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Fabulous Fundraisers Use Fashion For a Good Cause

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 11.25.2009 | Style

Read More: Sustainable Living, Sustainable Design, Zareinu Fashion Show, Sustainable Fashion, Fashion Industry, Eco Fashion, Environmentalism, Eco-Friendly, Frocktail Party, Zareinu School, Fashion Week, Reduce, Fashion Trends, Canadian Designers, R4 Fashion, Recycle, Canadian Fashion, Reuse, Sustainability, Fashion, Fundraising, Children's Health, Fundraisers, Style News
Marissa Bronfman

Fashionphiles flocked to the first annual Frocktail Party on November 12th, eager to bid on a bevy of designer dresses up for auction in support of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

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Recycle A Rubber Hose Into A Cheap, Comfy Chair

Dornob Design | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Reuse, Green Living, Furniture, Recycle, Green Furniture, Green News

A few pieces of plywood, threaded metal rods, washers and bolts are all that is needed to construct the supporting elements on the sides of the seat. ...

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Life Cycles of Consumable Goods: Lower-Impact Shades of Green

Renée Loux | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Fuel, Energy, No Impact Week, Lifestyle, Local, Renewable Energy, Green, Manufacturing, Personal Care Products, Recycled, Low-Impact, Lifecycle, Green Living, No Impact, Consumption, Paper, Home, Reduce, Consumerism, Nontoxic, Recycle, Green News, Environment, Reuse, Plastic, Food, Nontoxic Products, Green News
Renée Loux

Understanding the "life-cycle" of any consumable good offers a fairly accurate sense of how "green" it really is -- basically, where things come from and what happens to them when we are done with them.

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11 Creative Ways To Recycle Packing Peanuts

thedailygreen.com | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Polystyrene, Sustainable Shipping, Recycle, Recycle Materials, Reuse, Green Living, Packing Peanuts, Shipping, Green News

Traditional packing peanuts are made out of polystyrene and are now color coded to indicate the origin of the material they contain. Polystyrene takes...

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Reduce, Recycle, Reuse: Dwell Showhouse's Ecofabulous Design (PHOTOS)

Ecofabulous | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Ebay, Dwell, Prefab, Architecture, Reuse, Slidehuge, Dwell Showhouse, Green Living, Green Design, Ecofabulous, Eco-Designers, Green Furniture, Interior Design, Green News

Guest post from Ecofabulous Ever since Jack Johnson turned "reduce, reuse, recycle" into something you hum on your morning commute, people have been ...

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Recycling Plastic: What a Waste

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental, Recycle, Styrene, Gyre, Single Use Plastics, Plastic-Pollution, Bpa, Reuse, Body Burden, Birth Defects, Cancer, Plastic Bottles, Petrochemical, Phthalates, Green Chemistry, Sups, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Every day, single-use plastics ("SUPs" bottles, bags, packaging, utensils, etc.) made from petrochemicals are thrown away in huge quantities after one use, but they will last virtually forever.

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The New Face of Fashion: Sustainable Luxury

Jeffrey Hutchison | Posted 09.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Green Fashion, Retail Industry, Green Architecture, Retail Sales, Eco Fashion, Architecture, Retail, Department Stores, Fashion/Apparel, Fashion Trends, American Consumerism, Profitable Businesses, Corporate Sustainability, Consumerism, Recycle, Advertising, Recycled Materials, Reuse, Sustainability, Marketing, American Consumers, Style News
Jeffrey Hutchison

Embracing sustainability and crafting a new face of luxury need not be at odds; by exploring ways to achieve both simultaneously, an exciting new era of of design can be borne.

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David de Rothschild's Fantastic Plastic Bottle Boat

Grist | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Recycle Plastic, Recycle, Recycled Materials, Plastic Bottles, Environment, Green, Plastic, Reuse, Reuse Plastic Bottles, David De Rothschild, Green News

The Plastiki is the latest project of British environmentalist and polar adventurer David de Rothschild, the 31-year-old scion of the famous banking f...

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Story of Reusing The City: Welcome to High Line

Richard Laermer | Posted 07.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Values, Parks, Trendspotting, Reuse, Trends, Green Living, High Line, Friends of the High Line, Bryant Park, New York City, New York, New York News
Richard Laermer

Here, a town with many (other) problems turned an eyesore into what New Yorkers value most -- a public space that cost us nothing out of pocket.

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Vintage Slides Reused In One-Of-A-Kind Handbags

dornob | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Reuse, Green Living, Reuse for Slides, Recycled Fashion, Giy, Green News

Comprised of high-quality materials all around, the slides that are used in each unique bag have been gathered and grouped by all kinds of themes incl...

