By Liesl Clark (If you want to go directly to our donations page at Active Giving, feel free to skip this article and do some good.) When our first child ...
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15 Uses For Berry Baskets
By Liesl Clark It’s strawberry season and most stores will stock their ...
What To Do With Orange Peels
By Liesl Clark Orange peel skin, and citrus peel in general, whether ...
25 Super Silica Gel Reuses
By Liesl Clark Silica gel is one of those little-understood materials. Although ...
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20 Free Crafts Not Plastic
By Liesl Clark When my children reached elementary school age and we enrolled them in programs that had art classes, we were amazed at how few natural materials were used for art supplies and just how much of it was plastic: glitter glue, colorful plastics for mosaics, acrylic-coated feathers, various items to be “recycled” through […]
Frugal Freedom: DIY Hummingbird Nectar
by Rebecca Rockefeller Mix Up Your Own Nectar for Happy Hummingbirds If you’ve never put out a hummingbird feeder, this might be a perfect year to start. There’s no need to buy nectar or nectar mix from a store – Making your own is easy and inexpensive. Hummingbirds can be found in North, Central, and […]
How To Do Bathtub Laundry
By Liesl Clark If you ever have a power outage and need to do an important load of laundry, consider the bathtub! We’ve done bathtub laundry all over the world, mostly because you can do it in any location that has a tub and this simple practice saves a bundle of money if you’re traveling. […]
Food Less Plastic: DIY Electrolyte Replacement Drink
DIY Electrolyte Replacement Drink Perfect Whenever You’d Otherwise Drink Gatorade or Pedialyte by Rebecca Rockefeller We’ve had a few new reasons to re-hydrate ourselves here recently, both good and bad. Good: We’ve had unusually warm spring weather, perfect for long days of work and play outside. Bad: A fierce but short-lived gastrointestinal virus has […]
Lamenting Airplane Plastics
By Liesl Clark We were being encroached upon by hundreds of clear plastic bags. They were on our laps, around our sleepy heads, stuffed under our feet, indeed engulfing our food and toiletries. Somehow, we had become unsuspecting plassengers on an 11-hour plastic-sealed adventure across the Pacific. How had we fallen head-first into this sea […]
Reducing, Reusing, Recycling and Recovering Batteries
By Liesl Clark The average American has at least 10 batteries in their possession at any given time and throws away 8 batteries per year. Should we recycle batteries? Absolutely, for the mercury and cadmium in our batteries can wreak havoc on the environment. According to the Environmental Health and Safety Organization, “In landfills, heavy […]
20 Uses For Banana Peels
The Miraculous Banana and Its Peel. Photo © Liesl Clark The banana peel, like coffee grounds, tea leaves, and orange peels has a lot of beneficial qualities that’ll make you think twice the next time you toss it in the trash. We’ve gathered 20 of the best banana peel uses for you to try: 1) […]
100 Things You Never Need To Buy
How often do people act on the first of the infamous 3 Rs? “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” Reducing means refusing to buy that thing in the first place and this list is a growing testimony to how possible it is to eliminate certain things from your everyday purchases, if you’re willing to try. Why do it? […]
Stop Junk Mail With PaperKarma
By Liesl Clark According to some estimates, the average US household receives 850 unsolicited pieces of mail each year. Well we’re way over that average, I believe. And I’ve tried for years to reduce it. Here’s a picture of one month’s-worth of junk mail sitting on my desk: Enter PaperKarma. As a Buddhist, I admit […]
Fix (Almost) Everything With Sugru
By Liesl Clark We didn’t know about sugru until a couple weeks ago, and it’s already fixed several household items we were sure we’d have to throw away. Sugru, according to sugru, does and is this: “sugru is the exciting new self-setting rubber that can be formed by hand. It moulds like play-dough, bonds to almost […]
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