Observing Earth Day 2012 Around The Globe

The world celebrated Earth Day yesterday, April 22nd. The first ever observance was actually held decades before, in 1970, after it was proposed by Gaylord Nelson, a US Senator. Over the years, millions of people have joined in observance of Earth Day across 175 countries. The idea is to help raise awareness and address environmental [...]

Tips to Maintaining an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle

Most people sometimes think that going with a green lifestyle requires big sacrifices and may be harder to stay committed to. But there are several simples ways you can do this, without having to encounter difficulty. 1.) Start getting used to bringing your own shopping bag when you’re doing groceries or purchasing something at the [...]

Making Your Place of Work Eco-Friendly

Whether you are a part of a small company, or a huge enterprise with a towering office, promoting an eco-friendly workplace can be an easy, cost-effective measure that will help reduce the impact created on the environment. Taking conscious steps to make your workplace greener not only helps improve your corner at work, it may [...]

Tips on Moving Out, the Eco-friendly Way

Moving out or transferring to a new house is a tiring process. It’s stressful and straining, not just to the you, who have to do all that packing and unpacking. It’s also straining for the environment. As you sort your stuff out, you will realize that there are plenty of things you probably won’t need [...]

Prisoners Recycle Mattresses to Dog Beds

Those old mattresses you throw away are finding much needed use as prisoners incarcerated at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Hutchinson, Kansas are recycling them to become dog beds for those animals who are in shelter and rehabilitation sites. This has been a project that has been going on for more than a year. And [...]

Gorgeous Recyled Handbags From Mini Roadster

As someone who loves handbags, I can say that I find this collection truly attractive and stylish. But can you imagine this set of handbags were actually made from this: In collaboration with Carmina Campus, who is the owner and designer of Ilaria Venturini Fendi, a luxury handbag brand, Mini Roadster is creating a line [...]

Building a Sustainable Eco-Friendly House

There’s a lot of consideration you have to think of when it comes to building a house and these days, even the very idea of building something sustainable has to also be included in the decisions. It’s one of the most conscientious choices you have to make, in order to live healthy and make the [...]

What to do with old Wire Hangers

If you’ve got a lot of wire hangers in the house from constantly dry-cleaning clothes and these are no longer useful, don’t throw these away just yet. Wire hangers can basically be reshaped and used for other things around the home. If you can’t return them to the dry-cleaners anymore, here’s what you can do [...]

How To Eliminate Plastic From Day To Day Activities

There is an increased awareness to the fact that using plastic is deemed as harmful to the environment. We now know that it’s the kind of product that takes long to decompose, filling up our landfills and causing major and critical pollution. Hence, we all do our best to try and use plastic less. However, [...]

Weird Recycling

I grew up on a little farm in a big family without a lot of resources. We reused, recycled or repurposed everything imaginable. A lot of my siblings worked at a diner and brought home 1-gallon glass mayonnaise jars, which we used as milk jugs for our cow.

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