Some companies are creating ways to make recycling textiles fun. The Huffington Post reports on some great ideas that can be copied and built upon. Recycling clothing reduces the amount of clothing that ends up in landfills and is one way you can minimize your environmental footprint. 11.1 million pounds of textiles are dumped into U.S. landfills every year. Some alternative possibilities [...]

As 2012 escapes us and we move forward into 2013, I look back at my personal green lifestyle over the year. Just instant reflecting tells me that I continued my normal lifestyle of being green without making drastic changes. Used Clothing: I did strive to shop all second-hand, but with being pregnant during most of the year, it was challenging. [...]

Hawaii was the first state to do it, San Francisco was the first city to do it and Los Angeles was the largest city to do it. They all banned plastic bags. Plastic bags are used and, apparently, so abused that they are becoming banned or taxed in cities and states throughout the United States, including Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Virginia [...]

Who says you need a canvas to display your art? For most people, an empty wine bottle, a wood pallet and a broken bicycle helmet are considered to be trash. But for a select few local artists, these unwanted items hold the inspiration and potential to be great works of repurposed art. For years, our culture has been molded into [...]

It’s a new season for the Living Green column. No, its not yet spring, even though it felt like it last week. This new season is bringing a new face to offer eco-insights for the Grand Strand, and I am lucky enough to be that new face – so, you might ask, who am I? Let me introduce myself. I’ve [...]

I once was told that recycling isn’t all there is to sustainability. Okay, while I agree, I have learned that recycling is a vital component to the success of sustainability, especially on a college campus. In February 2011, I started working back at my alma mater as their second sustainability coordinator. My background includes seven years of experience working at [...]

I have been playing with Twitter a lot recently and found it to be a wealth of information and randomness. While, searching through Followers and Tweets, I found an amazing green company that recycles something close to every woman’s heart, a bra. According to their current sponsoring company, Soma Intimates, bras are “the most needed and the least donated.” Of [...]