Recycle

Poster I saw at the Bay Village, OH library. Although Cuyahoga county makes a special effort for computer recycling in the month of August, you can recycle your old computers at any time. Here’s how:
1. Take off your personal info that is stored on the computer. This includes financial information, photos, address book/contact information, and [...]

We had some old tiles and wood. We needed some tables for the patio Brian built last summer. He made some. He rocks!
He’s made 3 so far, two square ones and one long rectangle one. He’s going to make some high square one for my bookstore also, excitement! We [...]

I am so impressed that you use cloth diapers, that was one thing I flat-out refused to do with my kids with any serious effort. With my youngest, now 10, I did use cloth diapers some of the time but not very often. I wish I had not used disposables and I thank you for [...]

Freecycle is made up of 4,137 groups with 3,944,000 members across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.
Stuff I’ve gotten through freecyle: good condition futon mattress, books, back [...]

I am making 2 kitchen mats out of plastic grocery bags. I will be done with them by the end of the month. It’s going slow now because I only work on them when I’m watching TV, and I just don’t watch a lot of TV.
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I’d like to share ideas on how we each choose to reduce our ecological impact. I’ll be doing a separate post on each of these things, just wanted to get this out there. Here are some things I do:
- I have reduced the amount of garbage I add to landfills by composting organic waste including [...]