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1. Pull Tab Redemption Myths and Aluminum Recycling Truths When I started working with recycled aluminum pull tabs in my crochet, I realized I couldn't possibly drink enough (soda or beer) to supply my tab needs. I did not know a lot of people that could contribute either. So I started looking in the interne...
2. Pull Tab Art & Upcycling Upcycling is a component of sustainability in which the use of waste materials to provide new products. It is generally a reinvestment in the environment. This process allows for the reduction of waste and use of virgin materials. "Upcycling is the...
3. Make Stuff with Jeans With the tough economic times that we are dealing with today, we need to be on the lookout to find ways to save a buck. This lens will help you do that as well as provide some ideas to make some pretty cool stuff out of your (or even somebody else's)...
4. Plastic Bags - Let's do something about them or with them! Ah...the plastic bag. While they are found everywhere these days, there was a time when they were more difficult to find. Today they're found in the streets, tree branches and streams - in every corner of this planet.
5. Green Art in Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio is one of the best places to find incredible recycled art. The green movement is very active in Cleveland in several areas, and the art community in Cleveland has welcomed recycled art, and green art wholeheartedly.  Take a jour...
6. Ways to Reuse Old Medicine Bottles Prescription pill bottles can multiply quickly when you receive new ones at the pharmacy each month. Read on for a few ideas of how to reduce waste and find new uses for your empty medicine bottles!
7. Recycle Your Carpet As the most recent statistics say we piled 5 billion pounds of carpet in the landfills in 2005. That's ridiculous when we are complaining about putting plastic bottles in the landfills because they don't decompose. It's virtually the same thing, carp...
8. Recycle 411 Guide This lens will help you recycle, upcycle, crecycle, freecycle and reuse just about everything. Just remember when it comes to living a sustainable life reducing is more important. Feel free to share your recycling advice and if you think this lens wo...
9. Resurrected Jeans make these upcycled jeans stand out from the crowd. starting with castoff clothing, Resurrected Jeans are patched where needed and then artfully decorated with hand embroidery.
10. Recycling for textiles It seems that in this culture we're given so many "things"- our houses are full of "stuff". Before we are born we're given gifts and this carries on throughout our lives. We throw things away, we break things, we send them to charity shops. Of cour...
11. Make Stuff I just love to make stuff. As a kid, I would draw up elaborate plans for my new inventions and actually try to build some of them. I would spend hours putting together things with odd materials I could find around the house into simple pinball machi...
12. What a product must have to be consider eco-friendly?? Buy at AllPosters.com Eco-friendly products and shops are all over the web right?? Is eco-friendly becoming just a simple way to market some products?? What is that a product need to be eco-friendly?? I'm making this lens to give my personal opi...
13. My Etsy Shop - PanicAttack The great thing about Etsy is it's a place where people who love to create can sell their wares.  Like a big online craft show.  It's a lot of fun to browse around and see what is in all the shops. My shop contains my crocheted accessories,...
14. Paper or Plastic No Thank You - Recycle, Repurpose & Upcycle Paper or Plastic? How about neither. It takes as much petroleum to make 14 plastic bags as it does to drive a car one mile.
15. Upcycling The term upcycling was coined by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, authors of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Upcycling is a component of sustainability in which waste materials are used to provide new products. It is gener...
16. Sustainability Made Easy There are so many things to consider and think about and feel guilty about when trying to live a sustainable life for the environment, your family or yourself. You want to do your part, but it all seems so complicated and so time consuming. This lens...
17. Recycle And Reuse Headquarters Recycle And Reuse I could go on and on about the importance of recycling, how it eliminates waste and cuts down on landfill use which then leaches into groundwater and is ingested by the fish we eat....but instead I will assume that you are here beca...
18. 26 Green Lifestyle Hot Topics http://greenoptions.com has compiled the latest environmental news on the web and categorized them by tags. This lens provides brief descriptions of each tagged hot topic! Taking the Leap From A to W. Activism Agriculture Alternative Fuels cars Cli...
19. My Mixed Media Handmade Collections I share my ByLightOfMoon collective etsy Handmade shoppe with my Mother Rosemary. This is my shoppe for my altered art mixed media and I share this also with my mother " Rosemary" who is talented in every handmade project she ever to...