Recycled Cardboard Speakers by Origaudio

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Tim Hurst .

Everyone travels with their music these days. Those white iPod earbuds are about as ubiquitous as the ears they are supposed to stay in. The problem is that sometimes you don’t want to be encumbered by headphones and wires or you might want to share your music with a friend or co-worker — and that’s when [...]

White House to LEED by Sustainable Example

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Beth Buczynski .

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For years environmental advocates have yearned for an ally in the White House. It’s all well and good to tell the rest of the world that they have to live more sustainably, but what about leading by example? Not since the days of Jimmy Carter and the solar panels has 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue truly been [...]

Art Glass: Bottles in the Sun

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Liz Grotyohann .

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Western Art Glass creates amazing art from reclaimed bottles: building a mobile from beer bottle bottoms, or wrestling a curving leaf from the side of a discarded wine bottle.

Gardening and Wine Drinking: A Match Made in DIY Heaven?

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Becky Striepe .

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We love to entertain and hate to toss out anything that might prove useful later on. Of course, what that means is quite a little collection of empty wine bottles and the corks to match.
Luckily, it’s time to get our Fall garden planted, and our boozy hoarding behavior might just pay off!

Etsy Finds to Keep Your Home Clean and Green

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Becky Striepe .

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Conventional household cleaners can be full of nasty stuff. They’re even linked to poor indoor air quality. Not only are there harsh chemicals involved, there’s a certain amount of waste — from disposable sponges to paper towels — that’s not so eco-friendly.
Don’t despair! Here are six products from Etsy to help [...]

DIY Upcycled Wine Bottle Gas Lamp

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Matt Embrey .

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Upcycle an old wine bottle into an eclectic porch gas lamp…
While I haven’t tried this DIY yet I think it’s my new favorite. Erik Anderson of Gerardot & Co. (a team of branding experts, creative marketers and designers) came up with this DIY when he was looking for a Tiki Style lamp to fend [...]

Piet Hein Eek: Reclaimed Wood Furniture

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Matt Embrey .

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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 [...]

Bringing Light to Trash

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Liz Grotyohann .

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I’m in the market for a new desk lamp, and these lamps from Breeze Block caught my eye last week while I was browsing Etsy. Now, I fear I am becoming a bit of a repurposing cynic after looking for recycled products day in and day out, but I like these lamps.

DIY Energy Saving Phone Charging Dock

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Matt Embrey .

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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 [...]

Etsy Finds to Help You Waste Less in the Kitchen

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Becky Striepe .

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So we’ve made the switch to recycled toilet paper in the name of saving virgin forests, but it turns out that the bathroom isn’t the only room in the house with the potential for producing lots of waste. Between paper towels and napkins and those sandwich baggies, your poor trash bin can fill up [...]