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Recycle DIY – How to Make Your Own Homemade Recycled Paper!

max — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:56:05 +0000

You don’t have to rely only on your local recycling company to product recycling paper, you can learn to make your own homemade recycled paper. Plus, they can come out pretty colorful, great for your kids to draw and drool on.

handmade paper is a perfect after school project for your children…simple, a little messy & lots of fun….you can make paper out of almost anything….we made lavender & grass paper….and even cinnamon paper….here’s the 411 about making your own paper….use your imagination & enjoy….

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Table DIY – How to Make a Table Out of Recycled Wood!

max — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:20:44 +0000

Here’s a great way to make a table using recycled wood. When I get a big house, I will certainly make one myself. (and upload me doing so on YouTube)

The results on this table are rather magnificent, I didn’t know you could do that with old wood.

There’s a lot of wood out in the world free for the taking — in dumpsters, back alleys, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, recycling yards, and architectural salvage centers. Most wood, if free from rot, is just as strong, durable, and good to use as new wood, once you sand off the weathering. This table was made from all salvaged wood — both dimensional lumber and plywood, mostly taken from decaying buildings in and around Hale County, Alabama

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Table DIY – How to Make a Table Out of Recycled Wood!

Recycle DIY – How to Recycle Tin Cans as Pencil Holders using Grout and Creativity!

max — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:53:57 +0000

I really love it when people make things like this out of stuff that would go into your recycling bin, a pencil holder made using old tin cans and grout! Brilliant! Keep up the great work and reduce our carbon footprint!

We all use some canned foods from time to time. And we all probably use empty cans for one purpose or another. This instructable shows how to decorate cans to be used as organizers for pencils, pens, paint brushes, etc. It’s a simple thing to do, and children would especially have fun making their creations.

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Recycle DIY – How to Recycle Tin Cans as Pencil Holders using Grout and Creativity!

Re-use DIY – How to Make Recycled Wallpaper!

max — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:56:52 +0000

I remember when I lived in South Korea for a year couple years back, there used to be a bunch of bars where the walls were pasted with DIY newspaper wallpapers. Of course, they looks sorta nicer, it wasn’t just pasted randomly but looks “clean”.

I think this is a great way to make any room in your home “vintage”. Even better, you might be able to make a wallpaper out of all your old photos somehow, that would be more awesome than your digital frame that’s pushing out only 1 image per second.

you can make wallpaper out of anything from newspapers and magazines to color copies by applying them to the wall with polyurethane (one coat underneath and one on top to seal the paper).

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Re-use DIY – How to Make Recycled Wallpaper!

Where buses go to die

David Allen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:00:08 +0000

Making the most of the materials that we have is an important thing these days, so when designer Christopher Fennell came up with his design for a bus shelter nobody should have been surprised to see what it was made from.

This is a cool idea, but you have to think that this sort of work would not go down well in all neighbourhoods.

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Where buses go to die

Recycle DIY – How to Convert a Broken Gate into Outdoor Table!

max — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:50:20 +0000

Perhaps recycling has not been done often enough in our world, especially those who have to constantly fix their house and throw away broken things.

Well, if your house gate ever breaks and you can use it anymore, you might want to consider converting it into an outdoor table. As seen in the above pics, the steps don’t seem too complicated, simply get 4 legs on it.

The gates at the side of our house succumbed to a big wind storm recently. The cause was ground rot on the posts, but that meant that most of the wood was still in pretty good condition despite being over thirty years old. Instead of throwing it out my wife suggested recycling it to make an outdoor table.

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Recycle DIY – How to Convert a Broken Gate into Outdoor Table!

Save Earth Idea – Recycling Arcade Game!

max — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:13:42 +0000

Call me a gambler but I think the world would have much more incentive to recycle if we had more of these recycling arcade games in every block of every city in the world.

Even better, I’d say legalize gambling legal just for these recycling arcade games except that you can only use recyclable bottles and cans as money. (but win money if you hit jackpot)

I think it’s a safe bet since most casinos do take the money, I don’t see how the government could lose.

Of course, with the amount of politics involved, this might not be possible but indeed would make recycling a whole lot more efficient and fun.

Even those who are broke from gambling in real casinos can collect cans/bottles to try again, perhaps win jackpot and another life.

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The 2010 Olympic Medals made from old computers

David Allen — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:00:51 +0000

It is amazing really, when you think about the Olympics, top athletes and champions spring to mind, but to win a medal means that they are at the top of form and the best in the world. Therefore, at every Olympics the medals are designed to represent the games and the city where they are held.

This time the medals have been designed by Corrine Hunt and Omer Arbel, they have used recycled materials to make the gold, silver and bronze medals. These materials were at one time inside an electrical device such as a cell phone or computer.

