From the big box retailer to your local convenience store, plastic bags are a fact of life for most consumers. Though plastic bags are convenient for customers and cheap for retailers, unfortunately these bags can have a serious environmental impact. While it’s best to avoid using these bags altogether, in some instances it seems nearly [...]

The Internet is buzzing with various DIY gadgets and trash craft ideas: DIY Christmas lights out of bottles, chick handbags out of vinyl records and nice-looking accessories out of pop tabs… All those are fun and obviously useful because they develop a great habit of turning useless stuff into something cool (maybe even if that’s [...]

Here we are at the start of the Holiday season, around our house, Thanksgiving plans are in full-swing! What can we do to get our holiday season off on a green foot? A lot! How about shopping for your Thanksgiving meal with two words in mind, organic and local. If you buy local, you enjoy [...]

I was contacted yesterday with a request to write an article about a relatively new company and I approached the request with equal amounts of skepticism and intrigue! The request was to write about a company that takes used cardboard boxes and sells them back to businesses and the general public at low prices. What [...]

Have you ever wondered where all of our old computers and out dated electronics go? The shocking answer is usually that they go to a landfill but one company is making treasures out of e-trash and their waste electronic recycling is a wonderful thing! http://www.flickr.com/photos/zilpho/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 I have noticed a trend of [...]

With St. Patricks day fast approaching our minds turned to our top priority for March… “Re-using”! We already have a very eco-friendly Easter ritual which involves a family craft-a-thon where we re-use egg shells, news paper, cardboard etc. to create special Easter decorations but can we do the same thing for St. Patricks day? As [...]

I learned today that this week is a very special week for “The Grinch”, it marks his creator’s birthday, Dr Seuss would be celebrating his 105th birthday this week and we thought it only fitting that we take a look at The Grinch and how we can learn from his surprisingly Eco friendly way of [...]