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• Stay Hydrated With Platypus

  Published: August 7, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Drinking, Hydration, Platypus, Reusable, Water, Water Bottle

  it's a great idea to use a reusable water bottle. Both Nalgene and SIGG bottles are great, but if your goal is to stay hydrated during some kind of strenuous activity, lugging around a hard bottle can be kind of annoying. Check out these bottles made by a company called Platypus . Their water bottles and carriers come in a range of sizes

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• Back to School: Brown bag* lunches for the high school set

  Published: September 6, 2007, 6:50 am

  Tags: Brown Bag Lunches, Brownbaglunches, Cream Cheese Chicken, Fruit, Nuts, Reusable Bags, Turkey Tortilla Wraps, Veggies Hummus, Yogurt Granola

  Filed under: Grains, Vegetables, Dairy, Poultry, Fruit, How To, Back to SchoolBy the time I got to high school, I was totally responsible for my own lunch. I got $20 a week for allowance and any movies, outings with friends, cafeteria lunches and after school treats had to come from that twenty. I brought my lunch a lot to save my pennies for

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• Sew Your Own: "Green" Grocery Bags

  Published: September 10, 2007, 9:46 am

  Tags: Fashion Shopping, Green Eco Conscious, Hobbies Crafts Diy, Crafts, Green Living, Reusable Bags, Sewing, Shopping Bags

  September is National Sewing Month.  Last year, if you recall, I gave you some guidance on the basics of sewing (here, here, here and here.)  This year, we're applying those lessons again. I've picked a favorite craftying activity of mine: sewing some kind of bag.  It might be a simple grocery tote, a cute felted bag, or a real

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• eBay Find of the Week

  Published: October 13, 2007, 4:22 am

  Tags: Shopping Bag, Fashion, Ebay Find Of The Week, Martin Margiela, Mm6, Reusable Bag

  his MM6-line shoppers a reusable bag when they purchase something. But it’s no ordinary flimsy shopping bag; it is made of braided polypropylene, which means it won’t rip. If you’d rather get a totally cool shopping bag with images from the MM6 collection, then you’re in luck.You’re looking at the only [...]

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• Make your own reusable grocery bags

  Published: October 17, 2007, 11:45 am

  Tags: Apartment Therapy, Apartmenttherapy, Green Home, Make Your Own, Reusable Grocery Bags

  my own efforts to carry reusable bags to the grocery store. In that post, I confessed that my reusable bag purchasing habit was potentially canceling out the effectiveness of using those bags, as I kept buying new ones. I'm happy to state that I've gotten that buying bug under control and that I am now using and reusing the same bags

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• 10 Reasons Why You Should Use a Reuseable Grocery Bag

  Published: October 24, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: New York, Environment, Reusable Bags

  1) A Plastic bag takes 450 years to biodegrade. 2) The production of Paper bags causes 70% more pollution than Plastic. read more

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• Everystockphoto Stock Search Relaunches [Digital Photos]

  Published: January 17, 2008, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Creative Commons, Digital Photos, Reusable Media

  See also six ways to find reusable media. everystockphoto

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• Reusable ways to wrap your sandwich

  Published: March 12, 2008, 10:03 am

  Tags: Green, Green Daily, Lunch, Reusable, Sandwich Wrapper, Towards Sustainability, Towardssustainability

  few plastic bags. There are reusable plastic container options out there, but what about checking out a reusable sandwich wrap? If you want to make your own, check out out how this Australian mom made a sandwich wrapper for her daughter out of some fabric, a zip top bag and some old velcro (via Green Daily). Last year at the Vegan Lunch Box,

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• Unpackaged minimizes the waste

  Published: April 14, 2008, 10:33 am

  Tags: Envirosax, Food Packaging, Foodpackaging, Reusable Packing, Reusablepacking, Treehugger, Unpackaged

  to bring as much of your own reusable packaging along with you as possible. Reading Treehugger this morning, I discovered that such a store does exist, although its in London, too far away from me to make it practical. It is called Unpackaged and sells all of its products loose. You bring your own container or buy a nice-looking reusable one

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• Clean green sunshiney bags

  Published: June 3, 2008, 11:28 am

  Tags: England, Urban, Graffiti, Liverpool, Sigma Lens, Olympus510, Street Art, Environment, Green Living, Cloth Bags, Reusable Bags, Rain, B W, Nature

  I can dry my eco-green-reusable-save-the-planet-cloth-bags in the sweltering sun. Don’t worry, the ironical-ness of the situation is not lost on me Do you know, I just looked at this photo again and realised that while some of these bags are fairly new, that purple tie-dyed one (the third one in) is over 8 years old. I remember

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• Partying really can be fun!

  Published: June 9, 2008, 1:45 am

  Tags: Children, Birthday Parties, Childrens Parties, Disposable Plates, Goody Bags, Health Food, Reusable Plates, Theme Parties

  Parties should be about entertainment and having fun, not about the food. And more so when it comes to children. Yet recently, my daughter has been invited to a number of parties by her preschool friends, and they've all been at an indoor play center. Usually, this follows a set routine- 10 minutes of play [...]

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• Solar Curtains Turn Unwanted Sunlight Into Energy [Solar Energy]

  Published: June 12, 2008, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Solar Energy, Curtains, Energy, Reusable, Reusable Energy, Solar, Solar Curtains

  Solar energy for household use is a pretty genius idea and one that we think will be come more and more commonplace in the next few years. These curtains are semi-transparent and flexible, turning sunlight into electricity whenever you're blocking out light to keep the home cool. These, along with having solar panels on the roof that power your

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• Ecologie bags

  Published: June 13, 2008, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Canvas, Eco Chic, Ecochic, Ecologie Bags, Ecologiebags, Ll Bean, Llbean, Lond, Palm Beach, Palmbeach, Plastic Bags, Plasticbags, Reusable Bag, Reusablebag

  that is also durable and reusable. And did we mention light?Continue reading Ecologie bagsPermalink   Email this

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• Reusing jars for wet bulk foods

  Published: June 16, 2008, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Good Food Store, Goodfoodstore, No Impact Man, Noimpactman, Reusable Jars, Reusablejars, Single Use Containers, Singleusecontainers

  work with me each day in a reusable mug or canning jar (I like the canning jar better, because it means I can seal up my coffee and toss it in my bag until I get to work. I realize a thermos would also work, but I get a crazy sense of satisfaction out of drinking from a glass jar). I've also tried to find places that sell in bulk and where I

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• 5 green ideas under $5.

  Published: June 23, 2008, 5:14 pm

  Tags: Home And Lifestyle, Beeswax Candles, Cloth Bags, Coffee Mug, Natural Bath Soap, Organic Milk, Parabens, Reusable Shopping Bags

  So, the same person asked me if I can come up with 5 things under $5 to do, which would be considered green. No, we shall not comment on her cheapness, but instead get down to seeing if it’s possible. And of course it is. 1. Organic Milk: If buying organic fruits and vegetables is too [...]

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