The Great Compost Giveaway!
When we were pint-sized ragamuffins, Pops would pile empty garbage bins in to the minivan and drag our tiny behinds down to the horse stables to load up on good ole stinkin' horse manure. We'd haul ...
Posts tagged “recycling & donating”
How To: Use Your Green Compost Bin
The Kitchn recently posted about the great green compost carts that are now part of San Francisco's waste removal program. We've been reading up on what is and is not acceptable, and realized we still...
How To: Prettify a Plain Tealight Holder
Patricia is a graphic designer and mom who just posted this great DIY project on her blog, Little Hut. The decoration around a simple glass votive holder casts beautiful shadows to up the impact of...
How To: Make an Incognito Water Catchment System
If you live in the Northwest, you've probably seen rainwater barrels at the sides of houses to catch and reuse what we seem to have plenty of up here. But if big plastic barrels aren't part of the a...
The Salvation Army's Donation Website
daveybot's photo of a BIG chair Big furniture, small car. We really didn't set out to do The Spring Cure. But this past weekend we suddenly found ourselves in the midst of some Curing of our own. ...
Cable Reel Rocking Chair
Our preschool was all over the cable reel furniture, but that usually meant tables or rolling toys, that, in hindsight, seem terribly dangerous. David Meddings Design takes these industrial castoff...
BioBag Biodegrable Plastic Bags
Since we're currently Cure-ing, lots of stuff is going to be making its way out of our house in trash bags in the next few weeks. In our ongoing efforts to live a greener life, we're thinking it would...
Recycled Carrier Bag Chair
...Carrier Bag meaning plastic grocery bag. We had to share this, even if it's not the cutest or most glamorous item we've ever come across. What it is, though, is an innovative way to turn landfi...
Rice & Feed Laundry Bag & Wastebasket at VivaTerra
We ususally see products made from rice bags in muted, earthy canvas colors, which is why these from VivaTerra made us pay more attention than usual....
Look!: Kitchen Counter Compost Chute
Not to brag, but San Francisco and Alameda counties have pretty awesome recycling programs. We get a big barrel for recycling (no sorting required!), a small barrel for trash (that we often don't fi...
SF Good Questions: Where Can I Recycle Electronic Equipment?
AT:SF, I have some old electronic equipment (Stereo, speakers, TV) that I don't use anymore. Do you know of good (green) places to recycle stuff like this in the Bay Area? Thanks! Lisa...
Blogging the Seattle Times: Wrapped in Scrap
What do you do if you live in the sleepy town of Langley, on Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound, and you want a modern house with clean, industrial lines akin to a converted warehouse? Such a house may...
32,000 Pieces of UC Art at East Bay Depot
Recycled art? One of our favorite resources for funky supplies, the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, has recently gotten a windfall of a donation. The UC Berkeley Art History Department has given t...
Folding Recycling Bags from Gaiam
The best thing about Gaiam's folding recycling bags are the line-drawing illustrations on the front, describing what goes in what bag. It matches the pure function aesthetic, as opposed to the bulk...
Scrabble Board Placemats
Okay, we know this is silly. But on the heels of Tuesday's post about $59 reproductions of board games as wall art, we felt duty-bound to share this picture of Scrabble boards as placemats at The S...
Three Re-uses of a Plastic Gelato Cup
Though it's not exactly gelato season, we've held on to these cute little plastic gelato cups from the now long-distant and longed-for summer. Since we kept them we might as well use 'em, and we lo...
Blogging the Seattle Times: A Shared Sensibility
Last week's Seattle Times featured Meredith MacLeod and John de Wit's Whidbey Island home. The couple are artists: she a glass-tile artist and printmaker; he a glass-blower......
Blogging InStyle Home: Stylish Recycling Station
Hidden in the corner no more. We were immediately taken by this idea for bringing our recycling into the light � providing valuable surface area to boot....
Look!: POM Tea Glass
Suckered (or inspired?) by the packaging. Youve seen the pomegranate juice in its hourglass-shaped bottle. This is the tea version of that, in what POM's website calls a "keepsake glass." We were...
Top 10: Places to Recycle Cell Phones
Recently forced to buy a new cell phone since the provider switched networks, we're looking for a place to donate our old, beloved Motorola. Here are a few possibilities we've come up with. Please d...
How to: Recycle like a Pro instead of a Shmo
Ever wonder whether it's ok to throw the top in with the bottle? Whether you need to peel off the label? Wonder no further because the government's Energy Information Administration's site for kids, ...
How do You Get Rid of Stuff?
Lately we've been cleaning out stuff again. (And it's not even during The Cure.) We realized we rarely just toss anything other than real garbage. Besides trading at used bookstores, donating to ch...
Plastic Bag Dryers: Not just for hippies
With the approach of SF's plastic shopping bag ban we've been thinking about the other class of non-decomposing plastic bags that pass into our kitchen via the grocery store and then just as quickly i...
Donating Books to the SFPL
We want to paint our bedroom, but before we can do so, we have to be able to move the bookshelves away from the wall. And before we can move the bookshelves, we have to remove the books. Which is how ...
2-Bin Recycle Center
This 2-Bin Recycle Center is great for several reasons: Its design is simple and pretty inconspicuous (credit the Italians). It has two front-loading compartments, each with a removable 4.25-gallon...
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