Just because you're not using something doesn't mean it's trash. That's the message ReBuilders Source wants you to hear. VJ Movement went to the worke...

In these days of increasing disposable commodities, few people would bother with the effort of trying to repair a broken item, or perhaps not even ima...

Guest post by The Daily Green Can't Decide if It's Clutter or Treasure? Read This Eight organizations that will give new life to your old stuff. Go o...

Guest Post From The Daily Green We love it when people repurpose old things to solve new problems. Aluminum foil is the most recent one, following ...

Worldwide, 2.7 million tons of plastic are used each year to make disposable drinking bottles. Manufacturing these bottles requires an estimated 47 mi...

See-through Cancer? I *knew* there was a reason I hate plastic-wrapped pastries in cafes..! ...Oh, right, PVC=cancer and other evils for our heal...

"Going green," may seem like a new movement, but the concepts behind it are not. As we ring in a new decade today, we thought it would be fun to look...

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. ...

Here at HuffPost Green, we are all for the three Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle. We love to hear about people finding new and creative ways to reuse every...

Unfortunately, there is more to sustainable living than just recycling. Recycling is good, but it is even better not to use disposable goods if possible.

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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, ...

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.