leaves

Did you know that every year we throw away 24 million tons of leaves and grass. 75% of our waste in the fall is leaves.

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Random green tip #11

When printing things(hopefully on scratch paper or double sided), there is a setting(I'm not sure if it's on macs) where you you can use less ink on your printing. It can be found under properties. You can also use ecofont, which I don't think microsoft word has, but if you just type ecofont into the font drop-down menu thing it lets you use it.
Happy earth day!

Amazing recycled craft

I was immediately struck by the awesomeness in this tutorial for recycled wall art. I loved how not only does it recycle paper towel tubes, but it looks amazing!
On a different subject, we have not been posting very much lately, and I thought it might be good to have specific series for specific days of the week. Like we could feature green etsy sellers(or something), and we did have random green tips which could be Thursday, and scary green facts which could be Monday. Just an idea, and so I guess I'll be back here on Thursday with a random green tip!

empty spools

So, I do a lot of sewing. Which means a lot of thread. Which means a lot of empty spools. And I am known for my upcycling habit at school, so our science teacher sometimes gives me particularly interesting pieces of "garbage" that she knows I'll be able to use for something. So she gave me her empty spools.
So now I have a lot of empty spools that keep staring at me, telling me to do something with them. Actually it is me that is doing the staring at them, and nobody is actually telling anybody to do anything, and I could probably go on for another couple paragraphs about how I have so many spools that can't talk while making this sentence the most run on sentence in the history of run on sentences, but I would love to get back to crocheting plastic bags while reading because I was recently given a whole new bag of blue newspaper bags, so I shall get to the point.
Actually there are two points:
1. see if you can guess how many spools there are. please comment and tell me your guess.
2. does anybody have any ideas of what to do with the spools? please comment about that too.
Thank you everybody!

100th post!!!!!!!!!

Hey Everybody!

This is our 100th post!!!!!!!!!!!!

To commemorate the fact that it is our 100th, T.Y. and I decided to make another video tutorial about how to make something green. We made a tutorial for how to make a juice pouch bag. Everything was going all good untill I tried to upload the video to blogger. I tried over and over again to upload the video but it would just not work. I tried everything I could think of, but the video refused to upload.

So anyway, now we didn't have a 100th post that was particuarly different from the usual. But then, at our wizard of oz cast party, we were on a dock looking into lake washington, and in the water, just sitting there like it belonged, was a beer can. And so, Andrea had an idea: we take pictures of trash around our city and that could be our 100th post. Then I had the idea to also take pictures of things in our city that is particularly green.

And so, I bring you a few highs and lows of green-ness in Seattle.

T.Y. and I made a video tutorial (I'm not telling what it's about!), but it is absolutely refusing to be uploaded. I'll keep trying! I just thought I'd tell you why our 100th post is taking so long.
First of all, this is our 99th post. Yay!
Secondly, our Spanish teacher was spotted using a pen similar to this one!!!!! It had red instead of green, and sported someone else's logo(as in not the cascade land conservancy). When questioned, she stated that it had been left in her room. Muy interesante...(insert chin stroke here--it would be better if it were me stroking my beard, but as I am the wrong gender for those(girls go green), a stroke of the chin will have to suffice). Anyway, yay to la maestra de espanol(does anybody know how to do the n squiggle on blogger???) and to whichever company was using that kind of pen to print their logo on, and to whomever left the pen in the Spanish room.

Thirdly, the week after next is "play week" where we will all go down to the theater to finalize our play! The play is the wizard of oz. We're doing it '80's themed: like hair and costumes. And this has to do with greenness because? Oh yeah, a lot of the costumes are recycled. The plaid for Dorothy's costume out of little squares of fused blue and white plastic bags(I made it actually), and the lion's mane is lots of pieces of fabric and the for the scarecrow, instead of straw, newspaper is being used.
So that's pretty much all the interesting little green stuff that I can think of!

Ink cartridges

did you know that you can recycle ink cartridges? I didn't!!! So now instead of throwing them out you can recycle them!!!