Hi Richard!My wife found a property in a neighborhood she is particularly fond of but the house is trashed. Additionally, the additions that have been done over the years look like they were done with no thought to aesthetics or function.Our question is is it unreasonable to tear down the house and reuse the existing foundation? Does the cost of saving on the foundation outweigh the cost of having
We heard global warming and dump site is getting worst day by day but do you know your waste is a major contributor to the environment and global warming.Here are some brilliant ideas on how to reuse and recycle.So the next time you decide to throw away you old TV,apparatus and etc,think twice. Any suggestion to reuse and recycle are welcome!. Have a nice day and have fun :DThis is how to reuse yo
Times are tough, people.The economy is hittin' the skids faster than a Big Wheel-drivin' 3-year-old on a downhill driveway. So it's time to get creative and look at things in a new way.Today's topic: Lint!The next time your husband yells that you're going to start a dryer fire you remove the lint, save it! There are many uses for lint around the house:Bookmark.Tea Cozy.Golf Club Cover.BG blanket
In recent months we've seen the popularity of one particular promotional product grow by leaps and bounds: the non-woven polypropylene bag. What, you may ask, is a non-woven polypropylene bag? It's the type of reusable, recyclable bag that's cropped up for sale in almost every major retail outlet in the United States this year. You've undoubtedly seen them at the grocery store checkout counter; ma
The Fall has arrived in many parts of the country. This means apple cider, pumpkin pie, acorn squash, cooler weather and, of course, thousands of falling leaves.
Leaves may be beautiful when they're turning bright orange, yellow and red, but the beauty wears off when they're covering your lawn. Is there a way to reuse these leaves rather than bundle them up and send them to the dump? Yes.
I’ll lay a bet you have one or two craft books on your shelves at home.
Everybody does, it’s almost the law to have a couple, but how often do you pick them up and have a good look through?
Consider this a rubbishy prompt.
The nights are drawing in already, the outlook for autumn weather is lousy [...]
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You owned a very large and stylish LCD television in your home and you’re very proud of it. However, what will you do, if you found that the LCD Television have a smashed screen? Well, I think you will mostly calling the company or even sent it to the local electronic appliances shop to get [...]
In reality, old or spoilt laptops are lying around the house most of the time doing nothing other than collecting dust. Here are ten interesting ideas that will inspire you to make full use of these otherwise useless tech junk.
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2. Playing table tennis
3. As a stool while waiting for public transport
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Here at Green Prophet we’re big fans of environmentally friendly design. While it is greener, of course, to be a minimalist and avoid purchasing new products altogether - that sort of extreme attitude works for only a limited number of eco folks. For the rest of us, we can alleviate our...
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In California where living green is practically shoved down your throat, I've finally found reusable grocery bags that will allow ME to shop in style. These bags are super sturdy, have long handles so you can throw them over your shoulder and also double as tote. What's even better is that I can do my part to save Mother Earth without sacrificing my individuality.
If you are into recycling and doing your part to maintain a healthy environment, then you would think of ways on how to reuse stuff including water.
One of the ways would be recycling water from your septic tank system whereby you can use to water your plants especially if you have a huge garden [...]
I found an interesting article about how to reuse coffee grounds at How to do things. I did mention about this before at my previous post, so I guess I’ll just remind you all again with other similar article. There are 10 alternative uses for coffee grounds in this article. They are: Keep the kitchen drains smelling freshDyeCleanerCat/pest repellantEnhance carrot and radish growthDeodorizer Gi
PHP and MySQL: Create - Modify - ReuseAuthor:Timothy BoronczykFormat:PDF 5.3MBPublisher: Wrox Number Of Pages: 341 Publication Date: 2008-05-05 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470192429 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470192429 Step-by-step instructions walk readers through real-world applications Packed with ready-to-use projects for PHP and MySQL, this book guides readers through several real-world projects that
Computers, IPods, CDs, phones - these gadgets make our lives easier (and more annoying if you have to spend hours on the phone with tech support). In some ways, these gadgets also help us to live more green, through reducing our need for paper, maximizing efficiency in manufacturing and HR, etc. In other ways, our [...]