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The 2010 Olympic Medals made from old computers

Eco-Gadget Review – Foot CanCrusher!

max — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:54:55 +0000

Want to get some healthy lower body exercises while recycling and helping reduce world’s carbon footprint? No look further as we have found the perfect tool for that, a Foot CanCrusher! (available @Amazon for only $19.98) via keetsa

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Eco-Gadget Review – Foot CanCrusher!

Recycle DIY – How to Make Old Light Bulbs into Flower Vases!

max — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:26:57 +0000

Check out this awesome DIY by Giannina Lezcano who shows you how to make old light bulbs into flower vase, this is the most innovative DIY I have seen so far using old light bulbs.

She uses wires to connect the old light bulbs together and hangs the bulbs upside down so she can fill it with water and put flower to grow in.

We need more people like Giannina in our world. Brilliant!

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Recycle DIY – How to Make Old Light Bulbs into Flower Vases!

Recycle Hack – How to Turn your Old Car into an Artistic Ball!

max — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:33:18 +0000

Don’t know what to do with your old car? Turn it into a big artistic ball! – link

Not sure what to do with that old gas guzzler? How about turning it into a giant ball? That’s what artist Keny Marshall did with this 1983 Jeep Grand Wagoneer. There aren’t any build instructions, but you should be able to figure it out from the construction video.

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Re-use DIY – How to Make a Soap Holder out of an Onion Bag!

max — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:14:48 +0000

In Asia, particularly South Korea where I am from, people have been using soap holder with meshed bag like below to keep bathrooms smelling nice for decades or as long as I can remember.

Well, here’s how to make your own soap holder with an Onion Bag, it might be a cheap alternative to making your bathroom/closet smelling more soapy! (or just use it as regular soap)

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Re-use DIY – How to Make a Soap Holder out of an Onion Bag!

Recycle DIY – How to Make a CD Clock!

max — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:00:15 +0000

Here’s a really cool way to recycle your old favorite CDs into clocks and works of art. These would make great gifts for your loved ones. via instructables

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Recycle DIY – How to Make a CD Clock!

Ribbon DIY – How to Make Ribbons from Recycled Materials!

max — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:35:15 +0000

Hurray, it’s pink ribbon month this month, don’t forget to check out the Top 5 pink ribbon gadgets for raising world-wide awareness for breast-cancer. Of course, if you have some recycled “pink” materials laying around, it might be actually a great idea to make you won “recycled” pink ribbon. (Follow this guide here)

Also, this might be a great way to make your ribbons for presents and whatnot, and WHY NOT if you can also recycle our Earth’s precious resources?!?

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Ribbon DIY – How to Make Ribbons from Recycled Materials!

Home DIY – How to Make High Volume Rain Water Barrel!

max — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:58:13 +0000

I guess it’s actually “illegal” in the state of Colorado to collect rain water but for those of you living elsewhere, you can learn how to make high volume rain water barrel. This could be a great way to have reserve water for your plants and whatnot. Besides recycling natural water, you will cut down on your bills too.

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Home DIY – How to Make High Volume Rain Water Barrel!

Earth DIY – HOW TO Make Hotel Magnetic Key Jewelry!

max — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:51:49 +0000

This one’s for all those ladies out there who have been traveling often, learn how to make/recycle hotel magnetic key jewelry! I know most hotels throw away millions of these plastic magnetic keys on a daily basis, here’s a great way to help the environment while making you look more beautiful.

We cut the cards into various small shapes. I then used a leather punch (because it was handy and I didn’t feel like messing with the drill) to make holes in the top of the shapes. We then attached the jump rings and ear wires with needle nose pliers. Voila! Custom jewelry!

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Office DIY Ideas – How to Turn Office Junk into Useful Gadgets!

max — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:13:26 +0000

This is a Guest Post by Jeff Saporito from our partner blog site TestFreaks.com.

Few things on this earth become as cluttered, dirty and full of mysteries as the desks where we work all day. From shriveled lettuce fragments from a 2005 sandwich still stuck between the keys, to a curious 5” floppy disk full of unknown data that has been rolled over by the chair wheels a dozen times, there are all sorts of things buried within and around our workspaces. This is particularly true for most who work from home – as the desk constantly serves not only as a place for getting work done, but often as a table, shelf, pantry, and sometimes, a bed.

Every now and then, people bother to actually clean out their desks and get rid of all the miscellaneous bits of computer parts and office supplies for which they have absolutely no use. Massive trash bags, big enough for Dexter Morgan to fill with a dismembered 32 year-old man, get filled to the brim with random work-related bits of forgotten importance. But why junk all that stuff? There are a bunch of things you can do with all those pieces-parts – and this article aims to provide you with a few ideas. And no, I wouldn’t suggest re-shingling your roof with plastic jewel cases and gelatinous bottles of White Out. Come on, you at least have a little bit of class.

