Or turning something into something else. I recently stumbled upon this interesting tutorial that shows how to turn a t-shirt into a bag. I decided to try with an old t-shirt that I was actually thinking of throwing away. Instead, I know have a very sturdy bag that I use to carry my lunch box [...]
“It’s happened again: An oil spill, this time near Port Arthur, Texas. According to the U.S. Coastguard, 462,000 gallons of oil spilled into the water when a tanker collided with a towing barge on Saturday. According to an AP article on msnbc.com, crews scrambled to protect two “sensitive wildlife areas” — a lake that is [...]
“Raw materials for cool one-of-a-kind shopping bags are laying around your house right now. Make fun, unique, and thrifty reusable shopping bags that are either quick fixes or that will bring out the craftster in you.” via 13 Ways to Make Cool Reusable Shopping Bags for Free.
“Of all the items that internet searches, free wi-fi, and Blackberries have made nearly obsolete, the phone book ranks high on the list—and yet, stacks of the paper directories still end up in the lobbies of apartment buildings, on front porches, and in vacation homes every year…” via Give Your Old Phone Book a Place [...]
How to Recycle Anything | Real Simple. This link gives a quite long list of items we can recycle. Some solutions are a bit useless or ‘wacky’, but we can be inspired and creative. Ever found items in the house we don’t need anymore, but feel kinda reluctant to simply throw away, maybe because we [...]
101 New Uses for Everyday Things | Real Simple. You might already know some of these uses. For instance, I knew about the vinegar ones. But these tips are a good reminder nonetheless, as we tend to forget how simple and eco-friendly life used to be a few decades ago, before we started buying chemicals [...]
