In honor of Trash to Treasure Thursday, this week I'm super excited to bring you the latest and greatest news from TERRACYCLE! In April, TerraCycle debuted Garbage Moguls on the National Geograpic Channel - a series of television shows that … [Read more...]
TerraCycle’s Garbage Moguls Returns Saturday 8/21/10 to National Geographic
August 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Eco-Advent Calendars
December 1, 2009 By 3 Comments
Tis' the season for our children to WANT, WANT, WANT! I struggle each year around this time to remind my 6 year old that it's not all about presents and Santa. He had a homework project this week to talk about the holiday that we celebrate … [Read more...]
Trashy Thursday
May 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Here are some cute projects that I saw while visiting Epcot's Flower and Garden festival at Disney World a few weeks ago. With a little time and imagination you can create some really cute projects for your garden. I wonder which one will be my … [Read more...]
Trashy Thursday – Making Music
April 10, 2008 By 1 Comment
Here is a neat little musical instrument little man and I made for our new friends in Toronto, the Village Mama and family. We had to go for a nature walk to find just the right sticks for the project. The only requirement was that they had to … [Read more...]
Trashy Thursday! V-Day Edition
February 14, 2008 By 2 Comments
We did it! We made time to make our Valentine's butterflies. We started with an empty toilet paper roll and wrapped it with pink paper (you could use scrap paper, envelopes, whatever you have around). Next we cut out several hearts … [Read more...]
Waste
January 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Have you ever really thought about how much you waste each day? As I sit here in an airport beginning my travels for the day I decided to track my waste for today. It's not even 5am and already I have wasted about half a pound of trash. When I … [Read more...]
What Do I Do With…?
January 24, 2008 By 1 Comment
If you are anything like me you have a garage, closet or attic full of stuff that you don't want anymore. But what do you do with all that stuff? My friend was going through her house this week doing some spring cleaning and asked me what she … [Read more...]
Happy New Years Eve
December 31, 2007 By Leave a Comment
It's almost here, 2008! Looking back at 2007 I have made a good effort to make small changes in my everyday life that will benefit the environment; or at least lessen our impact. So what are going to be my environmental resolutions for … [Read more...]
How was your Christmas?
December 27, 2007 By 1 Comment
Well Christmas has come and gone! I am actually quite excited that today was the first trash pick up since then and we only had our average one trash can full. We only had one bag of wrapping paper trash and the rest of the stuff (packaging) is … [Read more...]
Reducing and Reusing at the Holidays
December 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Wow, I've been quiet for several weeks. I guess it's time to give you some ideas for reducing and reusing waste during the holidays. I was packing up some gifts to be mailed the other day and was trying to reduce the cost at the post office. I … [Read more...]
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