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As a librarian...that's a great way to give old yucky books a second life and not buy new things to store electronic stuff.

If we might consider cost in an ecological question, the cloth napkins would quickly cover the cost of buying paper napkins. You probably want a supply of paper napkins around for parties--I still ...

I used that Lush shampoo bar for awhile. At first I loved it, but towards the end of the bar's life my hair was getting really yucky. I think a lot of the appeal for me was no packaging and no str...

I went to a special members preview earlier this week, and it is a stunning space. Great for modern art, though we mostly spent time in the early 20th century Europe galleries on the third floor.

One of my favorites is The Moosewood Restaurant Kitchen Garden: Creative Gardening For The Adventurous Cook by David P. Hirsch. It contains advice for all types of spaces (including container garde...

This looks like a neat little device. I am trying to use cardboard egg cartons as seed starters, partly because I have hardly any space and they conveniently fit in my kitchen windowsill.

I tried to DIF it with my 1st gen iPod nano when the screen was broken. I bought a screen and got a set of detailed instructions and tools-- I know my way around a computer, and figured it would ta...

These are sold at Target as well, in the natural cosmetics section. I'm planning to get some of these when my current tools need replacement.

I became a vegetarian around the age of 16, which is about 8 years ago now. My mother had been a vegetarian for some years before that, so I suppose that was the inspiration. At the time it was jus...

Homeopathy doesn't work, as others said, it's just water. On the other hand, conventional cough syrups don't have a lot of evidence backing them up either:

I started doing this when I stopped buying bread at the grocery store and started making my own. Basically whatever bread is left when I make a new loaf (once or twice a week) goes into the freezer...