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The 5 Top Eco-Friendly Alternatives To Our Disposable Coffee C...
Posted by Elizah Leigh
Mon, Apr 12
From the moment we pull our heads off of the pillow in the early morning hours, many of us feel that the very best part about waking up is having some sort of caffeinated brew within arm’s reach to flood our system. Oh, sweet relief...
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Kicking It Old School For Charity: A Rags To Riches Story
Posted by Kieran K.
Fri, Mar 26
How many hole-infested socks do you think that you’ve chucked throughout the years…or air-conditioned shirts that always seem to disintegrate over time thanks to heavy laundering, encounters with sharp objects and the...
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8 Cool Recycling Programs That Accept Your Old Athletic Gear
Posted by Kieran K.
Sun, Mar 21
Recycle Your….Old BicycleThe non-profit New York City based organization Recycle-A-Bicycle accepts tax-deductable donations of old bicycles at either at their physical retail locations, via specially arranged Manhattan pickup...
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Recycle An Old Dress Into a Trendy DIY Burberry Skirt Copycat
Posted by Linda Lucille
Tue, Mar 16
Burberry’s Spring 2010 Prorsum collection includes what has fast become a highly coveted Italian made, 18 inch long viscose and silk “double reef knot skirt”, available directly from their website for the bud...
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Recycled Elephant Dung Heels Flirt With Sky-High Organic Style
Posted by Elizah Leigh
Sun, Mar 14
What goes in must ultimately find its way out, and as you can imagine with a typical Elephant -- which spends roughly 16 hours each day consuming 300–600 pounds of leafy greens, fruit, bark, grasses, shrubs and herbs -- that amounts...
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Mangled Skateboards Catch The Eco-Art Wave
Posted by Bob Kurz
Sun, Feb 28
Emerging out of the California surfboarding scene of the 40s and 50s, skateboarding enabled those who were forced by less than auspicious ocean waves to placate their need for speed by catching a ride down their closest sidewalk instead....
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Waste For Life: An Organization That Uses Trash To Alleviate P...
Posted by Kieran K.
Sun, Feb 28
Lifting people up out of poverty by helping them to transforming trash into treasure has been the main goal of Waste For Life (also known as basura por vida) since 2006. From its onset, two engineering researchers from Canada's Queen...
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Can Recycled "PET" Plastic Bottles Actually Save Lives?
Posted by Elizah Leigh
Wed, Feb 24
Those of us who are fortunate enough to live in the western world rarely give a passing thought to how we end up with a safe and secure roof over our heads. It's just there. We have more pressing things to concern ourselves with, like how...
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Enjoy "Freegan Fringe Benefits" Without Diving Directly Into A...
Posted by Bob Kurz
Tue, Feb 23
FIRST, THE BASICS: What's A Freegan? Simply put, a freegan is an alternative lifestyle strategist who prefers to eschew the typical trappings of modern society (as related to hyper-consumerism, materialism and the waste of valuable resou...
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Still Life With Post-Consumer Plastic
Posted by Bob Kurz
Sun, Feb 21
Among the greatest artistic muses to have ever inspired the creation of poetry, art and literature throughout history, the fairer sex has almost always topped the list. Anyone who dabbles in the arts knows that even creativity must on occ...
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