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Global Decorating Tips

November 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · crafts, decor, Eco-Friendly, Green Home, Reduce/Recycle/Reuse, Shopping

How a home is decorated is an individual choice. Many choose an eclectic global decor that infuses collections that tell unique stories of travels to foreign lands. You don’t have to be a world traveler to appreciate design accents from around the globe. Want to spice up your home’s décor with an international flair? If [...]

To Toss Or To Shelve?

October 21st, 2010 · No Comments · DIY, Family, General, Green Home, Reduce/Recycle/Reuse

For those of you who seem to be nearing an age where you are ready to dispose of some of the accumulation of your youth, I ask you, “What do you do about all of your books?” New books are like precious kittens. We get a new book, we cuddle it, sometimes it lies prominently [...]

Living With Green Music

September 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · decor, Design, DIY, Eco-Friendly, Family, Green Home, Music, Reduce/Recycle/Reuse

Green-leaning musicians have been on the forefront of the environmental movement since its inception. From staging benefit concerts, to converting tour buses to biodiesel fuel, to creating solar recording studios, creative eco-conscious musicians have been reducing their impact on the planet. My son is a musician, and I’ve been trying to infuse eco-friendly elements into [...]

Sea Senses: Beach-Inspired Home Decor

June 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Design, DIY, Green Home, Inspiration, Nature, Reduce/Recycle/Reuse

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to [...]

Free Green Tutorials For Every Room

June 12th, 2010 · No Comments · DIY, Green Home, Reduce/Recycle/Reuse, Sustainable Living

Freebies and tutorials make my day. While the attraction may seem obvious, I’ll just elaborate: I love these online project tidbits because they present the ingenuity of the DIY spirit in all its flying colors! Tutorials are popping up all over the web. DIY tutorials are instructional lessons that lead the viewer through a series of step-by-step [...]

Ten Surprising Ways to Reuse Wine Bottles in Your Garden

June 12th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Design, DIY, Garden, Reduce/Recycle/Reuse

According to A Recycling Revolution, every year we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill a giant skyscraper. The energy that could be saved from recycling one glass bottle could provide 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution. One glass wine bottle takes 4,000 years or more to decompose – longer if [...]

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Scrap Happy: 6 Ingenious Things to Make From Scraps

June 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Art, Design, DIY, Knitting, Reduce/Recycle/Reuse

Breathe new life into old objects and reduce landfill waste by diverting leftover odds and ends that would be relegated to the dumpster into useful items. Call it repurposing, call it recrafting, call it creative reuse, or call it trash transformed. No matter what you call it, this concept of “cradle to cradle” is one [...]

Reduce, Redecorate and Reconsider What Belongs to You

May 13th, 2010 · No Comments · decor, Design, Eco-Friendly, Green Home, Inspiration, Reduce/Recycle/Reuse, Shopping, Sustainable Living

Can you reconcile reducing consumption while creating a cozy and stylish home? I am a bit of a redecorating junkie. While I would like to always practice what I preach, on occasion I am guilty of impulse buying for my econest. I can’t kick myself too much because on close inspection, if I hold a mirror up [...]

No More Plastic Hangers: An Eco-Friendly Project

September 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · crafts, decor, DIY, Eco-Friendly, Green Home, Reduce/Recycle/Reuse, Sustainable Living

Have you ever noticed that no matter how many hangers you have, there’s never enough? Since hangers are the essential element for closet organizing, the choices are just a few – plastic, wire and cardboard (from the dry cleaner), wood, and fuzzy coated wire. I’ve mostly waved good-bye to the eco-unfriendly dry cleaner, and stopped [...]