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...
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,...
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 ...
From the artist's profile: I am an artist who specializes in using non traditional media... old books, cassettes, playing cards, magazines, credit ...
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, ...
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...
Salvage is nothing new in the building industry. The deconstruction business -- dismantling houses to reuse their parts, from timber framing to copper...
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...
Platform21 is "a platform for people curious about the future." They organize exhibitions and lectures from an old chapel in Amsterdam. Their current ...
There are plenty of crafty reuses for trophies. One can make a decorative yard ornament or put trophies in a terrarium with their turtle, or a person ...
This week I'm at a big climate conference in Washington, DC, and my wonderful hosts, Rachael and Bryan, have graciously tolerated my multiplying stack...
Jacob and Michelle Fausset have introduced Upcycled Jewelry, a line of jewelry made from circuit boards found in salvaged electronics. The company mak...
Bakus is the latest creation by Ciclus Designs and its founder, Tati Guimarães. The design comes from a straightforward idea: stop corks from going i...
I'm finding that I've got a lot of winter clothes that are too worn-out to keep, and Spring Cleaning is approaching. But I always found the idea of th...
Now there seems to be an answer to appeal to both the consumer and dry cleaner that makes "green sense:" The Green Garmento garment bag.
1. Online Buy Back Bre Software has an online buy back system. They offer a whopping 12 cents for Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever. BuyBack M...
1. Evaluate a product's packaging using these simple questions -- Is it without packaging or minimally packaged? -- Is the packaging marked as contain...
Rensselaer Polytechnic students Peter Zummo and Matthew Naples have developed a modern version of Heineken's Wobo (world bottle-here in TreeHugger and...
Ever wake up feeling like tossing all your textiles for a new color scheme? Color faded? Marked with a stain? Before you chuck perfectly good househol...
Sometimes when you're buying the latest eco-gear, you'll see that it brags about being made of "PET." What's PET, you ask? The short answer is that it...
E-waste is bad. This we've known for awhile now. We toss toxic gadgets left and right, often thinking they'll be recycled and therefore e-waste is pr...
Hotels are looking for new ways to run more efficiently and looking to nature to give them some ideas. The latest in green technology is allowing hote...
Switching over to reusable bags is a necessary change that we should all be making both a habit and a rule. Unfortunately, at times many people still ...
Turning trash into treasure is a way to survive -- dare I say come out ahead? -- in today's economy. What's wrong with reusing "stuff"?
For months now, Campania has been suffocating under heaps of uncollected garbage shipped from economically sound northern Italian regions to the much poorer south.
