Tips
Ten Tips to Green Your Apartment or Condo
If you live an apartment or condo like I do, you are often limited on ways you can green your home. So we decided to put together a list of the top ten tips to green your apartment or condo. If you live in a house these tips will be applicable to you as well. [...]
Ten Tips to a Greener Halloween
Green is the new orange and black for Halloween this year. We thought it would be a good idea to give some tips on how to make this day of celebration, candy, goblins, and witches a more sustainable one than years past with these ten tips for a Green Halloween!
Reusable bags! Rather than buying a [...]
Plastics + Fire - Poisons = Fun
Ever been curious about what’s in your plastic? The fellas at NYCResistor (a DIY group, not an underground insurgency) have a handy video to show us if you’ve got some PVC on your hands. Their version uses a small blowtorch and some bare copper wire. This is infinitely safer than some other methods I’ve heard [...]
Daily Tip: Join the Freecycle Network
A work buddy of mine turned me on to the the Freecycle Network last week. Freecycle has been extensively blogged about (see here, here, and here for starters), but it’s certainly worth plugging again. Basically, Freecycle is a network of Yahoo Groups, based around cities and communities, where members post items to give away and [...]
We Add Up Is Totally Killer
I stumbled across the We Add Up campaign yesterday after reading this post on Treehugger. I had to give them some love. The idea is pretty simple: they sell organic cotton t-shirts emblazened with a green tip that anyone can do right now. These include turning your lights off, inflating your tires properly, car pooling, [...]