CDs

CDs may be the most common throw-away item. Everyone has a spindle worth of discs they forgot to label, discs that burned improperly, or a drawer full of leftover AOL free trials they got in the mail once a week from 1997-2001. Here are some technical, geeky, crafty, practical and stupid things to do with old CDs or DVDs:

Detach large Christmas lights (the old school fat ones like your grandpa still uses) from their string, put on the CD, and then reattach the light. It makes a neat glowing/reflecting effect.
Trace a guitar pick onto a CD and cut it out. Brand new guitar pick.
String a few together and hang it outside for a quality hillbilly prism ornament.
Stick them on fence posts to scare away birds from your garden – they hate the reflection.
There’s always the good old coaster and Frisbee options.
If they have printed labels on one side, cut them up and make a mosaic.
Smash your mosaic, and glue the pieces to a Styrofoam ball. Disco away.
Practice your ninja skills by throwing them like a shuriken at friends and family members.
They make pretty cool candle coasters.
Install a clock mechanism in the center hole, Sharpie on some numbers and you’ve got a sweet nerd clock.
Use your nerd clock to gauge when your frozen pizza is done baking, and then cut the pie with a disc edge.

Floppy & Zip Disks

No doubt you’ve got a few floppies still lying around, too. If you don’t, I have plenty, and you can have them. You could back up your hard drive or something, 1.4MB at a time, if you wanted to. The Zip disk could still be mildly useful, if only any computer on earth actually had a Zip drive…

Tile the floor in a small room with them, you nerd.
Go to this site and learn how to make a bag/purse/man sack out of floppies (http://www.instructables.com/id/Floppy-Disk-Bag/) – Just don’t give it to your mom for mother’s day.
Pop out the little metal circle part from the middle of a bunch of disks, string some cord through it (or some SATA cable if you want to be super geeky) and make a belt. Or a necklace. Or a noose.
Zip disks make great props for under the leg of that wobbly chair or table.
Fashion a bunch of them together to make a square box – you can put pencils in it! Hey, it’ll help with the clutter. We’re cleaning here, after all.
Same concept as above – but make a photo cube.
Use them to scratch food out of a casserole dish. It works. I swear.
If you have a 5” floppy, use it as a mount for some sort of art project.
Make a bracelet out of the insides of a 5” disk. Then, down a bottle of Hello Kitty pills and head to a rave in the most dilapidated building you can find.

Laptops

Aside from taking old laptops to sit on and keep the chilly bleacher metal off your bum at your son’s tee ball game, there are a handful of things you can do with them that are less ridiculous.

Make a DIY digital photo frame. Start by taking the LCD off of the rest of the laptop (which usually only requires removing one ribbon cable). Remove the plastic around the LCD, assemble a mounting board and mat around it, then glue it on. Reattach the cable to the rest of the laptop. Attach something to make a stand. If you have a screensaver program that links to Flickr or some other photo source, it’s all that much easier because you never really have to touch the thing. It’s boss.
Screw with it. Replace the case with a wooden one. Do something silly.
If it’s not a total pile, turn it into a file server. It costs less to power all day than a desktop.
Turn it into a hotspot and boost your router signal. The method depends on your OS, so look it up yourself.
Put some wheels on it and use it as a skateboard. Wear pads, you’ll get hurt.
Create a DIY hobo digital projector. Get the screen, a cooling fan, and an old style overhead projector. Check the bottom corner of the supply closet for one of those, behind the mop and Janet from accounting’s underwear. Strip down the LCD until you’re left with just the screen itself (just the black sheet and its attached VGA/DVI components). Lay it on the glass top of the overhead projector. Attach it however you need to along with the cooling fan. Connect the inputs to a video source, and you’ll have a big, digital-ish projection.
Use it as a second monitor.
Put it on your stove top and use it as a skillet to fry an egg. Only if it has a metal shell, though. I mean, you can melt it everywhere if you want…

Printers

Okay fine, there is only one suggestion for printers…

Hollow it out and plant flowers in it. They become excellent planters, especially the all-in-ones.

Pencils

Make a little fence for your plants in your printer planter box. Or in an actual planter box.
Glue a bunch together side-by-side and make a placemat or trivet.
Apparently moths hate pencil shavings. Grind them all up and put them in your closet. They will work like moth balls – but with a different, less offensive, but still unappealing odor.
Support a small plant.
The graphite in a pencil is a dry lubricant, so if you have a small motor, lock, latch, or other mechanical object that is stuck, rub the graphite all over it to loosen it up.