Reuse is a concept that is even older than recycling, yet very few individuals do it. So many of us get into the habit of just throwing stuff away without any thought of how that stuff could have been reused to serve another function. A few examples might be using the bottom of an empty milk jug to make a handy paint holder while painting your home; Or using an old electronic box as a planter to g
Every once in a while I interview a new computer science graduate for a developer position. I prefer to ask the kind of questions that will let me see how they think about programming, if they think for themselves and if they are passionate about it.
Usually when I get to object oriented programming and I [...]
Summertime is finally here and a lot of people will be cleaning house. But, it's important to always try to reuse and recycle.Over 140,000 tons of computer equipment, phones, televisions and other e-waste (electronic waste) end up in Canadian landfills each year.This is a serious problem because this E-waste often contains toxic materials like lead, mercury, cadmium, and more.So, today I’m going
Hi again!Thinking about Alison's post earlier (here), being frugal and green is definitely not easy. That being said, its not too hard, if you are willing to get creative!The #1 rule of being green is Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Come to think about it, this is the number one rule of frugality too!Reduce - From a green perspective, this means reduce your consumption... Use only what you need, and no
Printer ink cartridge is one of the most expensive things that you'll run into when you set up your home office. You start out taking dozens of pictures with your new digital camera, download them onto your computer, print a few and then suddenly: the printer ink cartridge runs out of ink.If you follow this how-to guide and refill your printer ink cartridge instead of buying a new one, you can sa
“Cheaper Than Cheap” is a recurring tip series about frugality. The idea is to provide potentially helpful frugality tips that border on fanatical or fictitious to the point of becoming humorous. Love them or hate them, let’s hear what you think. Tip #5 was on Save Gas By Being Creative.
It really is as simple as [...]
I was amazed at the numbers when I came across this article recently. I enjoy drinking coffee as much as...well, I don't know who...but I like drinking coffee! But rest assured, I will be investing in a premium travel mug to do my small part.Imagine...North Americans us 60% of the world's paper cups (130 billion a year!). And where do they end up after your cup of joe is gone?...the garbage, eh? T
The practice of de-construction and un-building may be the next explosion across the US in the near future. The Building Materials Association estimates that in the U.S., 315,000 to 360,000 tons per year of reused building materials are sold by reuse centers — not even 0.2% of the total waste from building activities each year. [...]
Creative Ways to Reuse "Disposable" Items [Clever Uses] We asked earlier this week what disposable items you had found clever re-uses for, and the answers are in. Not surprisingly, some of you have some pretty crafty uses for household goods that usually end up at the curb. From CD-R spindles to corks, twist-ties to tissue boxes, lots of supposedly one-use items can save you money, free up space, and be seriously handy when the need arises. After the jump, a roundup of our readers' waste-reducing reuses. Yogurt photo by Dan4th, all others by How can I recycle this. CDs/DVDs and their cases Along with organizing cables and toting bagels, both borked and discarded CD- and DVD-Rs and the spindles they came in can find second lives: "The (spindle) covers can be turned upside-do
To save a table in Microsoft Office Word for reuse in the future: 1. Select the table that you want to save. 2. On the Insert tab of the Ribbon, click Table, point to Quick Tables, and then click Save Selection to Quick Tables Gallery. 3. In the Create New Building Block dialog box, give the table a name, classify it with some basic parameters, and then click OK. To reuse a saved table:1. Position your cursor where you want to insert a saved table.2. On the Ribbon, click Insert, click Table, and then point to Quick Tables.3. From the list, click the table you saved previously. This table will now be inserted into the document.
Paul Stankey (of Hive Modular prefab fame) and his brother Scott (and their wives) have completed the container cabin they’ve been building on their family property in northern Minnesota for the past nine years. I blogged this a while ago, and I’m really impressed with how it turned out! And it only cost 15,000 bucks!
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The concept of "recycling" usually refers to the breaking down of used items into raw materials and then using those materials to make new items. In contrast, the concept of "reuse" includes both using an item again for its original function, as well as for "new-life reuse" where it is used for a brand new function. "ReUsing is similar to Recycling, only we aren't getting rid of things, we are
So are you wondering why you would want to save your searches?Think about it... How would you like the ability to dynamically find the items you need with a saved search? So the boss called and said - I need all the purchase orders less than a months old and tagged Smith?How about Power Point Presentations created by your partner in the past two weeks?All of those with the letter z in the title?Just the ones with the word NEW in the file name? We see your creating crazy searches and we know you hate to have to recreate em' each time. Do you want to make it a little easier on your self?? Save them searches!You can do it easily! Just follow these steps:Browse as normal to Start Search. Type any characters in the search box (a star works great because, as a wildcard, it won't restrict the sea
With a release of the JBuilder 2008 IDE for Java development on Tuesday, CodeGear is adding a capability called Application Factories, which enables code reuse and makes it easier to update applications. Application Factories features a methodology and tools to navigate framework choices, open source, internal code, and deregulated technology standards to determine use and reuse, CodeGear said.
