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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.

Avant Garde Gardening: 15 Modern Tools & Accessories

Modernize all of those rusty tools and accessories in your shed with these 15 sleek and sophisticated contemporary gardening implements.

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Painted Pastures: 7 Amazing Colorful Fields & Meadows

Spanning the spectrum from deepest violet to brightest white, these 7 amazing colorful fields and meadows challenge photographers' eyes as well as their noses.

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Crawling Bling: Trippy Tropical Jewel Caterpillars

Jewel Caterpillars of the genus Dalceridae include some of the most beautiful caterpillars you've ever laid eyes on. Just be sure you look and don't touch!

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Green Putting: 5 Environmentally Friendly Golf Balls

Go for the green! By keeping their eyes on the ball, a number of golf ball manufacturers are slowly but surely making the Skins Game a more sustainable one.

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14 Relaxing, Beautiful & Productive Urban Rooftop Gardens

Lush green space is rare in cities, but more and more rooftops - like these 14 - are becoming hidden green getaways, complete with water features & wildlife.

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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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