Sheet rock and brand new lumber from the hardware store seem awfully boring – and incredibly wasteful – when you…
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Until recently, Fresh Kills landfill received most of the waste generated in New York City: some 38,000 tons every single…
Overall, more household waste is created in the kitchen than any other room. Food preparation generates organic waste, recyclable trash,…
Environmental art can take many forms. One of the most striking is when an artist takes a mass-produced material that…
(image via: wockerjabby) If you’ve waited a bit too long to take care of the people on your holiday gift…
Forward thinkers were some of the first environmentalists. Nowadays, most of us recycle. As always, one person’s trash is another…
Do you know what really happens to your electronics after you’re done with them? If you send them to a…
In the past few years, we’ve seen some interesting shifts take place between urban and suburban dwellers. Gas prices have…
Plastic drinking straws are one of the hallmarks of our disposable society. The little tubes are manufactured to be used…
You can always count on your grandma to make wonderful crafty things, but Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village in Simi Valley,…