My son’s school gives out what they call Student Handbook to each student in Grade School and High School every year. This handbook, aside from serving as a diary of activities of the students and as communication between the teachers and parents, also has pages with lots of information. There are pages called [...]
There is much more to Hong Kong Willie than recycling. Humans must always think REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE. These are the three R's we all must abide by. See what you can do to reduce your footprint on Earth. Then find ways to reuse items destined for the landfill. Finally recycle everything you possibly can. By accomplishing these three R's, Humans can leave much less of a footprint on Earth. Following is a short video for our viewers in order to remember Reduce, Reuse, and Recycling:
In an attempt to cut costs and reduce medical waste, many hospitals are recycling single-use medical devices ranging from scissors and scrubs to the blades surgeons use to saw through bones.
The practice is legal as long as certain FDA guidelines are followed. But the practice has raised concerns about safety. Medical device makers say their single-use products pose a higher risk of failure and harm when recycled.
Products labeled for single use are usually not designed to hold up to harsh sterilization chemicals and processes. Even when the devices are sterilized, blood, tissue or other bodily fluids remaining on porous surfaces could allow transmission of viral and bacterial infections, according to device makers.
San Francisco may recycle more of its waste than any City in the US - resulting in 65% overall diversion of waste from the landfill. But during the holiday season, even San Franciscans are prone to create their (more than) fair share of excess waste.
I don’t remember where I read this, so don’t quote me on this… but I believe that in the U.S., we create up to 4 tons of waste just from the wrapping and packaging of holiday presents every year. That figure doesn’t even take into account the gazillions of toys that break the day after Christmas or the kazillions of somewhat useless gifts that are given and sit on a shelf until they eventually end up in the trash can.
But, there are lots of ways that you can help be a part of the solution and not the problem. Here’s just a few ideas:
Send e-cards this year - Sending electronic greetings can greatly reduce the amount of paper that gets wasted during the holidays. While they may seem less person
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We’ve improved the website’s look and feel to make your navigation experience friendlier and more intuitive. Your video mail now comes in its own fancy little “Inbox” while private person-to-person calls are still found under “My TokBox” [though we’re still debating this title and welcoming suggestions]. Lastly, you should [...]
Le petit fils de Melville, gourou de l’ambient-pop-électro qui a commencé sa carrière au début des années 90, se propose aujourd’hui de livrer gratuitement aux cinéastes indépendants ou encore sur les bancs de l’école de cinématographie des musiques toutes faites et libres d’exploitation pour tous leurs longs ou courts métrages, sans contrepartie, si ce n’est une demande par le biais de son site.
Moby s’explique par le fait que ses amis branchés des quartiers végétariens de Manhattan (où Moby possède une dînette) avaient tout le mal du monde à se faire rappeler par les maisons de disques ou pouvoir se payer des droits exorbitants pour illustrer leur projet. Moby, qui de son propre aveu possède des centaines de chansons dans son sac à malice, qu’il ne compte pas vendre intégralement dans les bacs se retrouve dans des eaux déjà connues puisque c’est en autorisant les publicitaires utiliser ses musiques à l’aube de l’an 2000 (contre monnaie ce
You bit the bullet and had it done. Every aspect of your kitchen, from the floors to the ceiling, was completely refinished. You have beautiful countertops, a gorgeous ceramic tile floor, and your new blinds are absolutely wonderful. Everything is finished in the perfect shade of dark grey, with colorful accents and highlights.
Everything, that is, except for your old appliances: the cream beige fridge, matching microwave and stove, and the pale yellow dishwasher. True, these old appliances have served you well and may still function, but ask yourself: am I really happy with these old machines?
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Since you’re remodeling why not order a new stove and fridge? There’s certainly no reason not to, and unless you really can’t afford the money you’re actually making an investment. If you ever plan to sell your home matching appliances will dramatically increase the overall appeal of your kitchen, and hence the appeal of your home.
