By Julie Finn •
March 18, 2009
My days of Strawberry Shortcake Shrinky-Dinks are long past (although my childhood Strawberry Shortcake doll is still a prized possession–our household rule is that we are allowed no commercial culture toys in the house, unless they’re “vintage”. Ahem), but wow, were they crazy fun or what?
At last year’s Strange Folk festival, some Girl Scouts taught me and my kiddos the joys of #6 plastic. The basic concept: It shrinks! Like Shriny-Dinks! Equally awesomely! And because you get to draw your own pictures, not fill in some pre-printed coloring sheet, AND you get to re-use before you recycle, it’s a great activity to do with our budding little environmentalists.
There are lots of tutorials on the web for shrinking #6 plastic, all a little different, but here’s how my family does ours:
By Joe Mohr •
October 16, 2008
For the Environment, we are not red or blue, Republican or Democrat–we are the Purple (Blue+Red) Demoblicans (Democrat+Republican)!
Purple Demoblicans unite!
By Lucille Chi •
September 9, 2008
While we’re on the topic of greening the office at re-sourceful they share a “tidy thought: clean up the world, starting with our desks”
If you are planning a company party, looking for thank you gifts for your whole department, or simply stocking the supply cabinets, re-sourceful by re-everything has it.
re-sourceful merges together charities, businesses, designers, artisans and artists for innovative and fresh promotional gift ideas for business. From left to right above are product examples of their resourceful mantra is re-use, re-cycle, re-think:
By Kelly Rand •
August 11, 2008
This past weekend, I went to Virgin Fest. A two day, two stage, music festival deal. It was a blast to see so many bands rock out to a very enthusiastic crowd.
The neat thing about Virgin Fest, is that they are committed to being as green as possible. They had a whole exhibit based on their efforts, called the Green Spot. At the exhibit you learned that all of the paper products, t-shirts and other “merch” were sourced from organic cotton, recycled content and corn based plastics. Generators used biofuels and composting bins were placed next to recycle bins.
It was wonderful to know that even though music festivals are large events, small changes can make a big difference. But what really got me going was an awesome bandanna skirt that I spotted in the crowd.
Photo Credit: recyclethis.co.ukThe search for opportunities for recycling stretches beyond individual desires to be able to recycle more, as Jennifer discussed earlier this week in our Q & A feature.
While Jennifer discussed some ways of increasing the amount of recycling that individual households participate in, there are websites that are engaging with the ideas of finding new uses for materials that will otherwise end up as waste
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