
Another great resource is available for those looking to recycle those trickier items. A group called ReCORK promotes the recycling of wine corks, and uses them to create trees and forests in efforts to limit climate change.
"Natural cork, the kind used in wine closures, is a perfect choice for recycling. It’s 100% natural, biodegradable and renewable. There is no reason natural wine corks should end up as garbage when recycled cork can become flooring tiles, building ...
March is National Craft Month, and as someone who indulges in many different crafts I for one will be celebrating with some serious crafting time this month. Whilst crafting can be time intensive it can also be eco-unfriendly so I though today we'd look at some ways to green up our crafting so we can reduce our global crafty footprint. It all basically comes down to the old eco-friendly adage of "reduce, reuse and recycle" but lets look into it further.
Crafts such as knitting and crocheting can be pretty expensive with the cost of tools, and wool but how about instead reusing and ...



It seems whatever products we purchase these days we have to think twice about due to rampant overuse of dangerous chemicals, animal testing, sustainability of the product and potential recycling of used products. Some products are available to help though like "Tom's of Maine" toothpaste. Tom's of Maine was founded in 1970 and based on the idea that nature has answers to everyday needs, and that nature not chemicals were the answer. Over the years their teams of herbal experts, dental health ...

Every gardener will know that feeling twice a year when the seed catalogs begin to come through the mail! Spending hours perusing the pages of lovely vegetables, especially in the winter months when the Summer season lays ahead and photo's of succulent homegrown tomatoes and eggplants fill the pages, or as we gardeners call it - garden porn! But really is buying seeds the only way to go? Naturally we can purchase organic non-GMO seeds from sustainable seed growers but how can we gardeners get more eco-friendly? By saving our own seeds and making ourselves more self-sufficient.

Occasionally as I'm browsing the internet I come across some items or companies that are eco-friendly and sustainable and I just HAVE to share.
Alchemy Goods
Alchemy Goods says it all with their mission statement "Turning
useless into useful". Alchemy Goods was conceived one day when a busy cyclists messenger bag got stolen, being eco-friendly they didn't want to just run out and replace it. Instead they took a second look around at what was on hand and made something using the old inner tubes from bikes, and Alchemy Goods was born.