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Heather's Organized Home

A place for bills to land? Check. A spot for shoes, reusable bags and miscellaneous items? Double check. What we love about Heather's organized home is that she's thought of everything. Every ite...

Fence-A-Thon Block Party!
Austin

Last month we brought you an event taking place in Austin that combined both helping the community and recycling. Called the Fence Me In Project, the aim of the project was to gather the community to...

Roundup: New Uses For Old Glass Bottles

We're a big fan of repurposing items around the home (especially if they mix well with your established decor). Our style could be defined as eclectic meets vintage so giving glass bottles another li...

Good Questions: Los Angeles Reclaimed Lumber Options?
Los Angeles

I am trying to locate a source for reclaimed lumber in the LA area. So far, my attempts have turned up nil. I would like to use reclaimed wood for a sofa table/office combo that my husband and I are b...

Tri3: The Three Tier Space Saving Trashcan

Guisset Constance and Cid Grégory's Tri3 trashcan manages to provide three separate containers in a space saving vertical form, perfect for those of us who like to neatly keep our recyclables separat...

Simple Green: Paint Yourself Green by Recycling Paint

You've finished painting your walls and successfully brought new life to your interior. Job well done. But what about the excess paint, thinners or strippers you've got left? We always recommend ...

Guide to Hard-to-Recycle Materials

We were just reading one of the comments left here criticizing the non-recyclable content in a bubble wrap calendar design which drove us to search online looking for places to recycle plastic packagi...

Green @ Home Project: The Bokashi Composter

Green month here at ATLA has happily coincided with our decision to try out Bokashi composting. We've always wanted to try our hand at composting but traditional composting requires a solitary corne...

LA Curbside Recycling Expands Accepted Materials

Good news! The LA Bureau of Sanitation has expanded their approved listing of recyclable materials you can put inside your trusty blue bin each week. All clean plastics from types 1-7, plastic grocery...

Look! Yogurt Container Lampshade

As if we didn't miss real European yogurt enough as it is (we have yet to find a yogurt stateside that nears the delicious creamy quality of french concoctions), we see this mod-a-licious overhead lam...

Cartonnistes DIY Cardboard Furniture

We're now looking at all the large cardboard boxes in a new light after seeing these impressive DIY furniture creations made by the Parisian artist collective known as the Cartonnistes. Founder Eric G...

Composting

Did anyone see Oprah yesterday and her Earth Day Special? We happened to catch a moment where Julia Roberts was fluffing the compost....

Look! Modular Water Jug Storage Bins

Check out this crafty idea to store small items! Over at the Instructables site, member Randofo created this shelving system he made recycling regular 2 gallon drinking water jugs......

Where to Recycle or Donate Your Outbox

For the Curees, who are halfway through the Spring Cure, now’s a good time to empty your outbox. Once you’ve weeded out the stuff you want to save, the stuff that has to go back into your home, a...

TOP: Color Coded Trash Bin System

We just use old grocery bags to hold our recyclables, but our anal-organizer's dream would to be to have something like this Authentic TOP waste bin system......

Greetje Van Tiem recycled newspaper yarn

Wow, talk about recycling newspapers being a good thing! This gorgeous yarn is actually made of newspapers! Designer Greetje Van Tiem takes old newspaper and spins them into these spools, then makes ...

Los Angeles Composting/ Recycling Workshop

Looking to start 2008 with not only a green thumb, but also a greener lifestyle and some tasty greens while you're at it? John Lyons, a passionate green gardener who runs The Woven Garden, will be hos...

Styrofoam Recycling: Curbside in LA

We love getting packages in the mail and around this time of year we start getting plenty. Some are gifts we've ordered online for friends and family and some are gifts for us! We can't wait to te...