Don’t Let Green Fatigue Get You Down

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Becky Striepe .

One of my Twitter pals, @elaan, recently tweeted, “I am producing less garbage and doing more recycling than I ever have, but I still have a long way to go. There’s more I can be doing!”

I think we all get overwhelmed sometimes. Technically, she’s right: we could all be doing more. Maybe [...]

Curbing Conspicuous College Consumption

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Matt Embrey .

Being a college student isn’t a license to carelessly ravage through raw materials, but we also can’t expect a 19 year old to buy an heirloom set of furniture that they intend to keep for the rest of their days on earth. There has to be a better way to accomodate the transient lifestyle of a student while reducing the volume of furniture that they consume.

Eco-friendly crafts made easy

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Liz Grotyohann .

Crafting stars Jeanée Ledoux & Garth Johnson step you through eleven, easy, fun projects based around the concepts of recycling and repurposing items to create hip new housewares. Not crafty? Don’t worry! The projects are all fundamentally very easy, yet with clever, cool end-products. If you can handle tracing, spray painting, and can maybe sink a screw, then you can master all of the projects on this disc.