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You bit the bullet and had it done. Every aspect of your kitchen, from the floors to the ceiling, was completely refinished. You have beautiful countertops, a gorgeous ceramic tile floor, and your new blinds are absolutely wonderful. Everything is finished in the perfect shade of dark grey, with colorful accents and [...]
Few people have considered of the logic of with your home to pay for your home. It requires person-influence and a change in behavior, but doesn’t everything in life that’s very worthwhile? So put your finance on a diet and resign paying radical profit duty to your lean by paying off your finance early, then with your “past house payment” for other investments.
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As mentioned in my previous post, there are other great ways to reuse and rejuvenate, this time, decorative items, in the kitchen! I've seen many well worn tables and chairs in my time, dining furnishings that have done their job, taken a beating, and often, are best retired, to be donated or handed down to others for renewed appreciation. Therefore, again, the answer is not always to buy new! Instead, buy a new table and antique chairs, or vice versa. Look at these beauties that jumped into my email today, from 1st dibs.com. Same for lighting...the hunt is what's fun. In thrift shops, flea markets, special antique events, shops, on vacation. Consider buying vintage, antique, for a natural patina an item can only get from time. Take a look at this image of a kitchen I designed with vintage lighting and tell me it doesn't enhance the whole kitchen! I've had more phone calls from people around the country after this was published, asking where they could find
October 15th is Blog Action Day, when thousands of bloggers band together to write about a single important issue: the environment. A Penny Closer decided to join in the effort to help raise awareness in our own little way; by showing how frugality and earth-friendly actions often go hand in hand.
Reducing your household waste not only helps the environment but it can help save you money, too. Imagine how much money and garbage bin space you might save if you could use items you typically dispose of to fill a household need.
Even the act of throwing away trash can cost money! For instance, some places may charge you for throwing away more garbage than their preset amount, not to mention the added expense of having to buy more garbage bags.
If everyone would find ways to reuse the things they would normally throw away, or choose durability over the convenience of disposability, we could make a real difference. Not only would we be helping the environment by reducing our impact on l
PTHPasteboard, a free version of “PTHPasteboard PRO”, watches you while you work and keeps a copy of any items that you have copied to your ‘pasteboard’. Then you can quickly retrieve items from your pasteboard to reuse.
To get started, download a copy of PTHPasteboard. Open the .dmg file and you’ll be presented with the ‘install’ screen. Double-click the PTHPasteboard.prefPane file in the middle.
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After it installs, your System Preferences will probably open and PTHPasteboard will launch. Click the Start PTHPasteboard button to start it. If you decide you really like it, you can come back later and place a check in the Start at Login box.
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As soon as PTHPasteboard starts, a ‘pasteboard’ will appear. If you have anything currently in your clipboard (text, a file/folder) it will be displayed.
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Now copy something else (just pick a random file)
And that file will show up
We are always told to reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink before we do any purchase in order to save our earth from Global Warming.
We can reduce the usage of our electricity by or set timer or increase our air conditional temperature to 24 degree or more; we reuse our own food container to reduce the usage of plastic or PVC food container; we rethink before we buy any new electronic products or electronic accessories, but have you ever think of that we shall reuse the sewage water as our drinking water?
I came across an interesting article from Asia News Network that Singapore converts its waste water into crystal-clear liquid that look and tastes like any other bottled water. This crystal-clear drinking water is produces by Singapore’s NEWater Centre.
You dare to drink it? I’m amazed with their technology and according to the informations provided in NEWater’s website, this is a high grade water purified using a 3-step process involving advanced membrane tec
So are you wondering why you would want to save your searches?Think about it - How would you like the ability to dynamically find the items you need with a saved search? So the boss called and said - I need all the purchase orders less than a months old and tagged Smith?How about Power Point Presentations created by your partner in the past two weeks? All of those with the letter z in the title? Just the ones with the word NEW in the filename? We see your creating crazy searches and we know you hate to have to recreate em' each time. Do you want to make it a little easier on your self?? Save them searches!No problemo senor! Just follow these simple steps:Browse as normal to Start Search. Type any characters in the search box (a star works great because, as a wildcard, it won't restrict the search once you save it)then click Advanced Search. Modify the fields however you want and when you are satisified, click Save Search.And you now have a custom search saved for you! You can set up
Glenn and Jeremy have recently posted about the hypocrisy of bottled water. This is something that has been on my mind a lot recently as well. I did a post last summer about bottled water vs. tap in linke to a great article in E Magazine. To recap: it has been determined in studies that bottled water has no great nutritional value than tap; for the price of one bottle of Evian you get 1,000 gallons of tap water; every year 1.5 million barrels of oil are used to make plastic water bottles; and only five percent of plastic water bottles are recycled.
