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Postcarden: From Greeting Card to Edible Garden

Postcarden: From Greeting Card to Edible Garden

Oh, greeting cards! You make us feel so torn. Yes, conventional greeting cards have a super-short lifespan, but there’s something about getting a card in the mail for special occasions.

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Repurposed Pallet Adirondack Chair

Repurposed Pallet Adirondack Chair

What do you get when you try to solve a neighborhood problem from an industrial design perspective? Designer Shelton Davis did just that and came up with an amazing repurposed chair built from pallet wood that otherwise would have headed for the landfill.

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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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Why Artificial Christmas Trees Are Worth Considering

Why Artificial Christmas Trees Are Worth Considering

In the past when I visited people during the holidays and saw that they were using artificial Christmas trees rather than real ones, I thought they were just being lazy. The only reason they didn’t want a real one I figured was because they either didn’t have space for a real tree, didn’t want to [...]

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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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Remarkable Repairs

Remarkable Repairs

Nothing’s greener than getting your mend on. Of course it’s easy to do the conventional fix, like sewing up a torn seam. Sometimes, though, it’s fun to take a peek at some more creative solutions. Platform 21 recently held a Remarkable Repairs Contest, and they’re picking their favorite on August 30th. Here are a few of [...]

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Handmade Reusable Lunch Bag

Handmade Reusable Lunch Bag

If you are going green on the go, when it’s time for lunch you need to lose the brown bag, tin foil, seran wrap and paper napkins.  You could fill your pockets with potato salad or get a reusable lunch bag and a bento lunch box.  Our friend and write  Becky from Glue & Glitter [...]

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Space Saving DIY Upside Down Herb Planters

Space Saving DIY Upside Down Herb Planters

I was reading some comments on an organic gardening post in which apartment dweller were lamenting that they don’t have the room to garden.  Don’t tell that to Mike Lieberman (@CanarsieBK), the force behind UrbanOrganicGardener.com.  Actually, I’m sure he’d be happy to hear from you and he’d share some great tips, like these upsidedown hanging [...]

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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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Etsy Finds to Help You Waste Less in the Kitchen

Etsy Finds to Help You Waste Less in the Kitchen

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 [...]

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