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I make envelopes from expired calendars.

When I first received my bread machine in 2003, I baked a loaf of bread every week. Now, I don't have the same counter space so I store it below the sink. Out of sight, out of mind. Your post ha...

You can now add meat scraps to the green bins in the City of Berkeley. This has changed the entire ecosystem of the green bin project in my complex. We had a lot of maggots and aweful smells this...

This re-use is as clever as the wine cork-picture frame bulletin board.

I have a craft idea for wine corks but will have leftover corks. The cork bulletin board is a perfect use for my leftovers.

I like the tp (or paper towel) roll re-use idea.

This would work for toothpaste tubes, too, no?

Natracare - plastic free, chlorine free, perfume free, but not 100% biodegradable ("over 90%").

I am also interested in how-to information.

http://www.atelier-v.ch/umdenken/sites/25.html - perfect for a Halloween costume.

Another use for my expanding collection of glass jars, thank you.

Rosenzweig 2008 and Rosenzweig et al. 2006 found that light colored surfaces are effective in reducing surface temperatures, especially in settings with a lot of existing dark colored surfaces, but...

An excellent post. I will definitely hang on my fridge door.

Wonderful. I have a boxy, horizontal filer that currently blocks a lot of window real estate and have been dreaming about a vertical filer.

I am studying the "million tree planting initiative" phenomenon. Los Angeles and Sacramento, California and Denver, Colorado have made similar planting commitments to NYC.

Check out the Walking Berkeley blog (http://walkingberkeley.wordpress.com/) by Jen English.

I am so excited by the feedback to my post, thank you. Whytephoenix: I have forgotten the type of lavender I planted but I purchased it from a neighborhood nursery specializing in dr...