We try to eat well, but with the increasing number of “healthy,” “organic,” or “all natural” food labels, it can get a bit confusing on what’s important or even legitimate. Luckily Tre...
How many times have you clicked on a Craigslist ad to see an item and seen this instead? "Camera broken, promise good quality?" Maybe you should send that person these Craigslist Rules to get it sol...
Whether you live in Los Angeles, dream of living in Los Angeles or just plan to visit any time soon, Your Daily Thread is one of the resources you're going to want to know about. And now, they've l...
Once a month (or so) we go through our closets and drawers and pull out the stuff we've stopped wearing. We fill a bag and take it to the local thrift store. Often, the clothes in those bags have bare...
A chair found on the street and then reupholstered! It takes a certain penchant for thrifting —not to mention an eye for design— to pull off curbside "shopping." And it also takes a littl...
We love when we find a new blog to add to the list of our daily reads. Keeping Up with the Johnsons is a blog on the ReadyMade site, written by Garth Johnson and Claire Joyce, a pair of artists who ju...
If you're like us, you've felt overwhelmed at times by all of the recalls, chemicals, and other toxins lurking in the environment and even in your baby's toys or sippy cup. Well, Jennifer Taggart's b...
Normally, kids are the provenance of Ohdeedoh, our kid sister site. But Urth Child is not just about kids. It's also about social responsibility and environmental preservation... ...
While many magazines have shuttered this past year, there seem to be some new really good ones emerging. We just got our hands on lovely new magazine, GreenCraft, an inspirational resource for creat...
Calling all you woodworkers, cabinet makers, designers, artists, hobbyists, and homeowners: the I.D. Wood iPhone app is a handy new app that gives you full screen samples and detailed information fo...
A study recently released by the San Francisco-based Cleantech group sought to determine the environmental impact of replacing your books with the Amazon Kindle. See their findings after the jump .....
We were first introduced to Duckpond, an Australian website, about a year and half ago via one of our daily "go to" stops, Desire to Inspire, and we've been following John and Cecilia's progress in b...
Apple or orange? Coffee or tea? Wine or beer? Although we like to think so, it's not the sweeping changes you make that have the biggest impact. Often, it's the small choices that you make every d...
Since we wrote this post last week on building a cob house for $3000, we've had cob on our mind. Here's another resource that is all about cob education ......
What have you done today to make the world a better place? Such a heavy question to ask a young child -- yet it's something so many of us have to begin asking ourselves, and our entire family, more o...
New York is like one big take-a-penny, leave-a-penny. If you’re moving or it’s simply not worth selling on Criagslist, just leave it on the curb and poof! You’re slightly used trashcan is some...
A little earlier today, Amber wrote about the resurgence of modern homesteading. If you're interested in jumping on the bandwagon, but don't know where to start, we just found a nice collection of res...
If you're like us you hate throwing anything in the regular garbage. It seems like such a, pardon the pun, waste. But there's some stuff you just don't know what to do with. Check out our list pl...
One of our favorite perks of living in the city, is being able to form relationships with our local businesses — we count on them to deliver the coolest flowers, great gifts, and local gardeni...
The Reading in Public project is a celebration of the "written word by way of community performance in public spaces." Their current project is to provide a mobile Reading Chair on which members of ...
Just because it's mid-August doesn't mean we've gotta stop thinking about the garden. Actually, now's the time to start fall and winter crops (root vegetables, greens, etc.)....
Aiming to make Columbus, Ohio’s art district, Short North, even cooler, local shops have formed a bike sharing organization called EveryoneBIKES. Riders can take a bike to tour the neighborhood, ...
In some households, the summers are winding down and it's getting time to send kids back to school. So why throw all your green home solutions out the window when it comes to packing their backpacks f...
We still regret getting rid of our university-era milk crate bookshelves in a delusional fit of thinking we had outgrown them. This upcycled take on milk crate cabinetry is calling our name. Available...
Joining the plethora of social networking sites, is a new eco-networking site called HowYouEco. HowYouEco aims to be green directory, social network, media outlet and marketplace where people, compa...
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