Welcome to the November 9, 2009 edition of tips for green living. We have some great submissions that I hope you’ll enjoy! for the newbies Condo Blues gives us 8 Steps to Reducing Household Trash posted at Condo Blues. Chris presents Green homes explained posted at Home I Own. While a little out of our usual prospect, I did find [...]

Once upon an early-90s jingle, kids were taught to “Reduce, reuse, recycle and don’t pollute!” by a singing cartoon. It was cute and kind of clever, but it may not have quite hit the message home. What that catchy tune didn’t explain was the importance of doing things in that order – reduce, reuse and then recycle.

But why that order?

In this series, “Back to Basics”, I am covering the essentials of “going green” by focusing on the basic principles of green living. First in the series was Reduce and today we will cover Reuse, or as I like to call it, repurposing! The very point of reusing items to take a once useful item and use it again to [...]