New Uses for an Old T-Shirt
T-shirts are not indestructible. Cotton wears thin and just as they become your favorite and most comfortable shirt, they develop a hole, or three. As popular as t-shirts are and as easy as they are to wear, ch...
Reusable Water Bottles: A Guide
You’re probably already aware of the problem that disposable plastic bottles pose for the environment. They don’t degrade quickly and are in our throwaway society they are major contributors to overflowing land...
New Uses for Old Things
Recycling can be a whole lot more fun than just sorting your different types of trash by material every week. Old stuff can be transformed into all sorts of new stuff with a bit of imagination. We live in a soc...
Guide to Reusable Shopping Bags
The sea is full of them. Our drainage systems get clogged by them. They kill wildlife, who die terrible and unnecessary deaths. That’s plastic bags for you: a hundred billion a year in the US. Manufacture...
Green Gift Wrapping 101
Every year millions of pounds of gift wrap serve their purpose for a few hours, before being ripped up and tossed in the trash. Maybe you think so what? It’s paper. (more…)...
How to Use Paper Efficiently
By TreeLiving We’ve been through the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages and now we might just be in the paper age. Instead of the paperless office that people dreamed of when computers came in, the technology ha...
Green Your Packaging Routine
Packaging tends to be very wasteful when you think of the oversized cardboard boxes, plastic tape, packing peanuts and bubble wrapping…not to mention the wrapping paper, bows and ribbons if you are sending a gi...
Why Plastic Shopping Bags are Bad
There are some environmental issues that are controversial, and others that are pretty much clear-cut. The ecological impact of plastic bags is one of the latter. (more…)...
Detoxify Your Kitchen!
By ESP The kitchen is supposed to be the one place where everything is very clean so you can handle food safely. Yet many people are unaware that most items we use for cooking and food storage are full of...
Easy Ways to Reduce Water Consumption Around the House
By TreeLiving Whether you care about the planet or just want to reduce your water bill, here are some tips on how to conserve more water around the house. It’s easy to do and great for both Mother Earth a...