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Add This To Your Blog Roll: ReDesign Diva

From old dresser drawers to new stylin' night tables. Maxwell, this has your name all over it! We don't drink coffee, but boy do we miss that morning jolt. We got it this morning. Not because we a...

Preserve: Toothbrushes Made from Yogurt Cups

Yogurt is one of our favorite foods. We buy it in the quart-sized containers and re-use those at home, since in our city we can't recycle #5 plastics. But Preserve—the company we know so well from t...

13 Great Uses and Reuses for Paper Bags

If we happen to lapse on taking our reusable totes to the store, which isn't very often anymore thanks to this post, we ask the cashier to pack our groceries in paper bags. Even though there's still a...

Gazelle: Recycle Your Electronics For Cash

When it comes to old electronics, the usual options are: donate it (great idea but we paid a lot of money for this); recycle it (it's only a few years old, and we'd like to get some money for it); ...

Robert Fontenot's Recycle LACMA: New Life for Old Clothes

Like any other item that has outlasted its usefulness, clothing is discarded. Sometimes it is donated and then sent overseas, sometimes it ends up in landfill. What about recycling? Last January,...

Reusable Tote Messages: Do You Have a Favorite?

It seems as though more folks are remembering to bring their reusable totes to the grocery store--and we're seeing them quite often around town as people use them to tote their lunches, grab library b...

Creative Reuse: Before You Toss It, Consider Painting It

Elizabeth Seward's Stenciled Chairs There comes a day in every homeowner's or apartment dweller's life where you need a change. It's not that your home isn't beautiful or functional or well-organize...

Trend Watch: Plastic Bottle Lighting

Wow, all of a sudden we’ve seen a lot of upcycled plastic bottle light fixtures. First it was our post about Michelle Brand’s bottle bottom lights, and then we started noticing this creative reuse...

Survey: Vote for Your Favorite R!

This is a fun cartoon that comes from Japan for Sustainability. According to their thinking, the three Rs can actually be ranked in order of importance. And Reduce takes the gold. Do you agree? Which ...

Creative Reuse 2008: Wine Corks and Salvaged Wood as Cork Board

What do you reuse? And how do you do it? Let us know, because we're looking for readers' photos and creative reuse projects. The first 15 ideas we post will get a free AT T-shirt (get all the details ...

7 Household Uses for Coffee Grounds

Most of us can agree that coffee is a crucial step in our morning wakeup routine. The only things to debate are the options of how we brew the coffee and what type container to drink it from. But what...

Ewaste Wildlife

When old computers shut down for the last time, where do they go to die? If you can’t take your electronics to a recycling center send them to Brenda Guyton, who breathes new life into them. Brenda ...

Working Bikes Cooperative

Storefront 1125 S Western Ave Chicago, Illinois (312) 421-5048 Warehouse927 S Western Ave, 2nd floor workingbikes.org It’s nearing the end of summer, which is also prime biking season. We’ve tal...

Simple Green: Recycle at Ikea

Hanging out in the returns area at Ikea we were reminded a) we hate returning things, it always takes forever and b) oh yeah you can recycle toner cartridges, light bulbs and batteries at Ikea. pos...