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Brooklyn To Get A Putt-Putt Course With Repurposed Obstacles

nytimes.com | TIM McKEOUGH | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Mini Golf, Golf, Green Entertainment, Reuse, Brooklyn-New York, New York, Green News

The course, which opens for the season June 6, occupies a lot at 12 Wyckoff Avenue that was a former dumping ground for everything from broken toilets...

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Broken Earbuds Become Eco-Earrings

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Reuse, Green Living, E-Waste, Reducing Waste, Giy, Green News

Headphones are some of the toughest things to reuse. To add to that problem, cheap earbud headphones (you know, the kind that came with your iPod) are...

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4 Reuses For Newly Closed Car Dealerships: Green Urban Planning

thedailygreen.com | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Cars, Green Urban Planning, Reuse, Car Dealerships, Green News

A car dealership is perhaps the greatest symbol of the car-dominated strip mall culture that has defined (and one could say decimated) American neighb...

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In The Future, We All Carry Mugs

The Green Gathering | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Incentives, Reuse, Green Living, Reusable Mug, Coffee, Giy, Green News

Coffeehouses should reward people who bring their own, such as knocking $0.50 off the price. They already sell mugs, for Peet's sake....

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Reused Gutters Form A Vertical Victory Garden

greenUPGRADER | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Eating Matters, Victory Gardens, Environment, Reuse, Kitchen Gardens, Gardening, Green Living, Giy, Green News

When Suzanne Forsling moved to Juneau Alaska from Iowa, she found that it was a little bit harder to get her garden to grow. Frustrated by cold soil, ...

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Six Earth Day Activities for Your Classroom

Ted Wells | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Earth Day Lesson Plans, Education, Eduction, Earth Day Worksheets, Recycle, Earth Day, Build, Parthenon, Earth Day Activities, Environment, Reuse, Teachers, Reduce, Earth Day Activities for Schools, Earth Day Classroom Activities, Earth Day Worksheet, Earth Day Activities for Kids, Green News
Ted Wells

Here are six activities that my fourth grade classroom at The Park School in Brookline, MA has been working on leading up to Earth Day.

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Reuses For Yogurt, Cream Cheese And Other Plastic Tubs

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Plastic, Reuse, Green Living, Reducing Waste, Giy, Green News

Sometimes you end up with a lot of plastic. It's OK. It can be hard to avoid. Did you know that yogurt tubs can't be recycled with everything else? ...

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Reuse Magazines: Donate Them To Hospitals

thedailygreen.com | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Reuse, Green Living, Giy, Magazines, Green News

Instead of throwing your old magazines out, take them to a hospital for the patients and their families, or take them to a nursing home. They will bri...

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Reuse Water From Cooking Veggies

recyclethis.co.uk | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Reuse, Water Use, Eating Matters, Reducing Waste, Water, Green News

Like with the freshly boiled water from Wednesday, it seems a waste of power to just power it down the drain when we're done. With pasta or potatoes,...

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Delicious Reuse: An Empty Ketchup Bottle For Pancake Batter

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Reuse, Food, Green Living, Giy, Reuse for Ketchup Bottles, Green News

Nothing says "lazy Saturday" better than homemade pancakes slathered in maple syrup and hours of cartoons (and no, we don't mean just for kids). Real ...

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Found, Reused Art: Cassette Tape Rock Star Portraits

flickr | ir15 | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Cassette Tape Portraits, Reuse, Green Living, Reused Cassette Tapes, Found Art, Green News

From the artist's profile: I am an artist who specializes in using non traditional media... old books, cassettes, playing cards, magazines, credit ...

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Old Hair Is For The Birds: They'll Use It For A Nest

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 04.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Reuse, Green Living, Reusing Hair, Animals, Hair, Poll, Green News

Planet Green often has great tips on what to do with stuff you want to get rid of. Today, they offer up the idea of donating your hair. That's great, ...

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Turning Jalopies Into Homes

Grist | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Cars, Reuse, Housing Market, Recycling Cars, Green News

Salvage is nothing new in the building industry. The deconstruction business -- dismantling houses to reuse their parts, from timber framing to copper...

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Plantr To Use Unwanted Phones To Arm Urban Farmers

treehugger.com, Plantr | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Reusing Cell Phones, Farming, Plantr, Urban Farming, Recycling Cell Phones, Reuse, Green Technology, Green News

What a cool idea -- stopping cell phones from being recycled by reusing them. But the coolest part is what Plantr wants to use them for: What if the...

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4 Green Projects For Your Small Apartment

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 04.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycled Design, Bidon Lamp, Reuse, Recycled Furniture, Green Living, Giy, Green Technology, Small Green Projects, Green News

Planet Green got inspired (as did we) by the efforts of Barcelona-based designers who are trying to make urban living a lot greener. So they've outlin...

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