Other Crap

Clean out the junk in your keyboard cracks with the sticky end of a Post-It.
Use Post-Its as cable wraps for all the cords under the desk.
Be one of those creepy old people in a dark room full of decaying Asian home furnishings and antique radios that hordes every piece of garbage they’ve ever possessed.
Repeatedly stick and remove any form of tape to a laptop keyboard that has hand soil marks. It will slowly lift them without you scratching away at your hardware. (That’s what she said!)
Insulate something with mouse pads.
You can tie up just about anything with a computer cable.
Got a bunch of old computer pieces? Here are some examples of insanely cool computer art: http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/18/geeky-computer-part-art/
Use paper clips as Christmas ornament hooks, or as a zipper pull. Then go out to dinner at a fancy restaurant. Pop your collar while you’re at it.
Large pencil erasers are great door stops.
An old mouse or crappy computer speaker makes a good key hider.
An old iPod makes a swell cigarette case.
The circuit sheet from a keyboard can make a very snazzy wallet.
You can melt old crayons and make nice art that will look much like oil painting. Touch to flame, dab on paper. Touch to flame, dab on paper. Touch to flame, dab on paper. Touch to flame, dab on paper. Touch to flame…

Clearly you can find a use for anything if you try to. It’s certainly easier to throw everything away, but when you can have mildly tacky things all over the place that you created with would-be trash, people just may think you are the most clever Jenny on the block. You may even be able to fashion yourself something useful, which is the true spirit of DIY. Though most of the ideas on this list were small, they are all feasible. Try some out, put your innovative mind to work and see if you can’t transform some of that desk clutter into a more creative form of clutter.

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Table DIY – How to Fix a Wobbling Table with Wine Corks!

max — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:27:35 +0000

Here’s another one of those, “Why didn’t I think of this before?”

You can easily fix a wobbling table with sliced wine corks, which are perfect since they can really grab some friction while re-using them will be environmentally friendly too.

Tired of spilling coffee on your homework papers or laptop keyboard? Don’t waste perfectly good napkins to stop the wobble. Stick a few of these cork discs in your backpack or pocket and use them to steady that shaky table.

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Table DIY – How to Fix a Wobbling Table with Wine Corks!

Eco DIY – How to Make a Candle Lantern with Old Jars!

max — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:35:11 +0000

I personally own bunch of small jar-like candle holders that I’ve bought from IKEA at a dollar each. After seeing this eco DIY, I am having some regrets as I have many old jars laying around that I could have used to make this candle lantern that looks awfully awesome. Now, I wouldn’t hang it from anything but I can just let the candle jars sit on my dining table. It’d still look classy and nice.

During the summer I love to linger outside with friends as the day makes its slow fade into night. A bottle of wine, a few good nibbles, and flickering candlelight sets the mood for lots of gabbing and laughing. I have a big collection of votive holders leftover from our wedding, but I’ve been wanting to hang candle lanterns around our deck.

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Garden DIY – How to Make a Wine Bottle Moss Garden!

max — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:26:04 +0000

It seems that more and more people these days have decided to re-use, recycle, and re-make cool artistic objects. Today’s subject is on how to make a wine bottle moss garden using your empty wine bottles and moss collected from your nearest forest. I think this is a great idea as you can keep most of that moss contained in the wine bottle while the moss will keep growing nicely.

So I did my best to replicate her art using my own medium: wine. My five-year-old son and I went into the woods last fall and collected two kinds of moss. He made his own terrarium in a glass cookie jar; I made mine in a bottle of Domaine Tempier rose 2007, my favorite rose from last summer. Unlike most wine bottles, rose bottles are clear to show off the eye-popping color of the wine. This also makes them better terrariums!

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Garden DIY – How to Make a Wine Bottle Moss Garden!

Speaker DIY – How to Make Your Own Eco DIY Speakers!

max — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:35:49 +0000

Want to go green and also make your own set of cool eco-DIY speakers that use recycled materials? Well, UrbanOutfitters.com has these awesome eco DIY speaker kits you can get, they are well worth it for $18.

Design it yourself! With this eco-friendly kit, you can make speakers as original as your favorite playlist. Six colored pencils are included to get you started! Plug and play design and universal compatibility allow you to play music from whatever kind of system you want. Crafted by Merkury, these speakers are portable, fun and made with 70% recycled materials. Sounds good to us! Imported. Wipe clean.

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Speaker DIY – How to Make Your Own Eco DIY Speakers!

Boat DIY – How to Make a Boat With an Old Mattress (or Box Springs)!

max — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:08:06 +0000

For those of you who live in areas where flooding or even tsunami is quite possible, you might want to learn how to make a boat with an old mattress so you will always have something to float on when disaster strikes. I think this should really be titled, “box springs” as mattresses actually don’t come with wood in it. Of course, if you bought one of these high-tech box springs, you probably wouldn’t be able to make this boat.

