Shopping Tote Tutorials Roundup
Karen of Altered Cloth has a roudup of tutorials for making your own shopping tote bag. Link.
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Soy wallets
Soy wallets has (you guessed it) wallets from soy milk containers, they’re for sale – but the instructions are at the bottom of the page… Link.
HOW TO – Tell Temperature with Crickets
The always-entertaining Robert Krulwich had a fun segment on ABC World News Monday night about using cricket chirps to calculate temperature. Apparently, as male crickets heat up, they chirp more rapidly. By counting the chirps, especially of one species, the Snowy Tree Cricket (Oecanthus fultoni), you can get a fairly accurate temperature. Here’s how: Find […]
HOW TO – Turn Cereal Boxes into Gift Boxes
Eco-artware.com has a great way to make your own gift boxes by using your old cereal boxes, complete with downloadable PDF pattern. Link.
Giant microwave turns plastic back to oil
Convert plastics back to oil using microwaves… – A US company is taking plastics recycling to another level – turning them back into the oil they were made from, and gas. All that is needed, claims Global Resource Corporation (GRC), is a finely tuned microwave and – hey presto! – a mix of materials that […]
Recycled Pot Rack – made from a bike wheel
Sandor writes – We built this piece out of an old bike wheel. The wheel came off of GT full suspension bike that I broke. The whole project cost around $15 from HomeDepot. There is one bolt that goes through the hub, and a coupling that links that to a bolt that is half metal […]
Remake – Sustainable Paper Goods
Freshly Blended points to Remake, a shop on Etsy that creates beautiful paper goods using salvaged materials. All of their items from cards to labels are silk screened and sewn by hand. [ via ] Link.