After reading the article, I vowed to stop drinking bottled water. I ordered a reusable water bottle online only to find that the filter contained some bad chemicals and it was only for emergency use. I gave up and since then have done, well, nothing. But those downhere guys got me fired up again.
Jeremy concluded that he would reuse his plastic water bottles. I got ready to warn him. I had read in several different places tha
Welcome to Works for Me Wednesday, sponsored by Rocks In My Dryer.Storage is something I need a lot of around here, but plastic buckets add up in cash. I also hate to throw away usable things, so instead of waste money on something that will break in a short time, I us containers from packaging I already bought for something else. Here are a few items I've used, some which have lasted me longer than those $15-$20 plastic bins:1. Empty Bandaid boxes: Top lid flap folded up to align with back and secured with tape. Placed on back. One holds Bandaids stacked on sides from left to right. The other holds ointment tubes. Both fit in my rectangle Tupperware container I used for a first aid kid way back in Girl Scouts when earning my first aid badge.2. Cell phone boxes: Top lid flap removed, tipped onto the narrow long side, stacked. Serves as envelope holders. 3. Small narrow cardboard box with flaps removed, laid on back. Houses tape dispenser, small Rolodex card file holder, and stapler. K
There is a debate waging in gardening circles over the common practice of discarding potting soil in favour of fresh material every time a gardener transplants or repots a plant. Even Marie Iannotti is polling gardeners as to their use and re-use of potting mix.
Jeff Ball from Gardening and Yardening has rebutted the timeless advice offered by many a gardening expert, instead choosing to renew his potting mix and reuse it. But is it wise to counter expert opinion and go against the grain of traditional thinking?
At AllExperts.com, another subsidiary of About.com, resident gardening expert James L. Crowder is an obvious proponent of dumping used potting mix and advising gardeners to use fresh. In one piece of advice to a fellow gardener who was requesting suggestions for a struggling tree, Crowder finishes his response with "If you can repot it, throw away the old soil, don't reuse it.".
Without reading the question one might assume that the querying gardener has soil-borne problem
We just had snow last week and now this week we hit 72 degrees. Yeah!.The only problem is that now the mosquitoes are already out looking for blood.Definitely need to add "Off" to my grocery list.Well, I moved my log in link to the middle of the homepage of Grocerywiz.com. My hope is that this will remind visitors to log in when they first get to the site so they can reuse their last saved grocery list.I'm worried that visitors will forget to log in and and have to start with a new list from scratch.The whole idea of logging into the site is to be able to save the list for the next time you have to go to the store.I know how easy it is to forget to log in into the site. I have done it many times. Worst yet, I will have half my list created and realize I haven't logged in yet, bummer.
My block has a recycle chute, which is just next to the usual rubbish chute. It is finally in operation on 6 December, after months of very noisy works. It’s so convenient now! I don’t have to collect all the recyclables at home and wait for the collection center staff to come every 2 or 3 weeks.I found out that we are the ONLY block in Singapore to have this recycle chute. If I did hear correctly, for the region too! It’s a pioneer project. Just like the rubbish chute we have in the estate. It’s a pioneer project too. The refuse truck doesn’t come to collect the waste. It’s being sucked out to somewhere else. Good huh? No foul smell.哥哥 asked me about the recycle chute and I told him, we must help protect the environment by throwing recyclables in that chute. Guess what he said? “Oh! I know already! Reuse, Reduce, Recycle! Bob (the builder) taught me already!”
Información Sobre el Reciclaje Una Casa Ecologista El Abono Orgánico Información sobre el reciclaje Reciclaje en las residencias Comercios y negocios Para los niños Las compañías de recolección de basura Introducción A menudo la palabra reciclaje se utiliza para significar cualquier tipo de reducción de desperdicios, pero en realidad "reciclar" describe el proceso que reduce un artículo a su material básico y luego lo emplea para hacer un artículo nuevo. El papel, el vidrio y el metal se...