Boy, these are the ideas that set geniuses from regular ol’ farts.

Make the “Katrina Granny”, an improvised boat by painting a mattress.
This boat is perfect to get from your house to high ground when the flood hits.
This truly is the fastest boat in the world. To build that is.
You can even use it for a mattress while waiting for the disaster to hit!

Next time you’re driving to the beach and you see a mattress and some paint cans dumped by the side of the road, you know what to do!

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Boat DIY – How to Make a Boat With an Old Mattress (or Box Springs)!

Wedding DIY – How to Make Recycled DIY Tin Can Numbers!

max — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:26:49 +0000

One of my best friends is getting married this weekend, here’s a cool wedding DIY that reminds me that a lot of stuff for wedding can be recycled, painted, drilled, and save lots of money including these recycled DIY tin can numbers.

Jillian came up with this super cute table number idea after dinner at a restaurant that had something similar on their tables. Such an excellent way to make cute, but inexpensive (and recycled!) numbers for your tables. Plus they glow and we all know that you positively cannot have too much candle light on a dinner table.

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It is not paper, party plates

David Allen — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:00:39 +0000

For anyone who has seen those designer bags that “I am not a plastic bag” well this has to be the party equivalent by for partyware as these plates and cups are made from melamine which is a material that recycled over and over again. This product is better than paper in so many ways, the most important being that this will not fold over and leave your food on the floor and they are okay in the dishwasher too.

Features:

Melamine plates are perfect for potlucks, picnics, birthdays, or just everyday use without the waste!

Dishwasher safe;

Not microwave safe.

Set of four plates.

Size: 9″ x 9″

90226089: Cups $12.95

90226087: Plates $16.95

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Garden DIY – How to Make a Bird House with Satellite Dish!

max — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:20:02 +0000

I have seen plenty old satellite dishes just waiting to get dumped, here’s a great way to re-use the dish for your neighbor birds as a bird house.

Have you ever wondered how many unused satellite dishes are floating around aimlessly out there? After being disconnected, they seem to have no apparent function other than occupying valuable storage space and being mostly ugly? The object of this exercise is to offer a simple way to make an environmentally friendly use of one of the thousands of satellite dishes that have found their way into the landfills, attics and garages of those who have had their service disconnected.

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Garden DIY – How to Make a Bird House with Satellite Dish!

Scottish DIY – How to Make a Bagpipe out of a Garbage Bag!

max — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:36:07 +0000

If you are hardcore Scottish, you might be interested to know that you can make a bag pipe out of a garbage bag, now you can afford to practice without paying for the real price.

This instructable is how to make a simple bagpipe like instrument out of basic household materials. Granted, it does not sound all too much like a bagpipe, but it works similarly and is fun to mess around with.

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Scottish DIY – How to Make a Bagpipe out of a Garbage Bag!

Fish Tank DIY – How to Make a CRT Aquarium!

max — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:10:58 +0000

Here’s a genius idea for your fish, an aquarium made out of on old CRT monitor! Instead of throwing those heavy bastards away, now you can recycle them into nice, stylish homes for your lovable fish.

Talk about a great screen saver! I’ve been wanting to do this build for a while now. Just about every time I see and old CRT computer monitor by the side of the road on trash day I think to myself …that would sure make a cool looking fish tank. So here is my first attempt at turning and old computer monitor into a fish tank.

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Coffee Table Aquarium

Telephone Booth Aquarium

Jelly Fish Aquarium

Infinity Coffee Table Aquarium

Giant DIY Aquarium

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Eco Friendly Hammock Made From Seatbelts!

max — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:58:57 +0000

Here’s a more brilliant idea for re-using and keeping our mother earth safer, an “eco” hammock made from recycled seatbelts! Now, this one will cost you $585 but I am already getting some good ideas on what to do with old seatbelts I bought at my local flea market…

Don’t need a hammock? Try these pillows made from recycled seatbelts!

Like TING pillows, made from reclaimed seatbelt webbing. Weather resistant. Rope & mounting hardware included. TING has always worked to produce the highest quality products with minimal environmental impact. This was Inghua Ting’s inspiration when she founded TING in 2000. Having worked designing innovative, technological fabrics, Inghua realized she was increasingly drawn to the possibilities of re-using existing but often ignored and overlooked materials in new ways. Motivated to re-use and recycle these materials and the challenge to produce attractive, practical bags; Inghua has succeeded in making luxury products that are sustainable, functional and uber-cool.

