reduce/reuse - a list by theloushe

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Small, easy ways to reduce waste in your home and continue to shrink your carbon footprint. Featuring several suggestions for simplifying your home, and a collection of reusable products.

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Haba Basket Oompa Toys Baby Toys & Wooden Toys

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Let's get back to basics: fewer, better toys. Sturdy, long-lasting kids' toys that are open-ended enough to be enjoyed in a variety of different ways, over years and years and years. These toys foster imagination and allow kids to make up their own scripts instead of coming with previously-existing ideas of what Dora should look like or what Nemo should say. They won't play annoying tunes that jangle adult brains. They won't tell girls to be focused on their fingernails, they won't tell boys to be warmongering anti-domestics. They won't suck money out of your wallet for batteries, and they won't put those same batteries into landfills.

Haba is one of my favorite companies for this - I love their colorful wooden fruits and veggies as well as their many, many other beautiful and kid-appropriate toys. They give kids the basics - simple shapes, unit blocks - and trust the kids to know what to do with them.

Updated Feb 11, 2007

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Heavy Duty XL Hemp Tote

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Paper or plastic? The EPA says NEITHER! Both consume energy and generate waste. Instead, bring reusable bags like this roomy and sturdy hemp tote to the grocery store, dry cleaner, bookstore, mall, and wherever else you go. Just say "no, thanks, I don't need a bag, I brought one of my own."

Looking for a cheaper option? Hunt for canvas totes at garage sales and thrift stores - I once found 5 for $1 and still use them for my groceries.

Updated Feb 11, 2007

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Casa Stripe Dishtowels

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Who needs paper towels? Stock your kitchen with plenty of colorful, absorbent cotton towels and you'll always have something to dry dishes, wipe hands, and clean up spills. You won't be filling up your trash can, and as time goes by, you won't be emptying your wallet to buy disposable towels, either.

You don't have to stop at towels. Reusable cotton dish cloths, wipes for kids' hands and faces, and cloth napkins are other easy ways to reduce waste in your home. Hunt down paper products in your home and think of ways to replace them with washable and reusable items instead.

Updated Feb 11, 2007

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The DivaCup

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The Diva Cup is 100% silicone - hypoallergenic, odorless, and REUSABLE. It's more comfortable than a tampon and better for your health than either tampons or pads. Reusable menstrual cups reduce your carbon footprint by producing less menstrual-product-related waste. They also reduce wasted money - one cup can be used for years.

I once thought that menstrual cups were gross, now I can't believe that it took me so long to try one. I'll never go back to tampons or pads.

Updated Feb 11, 2007

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Country Compost Crock

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Two great ways to reduce your carbon footprint:

1. COMPOST kitchen scraps. You'd be amazed at how much your household waste can be reduced, and how much better your trash can smells when you take all the veggie peels, leftover food, coffee grounds, even bits of paper, and compost them. While they're waiting to go outside to the composter, store them in a crock like this one from Gardener's Supply.

2. Use that compost to fertilize your own VICTORY GARDEN! It's about time we revived this wartime tradition to use our resources more wisely and work toward victory over global warming. Buying locally is smart, and what could be more local than your own back yard?

Updated Feb 11, 2007

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Heinz White Vinegar

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White vinegar is always in my cabinet, and I always need it at the most random time. Say, if I'm inspired by something to make a new dish. Or if I decide I want to make collard greens. Or for cleaning. Its also something I use as a salt substitute when cooking. (via BuytheCase.net)

Updated Aug 23, 2008

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Fuzzi Bunz : Cloth Diapers in a variety of colors!

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These aren't your mother's cloth diapers. Fuzzibunz are trim, colorful, easy for anybody to use, and designed to keep wetness away from your baby's skin. If you thought cloth diapers were all about soggy prefolds, pins, and bulky rubber pants, it's time to give the cloth diapering world another look. Give them a google. :)

Reusable cloth diapers are economical - over the course of your baby's diaper days, you'll spend less on diapers. If you use them for a future child, the savings is even greater. Cloth diapers are also environmentally sound, both reducing the amount of waste put into landfills and also actually using less water for washing than is used in the production of disposable diapers.

Updated Feb 11, 2007

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Ecobags

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Reduce your dependence on petroleum products! Do you *really* need to use plastic produce bags at the grocery store? See how many items you can purchase without bags, and for the rest, tuck them into cotton mesh produce bags like these, from Ecobags.

Updated Feb 11, 2007

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SIGG Sportbottle

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Okay, so I'm a little bit eco-centric and a whole lot rock 'n roll. This water bottle, extruded from a single piece of aluminum, completely reusable and recyclable, interior lining is 100% effective against leaching and combats residue build-up, so it is easy to clean and ensures that all you taste is your water (wink, wink), even after its been sitting in the Sun.

Updated Apr 24, 2008

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