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Celebrating SIGG's Green Century

Celebrating SIGG's Green Century

SIGG Switzerland, the company that makes my favourite reusable beverage bottle, is turning 100 years old — and they’re planning an online celebration with a great green theme, celebrity chat, and a chance to win a trip to Hawaii. To mark this milestone, SIGG Switzerland, along with Laurie David’s StopGlobalWarming.org, will launch www.sigg100.com and explore [...]

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Counter Composting

Counter Composting

The green-living experts tell us that the average family could reduce their garbage by as much as one-third, just by composting kitchen scraps and other organic wastes. Looking at the foot-path worn down from the house to our own compost bins, I believe that waste-reduction estimate! The worst part of composting, for me, is the [...]

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Virginia Fleck Mandala Art

Virginia Fleck Mandala Art

Our evironmentalist blogger with an eye for beauty, Pelf Nyok, has dropped by to introduce her latest find — an American artist who creates huge mandala wall pieces with other people’s throwaway plastic bags. The works are both colourful and green! ~ Jen Plastic Artworks A lot of things are being said about China’s recent announcement [...]

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Moonshine Light

Moonshine Light

It’s official — Elsewares is running moonshine. Not to worry, though, this kind of moonshine is perfectly legal… The Moon Jar looks a lot like a traditional Mason jar used for canning preserves (or stashing hillbilly hooch) but look! It’s really a clever bit of lighting. Wouldn’t this be great for the cottage or camp? [...]

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Holiday Decorations from Recycled Sweaters

Holiday Decorations from Recycled Sweaters

A colourful wreath hand-sewn from sweater remnants gives an eco-friendly twist to a traditional holiday decoration, in one of the more imaginative recycling ideas of the season. It reminds me a bit of those wreaths made with tied strips of plastic bags that I’ve mentioned before, but only in the sense of an unconventional material [...]

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