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Shred those documents

David Allen — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:00:13 +0000

We are all security conscious these days and yet we still leave documents around or simply throw them away, which sort of defeats the object. This is because unless the shredder is set and ready to go, it is not likely to be used, this is where the Easy Shred Scissors come in, they are perfect because there is no need for power and they can always be left in a handle place ready to use.

Product Features

Easy Shred ScissorsTM shred your documents!

Why pay $100 for an electric shredder?

Now it is easy to shred the entire document or just part of it, you are in control.

Works great dicing credit cards and statements

Less expensive tool to the electrical shredder

Dices your credit cards and statements

Metal

16 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 12 1/2″

Priced at $7.98

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Bike Hack – How to Make a USB Charger for your Bike!

max — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:50:18 +0000

If you are like me, you are probably very familiar with bike lights that use the power of the pedal to keep your eye-sight bright when riding at night. Well, here’s a great idea that uses that same power, except to power your USB gadgets such as iPod, iPhone, or whatever.

We initially theorized the development and feasibility of a regenerative braking system for use on bicycles. This system would create a mobile power source to extend the battery life of portable electronic devices carried by the rider.

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Bike Hack – How to Make a USB Charger for your Bike!

Eco DIY – How to Make a Laptop Stand with your Shipping Box!

max — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:43:37 +0000

When I buy new laptops, I usually save the box for the future but here’s how to make a laptop stand with it if you must.

Did I mention it’s super easy to make? I originally found this idea at Thingiverse.com, where Erik Skiff whipped up a pretty cool acrylic stand. I didn’t have any acrylic and more importantly I didn’t have a lazer cutter make the cuts, so I did it on cardboard. I modified the design a little so the pattern would fit on a regular letter sized sheet of paper.

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#EcoMonday – Fun Things You Can do with a Dumpster!

max — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:52:43 +0000

It’s #EcoMonday and here’s some fun things you can do with a dumpster including a dumpster swimming pool, garden, and ping pong table.

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Earth DIY – How to Make a 55 Gallon Plastic Barrel Chair!

max — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:00:29 +0000

You have to agree that more and more people are looking towards recycling, re-making, and using more sustainable materials for DIYs and this DIY is not an exception. Learn how to make a 55 gallon plastic barrel chair that looks cool enough for your colorful livingroom.

Today, we are going to make a surprisingly comfortable chair using only six small bolts, nuts and washers, six drywall screws, simple hand tools, a little ingenuity and a recycled 55-gallon plastic drum. Why? Well, that is a good question, partially because it is in our nature to make things, but mostly because I had a bunch of barrels that needed a purpose.

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Tin DIY – How to Re-Make Holiday Tins!

max — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:31:18 +0000

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For those of you with holiday tins stacked up in your garage, here’s a great way to re-make and rejuvenate your holiday cans into usable, colorful tins.

Tins are always great for storage. You can decoupage them with colorful paper to match your craft room or even with pictures of whatever you plan to store inside. Or, if you really like to plan ahead, you can decorate them for (gasp!) Valentine’s Day treats!

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DIY Waste Paper Basket Made From Waste Paper!

max — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:13:48 +0000

Why didn’t we think of this like a decade ago? It’s a waste paper basket made from waste paper! What a neat idea for recycling and re-making all that waste paper, especially think of having one of these next to a regular metal waste paper basket just for recycling waste paper.

Okay, you get the idea, I do a sorta-similar thing with paper bags I get from the grocery store and use them as recycle basket for recycleables.

Design by Studio CRANK

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Gift DIY – How to Make a Fruit Basket!

max — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:54:25 +0000

I am not buddhist but my girlfriend is and I had the chance to go to a Thai Temple here in SF Bay Area. Of course, you are supposed to give the monks a gift basket, filled with stuff they would need such as fruits, shaver, toothpaste, etc…etc…

Well, I just happened to see a cool DIY on how to make these cool fruit baskets out of newspaper, maybe I will make one for my girlfriend who can then give it to the monks and keep our karma happy.

Save your self some bucks and you can make fruit baskets without spending ten dollars at the grocery store or whatever.

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Home DIY – How to Make a Concrete Lightbulb Wall Hook!

max — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:04:52 +0000

here’s an awesome DIY that shows you how to make a concrete lightbulb wall hook that you can make from used lightbulbs and make your home looks even more stylish with greyed-out lightbulbs that can hold a lot of pounds.

I’ve been playing around, trying to make a concrete lightbulb. Why? Because I find the contrast of blending a new material like concrete in an everyday shape like a lightbulb to be a great design element. So while messing around with these guys, I realized this would be a great excuse to drive lag bolts into my wall for hooks. By embedding a lag bolt into the concrete lightbulb, I could make a wall hook that was useful enough to handle anything I wanted to hang off it. Thus this project was born.

