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Recycle Your Jeans at the Gap March 5-14, 2010

March 8, 2010

Photo by permission of Ben Donley
One of my most popular post is “Recycle your Blue Jeans.” I guess I have a lot of jean wearing, need to get rid of old jeans readers. Well, for a limited time, Gap is taking back old jeans as part of the CottontoBluetoGreen.org campaign. The time period is short: March [...]

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Sewing Must Have: The Energy Efficient See and Sew LED Light

February 25, 2010

How many of you sew? It is a lost art but really rewarding. I learned to sew in junior high and did not pick sewing back up until two years ago. While sewing window seat cushions, I found that I could no longer see when I was sewing. The little light on the machine and [...]

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LivingECHO Offers your Favorite Green Products all in One Place.

February 22, 2010

When I first perused the green product shopping website LivingECHO, my first thought what a great site for one stop shopping. I could click on many different organic and sustainable products from various environmentally minded companies and buy them right from the same site. Think of an open food market place where there are all [...]

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Do You Know What Lurks in your Make-up Drawer?

February 18, 2010

Make-up is an issue that I wrestle with every day. The words, ” natural and organic,” are not synonymous. Many products tout that their products are made from natural or organic products could contain 1,4 dioxane, in which the Environmental Protection Agency has declared a probable human carcinogen.
According to a Los Angeles Times article,
“The compound is [...]

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Eco-Friendly FlexibleLove Furniture: The End of the Stackable Chair

February 8, 2010

Are you forever asking people to bring a casserole plus a chair or two? Or do you have the proverbial stack of metal or plastic chairs in your basement? Guilty on both accounts.
FlexibleLove furniture, a honeycomb, accordion structure-type furniture, is not only eco-friendly, it will save your aching back from lugging those chairs up from the [...]

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Organic Color Systems: Wash those Grays Away with a Safer Hair Color

February 2, 2010

Do you need to put on a mask before coloring your hair?
Note: this post has been updated 2/15/2010 with further information from Herb UK.
I have been turning gray since my early twenties. It must be hereditary since my grandfather was all gray at an early age. When I had just a few gray strands, [...]

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Reuse your Greeting Cards to Spread Joy to Others

January 29, 2010

After all the holiday presents have been exchanged, the tree taken down, and the ornaments put away, how many of you still have up your holiday cards laying around? I tend to keep mine up a little longer because I love the festive colors that adorn my mantel.
Usually, I take off the pictures that my [...]

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Chinet’s Compostable Paper Plates Green, Recycled, and Landfill Free

January 28, 2010

How many people do you know take pictures with their blackberry of paper plates in BJs? Probably just me but I had good reason to be excited. Here in front of my lovely doe green eyes was a package of 165 Chinet Classic White paper plates that I could compost in my magical composter!
Some of [...]

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Fixing an Old Lamp Bound for the Trash

December 16, 2009

I found an relatively new lamp in a trash pile one day. As you can see, it is quite attractive except for its glaring silver duct taped cord. Heck, one man’s trash is another’s treasure. In my case, a lamp for a needed reading area.
Normally, I would have scooped it up and ran to the [...]

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Green Speed Links for November 29, 2009

November 30, 2009

Photo by Fernando de Sousa.
Usually my Green Speed Links for the week are an eclectic group of green news. For some reason, green building news caught my eye this week. For those of you who are not as enamored with green building as I am, I sprinkled the links with other interesting green news. Check [...]