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Going green starts at home, and gardening can be a great way to be a bit more sustainable, help the environment but also grow your own beautiful flowers or fresh vegetables. From guerrilla gardening to great plant stories and planting tips and tricks, here are some ways to make your home a more amazing and eco-friendly place.

Arms Length Pets: 10 Leashed Animals to Collar Your World

Please re-leash me, let me go! These 10 leashed animals illustrate our need to keep animals close and pets even closer, regardless of race, creed or collar.

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Plant-Integrated Furniture: 12 Ways to Bring Greenery Inside

Grow herbs, flowers, ferns and other plants indoors in the most unexpected places - planters built into tables, chairs, lights and even exercise equipment.

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Gulp! 8 Strange, Unusual and Adorable Baby Spoons

Feeding time means show time! These 8 strange, unusual and adorable baby spoons give you the scoop – literally – on shoveling nutrients with civilized style.

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Tiny Living at its Cheapest: The $200 Micro-Home

Derek Diedricksen builds incredibly ingenious tiny houses from reclaimed 'junk' like washing machine parts and plastic jugs for as little as $200 each.

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Another Terra: Mini Greenhouse for Other Planets

Another Terra, by Studio Besau-Marguerre, is a terrarium to go: made with a special leather harness, it's perfect for travel to other planets.

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Beautifully Buzzworthy: 12 Designs Inspired by Bees

These 12 designs for jewelry, furniture, home decor and even entire residential towers all take visual and symbolic inspiration from bees.

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Repurposed Robot Prints 3D Furniture from Trash

A Dutch designer reprogrammed an old industrial machine to create 3D-printed chairs from old refrigerators that would otherwise have ended up in landfills.

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14 More Modern Tiny Houses & Backyard Getaways

These 14 tiny house designs, from backyard offices to fully-functional self-contained residences, prove that living small can be chic and modern.

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Put a Bird On It! 15 Bird-Themed Items for the Home

Take a cue from Portlandia and Put A Bird On It. These 15 bird-shaped and bird-inspired home decor and furniture items are too cute to resist.

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Bag Dippers: 10 Cute, Cool, Caffeine-Free Tea Infusers

These 10 cute, cool and caffeine-free tea infusers add a dash of sustainable fun to your pukka cuppa while mellowing out tea parties of all persuasions.

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Green Kitchen Makeover: 20+ Eco-Friendly Choices

Explore the eco-friendly, non-toxic choices available for cabinets, countertops, flooring and more before you set out to build or remodel your kitchen.

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Plant Outside the Box: 14 Strange & Unusual Gardening Products

Sprouting paper faces, fertilizing gnomes, seed bomb slingshots and wearable planters are among these 14 strange, smart and innovative gardening products.

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DIY Greenhouses: 10 Structures You Can Build Yourself

These 10 DIY greenhouse ideas range from super-simple miniature seed starters to beautiful full-scale greenhouses made of reclaimed windows.

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Gardens to Go: Tiny Colorful Bike Planters

Take a miniature garden on all of your eco-friendly travels by strapping on an adorable, colorful pot by Wearable Planters.

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All About Cob: A Sculptural, Natural Building Material

Cob is a natural, low-cost building material with sculptural qualities that can be used to create complex houses, garden walls, pizza ovens, benches and more.

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