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DIY Beer R2D2 Serves Beer!

max — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:26:36 +0000

Looks like someone overly zealous about Star Wars have made a cool DIY Beer R2D2. Now, this one uses a Heineken can but I am sure you can use the bigger version, like a real keg, to make a functional Beer R2D2. Anyone up for the challenge?

What is Beer2-D3 made from?

Beer2’s technical specs:
Head – 1945 chrome BLC utility light shell.
Eye - vintage movie camera lens w/adjustable spring-loaded aluminum casing.
Body – 4.7 liter “adult soda” mini-keg.
Legs – propane tank valve handles, brass spacers, drilled-out washers, pair of aluminum Lady Josephine shoe butler (wall-mounted shoe shine holders).
Feet/base – 3 mini bread loaf pans, lamp hardware and a 1/2″ precision drilled aluminum base plate.
+assorted nuts, bolts, screws and, of course – lockwashers!

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Home DIY – How to Save 10-25% Energy in your Home using VegaWatt!

max — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:40:32 +0000

Vegawatt is a new vegetable oil burning system that will recycle all your old vegetable into usable electrical power. I highly like this idea as it can possibly save up to 10-25% of your home’s energy. I just wish I had a house then I would definitely install this in my (future) garage.

If you are a homeowner, make sure to bookmark this page so you can get one of these when it’s available for order.

The Vegawatt™ is a supplemental system. We tie into the existing electricity and hot water systems and provide additional energy. Any energy provided by the Vegawatt™ does not need to be purchased from the local electric or gas utilities.

No, we can’t provide all the electricity and hot water needed to power a restaurant. Our goal is to capture the most energy possible from the oil that a foodservice location produces. Typically we produce 10% to 25% of the electricity needed by a restaurant.

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Dirt-Powered Alarm Clock!

max — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:51:09 +0000

We did see the dirt-powered soil lamp earlier, here’s another dirt-powered device, it’s an alarm clock that can be powered via dirt and you can even grow some nice fairway grass in it.

This the called the timeless garden and it runs mud or rather the chemical reaction between the mud and the metal casing inside the clock, how good is that it just doesn’t get any better than that for alarm clocks anyway. The actual body is made from two recycled plastic bottles.

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Shoe Hack – How to Turn your Old Work Boots/Dress Shoes into Slippers!

max — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:06:18 +0000

I own a bunch of old dress shoes that I want to throw away but I do have a lot of attached memories such as my first boots at my first job after college. Well, the answer is clear and you don’t have to throw them away!

Cut the back and use them as in-home “luxury” slippers. What a great idea, I am gonna do this today, you should too and send me pics of your new slippers to zedomax [at] gmail dot com.

step 1 materials
1.Old boots 2.Strong scissors or sharp knife 3.Glue

step 2 cutting the top of
Remove the laces.(on the photo i didn’t because i made this instructable after the shoes,on the pic are my newest boots.) I didn’t , but you could mark where you wanne cut.…

step 3 glue it together
Put the laces in and try to get a nice fit and tie the laces. They should fit perfect if you’ve worn them to work. Glue the watershield together so it won’t com loose anymo…

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Pump DIY – How to Make a Hydraulic Ram Pump!

max — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:58:25 +0000

I’ve installed water pumps, sump pumps, you name it. But the all work using our precious electric energy. Well, I have seen hydraulic pumps before that use no electricity and glad to say they may be the future alternative for exisiting electric pumps.

I am sure you can apply this hydraulic pump to various different applications including a water pump to add more water pressure to your gardening equipment and other pumping equipment.

I will have to head over to Home Depot and see if I can make my own high-pressure hydraulic super soaker.

This instructable shows how to build a fairly simple water pump that needs no energy input other than water flowing from a higher point to a lower point. Most of the pump is constructed from PVC, with a couple of bronze pieces thrown in for flavor. I was able to source all of the parts from a local hardware store (Lowes) for a bit under $100.

To function, the pump does require a reasonable amount of water that will drop at least 3′-5′. The level that the pump can raise water to depends on the water’s head (total drop the water will make).

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Bed Made From Recycled 747 Jet Liner!

max — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:46:13 +0000

Boy, if you are like me, you will want to get one of these awesome eco-beds made from recycled 747 jet liner. It is classy and perfect fit for any home.

Besides a circle bed, you can probably just use it as a guest couch too. Of course, it would be nice if you can choose which 747 jet liner to re-make.

Prices aren’t listed but I am guessing it’s going to be in the $1000-2000 range for this kind of modification, you can find out here.

