Here is a way to keep busy when everyone else is having a good time and you are the designated driver: Take all of those champagne corks with their wire cages and recycle them into little models of "the chair that has seated millions"- a classic Thonet cafe chair. Learn how at Instructables.
And don't forget, champagne corks can travel up to 50 miles per hour-remove them safely:...
:: Not sure what to do with that really embarrassing reindeer sweater from Aunt Susan? Make mittens!
:: Ring in the New Year with the best of Kelly's easy, economical and eco-friendly dinner recipes from 2008.
:: Consult the consumer guides for e-cycling tips before you give your old gadgets the boot....
Here is a little green Christmas tale for you to enjoy tonight. Even Planet Green gets a cameo.
Read on for more Christmas Eve entertainment....
:: At a loss for last-minute gifts? Find inspiration in seven sustainably simple ideas.
:: Meet the change maker using t-shirts to combat climate change.
:: Luxuriate in an easy, crowd-pleasing Lasagne dinner....
We cover the thriving green gingerbread architecture scene, where architects still can find work, the ingredients and the mortgages aren't toxic and meltdowns are expected if you carelessly leave your work outside. We also show the occasional un-treehugger entries:
Our friends at Inhabitat posted this ingenious list of eco-friendly ways to wrap presents and we had to pass it on. Called Future Present, they are the result of a challenge to fellow designers to find alternatives to the waste that is our usual Christmas wrapping.
Much of North America is socked in solid and getting out to shop is even less attractive than it was when all you had to worry about was paying for for the gifts. TreeHugger recently showed a range of downloadable presents in our design gift guide, but here are a few last-minute Christmas-themed ideas, starting with the most complicated: a downloadable nutcracker man from Paper Replika. ...
Photo via tifotter
Tired of trying to figure out ways to recycle the holiday cards you receive? Try eating them. A design company has come up with a formula for doing just that. ...
The following essay started as an email to my extended family and friends.
When I think of Christmas, I think of the stuff often found under trees: toys and books and computers, DVD players and colorful paper.
I don't mean the Christmas tree. During the holidays in my neighborhood in New York, I see this stuff left under the spindly, anemic black trees that line sidewalks, waiting to be carted away to the landfill, or wherever else it goes (more on that later). It's estimated that Americans generate about 5 million more tons of waste than usual between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day....
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As both a supplier and inducer of the 'Christmas Cheer' in the coming weeks, it will behoove you to get comfortable with a little chemistry. Now, a Savvy Tyro might stop me right there, knowingly reciting the tried-and-true formula of "booze the adults, sugar the children". Yes, yes; granted, that works pretty well. But there's more to the story, and some green implications as well. And what's more is that it was discovered by a child.
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:: Pink is the new green. In our Buy Green: Pink Champagne guide, that is!
:: 'Tis the season of wasteful gift wrap--and a whole lot of it! Make a switch to more sustainable alternatives.
:: Kiss goodbye to holiday stress with a comforting home cooked dinner like Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Sage Brown Butter. Mmm......
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