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Reusing Plastic Soda Bottles in Your Garden

“Less than 1 percent of all plastics is recycled. Therefore, almost all plastics are incinerated or end up in a landfill.” Source: Earth911.com


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33 Things You Can Reuse As Garden Planters

By reusing one of these items to garden, you’ll be starting a new life for a plant and giving a second life to another.

Photo Credit: Shawna Coronado of The Casual Gardener

You don’t need to buy fancy containers or other items, you likely have one or more of these items lying around that can be used.

Here’s a list of things that can be reused as garden planters.


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 Reduce-Reuse-Recycle to Stretch Your Grocery Dollar

3 Meals Now & 2 Put Up For Later...From A $3.00 Flat Of Chicken Thighs

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My husband does most of our grocery shopping. We don't own a car so it's very lucky that our son works with him and is a close neighbor. It works well for our son as well, since we contribute to gas and car maintenance. As you may read between the lines, ours is a very close family.


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School’s Out! Summer Tips to Keep Practicing the 3 R’s

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6 Ways To Reuse Orange Rinds



Attribution: via Darwin Bell on Flickr

Last week Sebrina (aka LiteGreen) wrote about amazing uses for lemon beyond eating. That got me thinking about another citrus fruit, the orange, and what its rind can be used for once it's peeled away.

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The Amazing Lemon

5 simple reasons to love this sunny fruit.

2I think it would be hard not to love the lemon.  It smells clean and crisp.  It tastes like summer itself.  And as it turns out, it’s a great helper all around the house.

Lemon To The Laundry Rescue
A squeeze of lemon will eliminate an ink stain on your favorite shirt.  Let it sit on the garment overnight, and in the morning, wash as usual. 

Brighten Your Pots With A Little Lemon


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ReUseConnection - Next Generation Social Networking

Into the mind of Ian Moise and ReUseConnection

"This piece is not meant to suggest that Africans don't waste and Americans do, but rather to illustrate the value in exchanging ideas — exactly what the website intends to do." — Ian Moise


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5 Household Items You Can Reuse To Start Seeds In

There is no need to use extra resources and incur more expenses when starting your seeds. You can use one (or all) of these items that you have laying around your house to get your garden started.


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A Better “Story of Stuff”

Annie Leonard took the system to task for our consumption addiction in her powerful video "The Story of Stuff," and rightfully so in many ways. Most of us use far more “stuff” than we need.



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Unravel and Rekn.it

This month his mom will take your old sweater and turn it into something magical.

You've got an old sweater. Perhaps it's too small. Perhaps the style is way outdated. Or perhaps you're just tired of looking at it in its current state.


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