seems like our recycle and trash bins still manage to slowly fill up. Rather than feel guilty, you can put your crafty skills to work and upcycle those materials into something useful! This week we’ve got projects for corrugated cardboard, empty tofu boxes, and worn out socks [...]

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Craft Recycled: 11 More Project Ideas Straight from the Trash Bin

Craft Recycled: 11 More Project Ideas Straight from the Trash Bin

Last week, we took a look at craft projects for empty wine and beer bottles, scrap paper, and empty glass jars. Really though, that’s just a small part of the things we trash that can be useful again! After the jump, we’ve got some projects for empty cans, plastic bottles, and laminated cardboard, but we’d [...]

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