Let our new 747 Jet Liner Bed take you “round the world”. Round beds were popular in the 60’s and are now making a comeback, as they are a refreshing alternative to the rectangular bed. Using an authentic 747 engine nacelle cowling as the headboard, MotoArt combines an 84″ diameter round mattress and box spring for a perfect fit. This well traveled engine nacelle makes a very comfortable headboard and arm rest combination. The nacelle headboard finish is complete with acrylic automotive paint, mirror polished leading nose ring and green Plexiglas end caps for internal structure viewing.

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Green DIY – How to Green Your Apartment!

max — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:43:30 +0000

As people are becoming more conscious about our environment, we need to make sure each and everyone of us do their part. Even if “greening” is not scientifically correct, it’s a great way to conserve whatever we have left on earth.

My advice is to make sure to recycle and let no food get leftover.

Here’s a couple more from Missy over at our green blog:

Use An Eco friendly Laundry Detergent
Most people do laundry weekly, so try to be selective with the detergent that you’re using. Make sure it’s all natural and bio-degradable so that it won’t harm you your family or the environment.

Use Energy Efficient Appliances
You can start by using CFL light bulbs. They consume less electricity and still provide perfect lighting for your home. These have really gone down in price, and are found in most stores now. Get some for every room in your home.

Conserve Water
Clean water is important for human survival and it requires plenty of natural resources and electricity to process. So turn off the water when it’s not in use (i.e. use a large bin filled with water when doing dishes) and use rainwater for the dehydrating your plants.

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Crafty DIY – How to Make Bowls from Old Magazines!

max — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:49:13 +0000

Here’s a really great way to save the environment, clean up any of your old magazine stashes, and also create a beautiful-looking bowl from your magazines that are gathering with dust anyways.

I saw these for sale at San Deigo Zoo on the summer holidays for like $20 and I decided I could make them instead so, I did! I bet that’s a typical thought for a crafty gal like us =]

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Shipping Container Homes Designed and Made!

max — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:21:38 +0000

I’ve seen a rise of homes made with used shipping containers and I have to say, this “was” a redneck practice that has turned into a great way for architects to develop new self-sustaining, green homes. Now, you will have to just buy a lot of acres of land and move your home (containers) to where ever you want to be.

The best examples that explain his creativity are the Bunny Lane, his own home built with a 19th century clapboard cottage inside an industrial hanger, and the Push Button House, which takes just 90 seconds to expand to reveal a five-room home.

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Eco DIY – How to Turn your Wine Corks into Placecard Holders!

max — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:25:05 +0000

Here’s an awesome idea for re-using your old wine corks into placecard holders. I can even see this being used for something else such as your business cards.

Simply cut a slit in your wine cork and cut the bottom off so it won’t move.

If you like, you can hot glue a magnet strip to the bottom of the cork placecard holder. If your table happens to be metal, this will keep it in place and weighted down. If not, you can slip an adhesive magnet under your table cloth to make sure it stays in place.

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Crackberry Hack – How to Green your Blackberry!

max — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:48:39 +0000

Blackberry is probably man (or woman)’s best friend, especially if you are always on the go.

Here’s a good blog post on how to “green” your blackberry:

1. Juice Up With The Solio Solar Charger
You can start by using the Solio solar charger to recharge your Blackberry as it will only take 30 minutes to fully recharge using this cool charger.

2. Get The iBerry Eco Today Theme
You can always remind yourself about the importance of preserving our environment with iBerry Eco Today Plus theme. Neat theme in earth friendly designs, this one is more for vanity purposes than anything else.

3. Donate, Hand Off, Trade, Or Swap Your Used Blackberry, Don’t Trash It
Last but not least, don’t throw your unwanted Blackberry into the trash bin. Consider donating it to charities or younger family members. You can also trade in your Blackberry at places like Swap Tree.

Get creative and you will have an eco friendly experience with your Blackberry.

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Recycled Computer Parts Jewelry!

max — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:09:36 +0000

Have a geeky girlfriend who enjoys more time tinkering with the solder and circuits than makeup? Well, even if your gf doesn’t, here’s some really stylish jewelry you can buy for her, all made from recycled computer parts. It reminds me of a movie with RFID tags that go on your neck… well, looks great though.

My art comes from tedious work. I do not purchase these pieces!!!! I rip apart used electronic devises in order to make my jewelry. Then cut different shapes from them. I spend many hours sanding and polishing them to the finished product you see below.

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Office Hack – How to Make a Pen Organizer with an Old Phone Book!

max — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:41:08 +0000

Here’s a fun hack for your desktop, learn how to make a pen organizer with your old phone book!

Who uses phone books these days anyways? (What a waste of trees)

I usually just toss all but one of them in the recycling bin, but this year I decided to try to upcycle one of them into something fun. I managed to turn one into a quirky and unique pen/pencil organizer that’s a real conversation piece on my desk!

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