Hiking Vacation

Ever thought about a hiking vacation?

This fabulous site helps you plan a hike along the Pacific Coast Trail, which goes from Mexico to canada along the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

http://www.pctplanner.com

Recycling plastic bags - small things

I watched a friend of mine's dogs for a few days, and she provided their food rationed out in plastic ziplock bags. When It was her turn to watch my dog, I reused those baggies to provide my dog's food.

Use the heat from your dryer to heat your house

Why waste all that energy you're using to dry your clothes? Divert the hot air from your dryer into your house with an inexpensive and simple to install diverter.




http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004YWK2?tag=tidbandstuf-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B00004YWK2&adid=02NKFDYR76ERR0BAQ4CE&

Plant a Row for the hungry

http://www.gardenwriters.org/Par/

Shade-grown coffee

keeps rainforests from being torn down to grow coffee unsustainably.
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more info here: http://www.shadecoffee.org/shadecoffee/

Mercury thermometers and medicine disopsal

if you're in the SF Bay area, go to this site to find out what to do with your old medicines and mercury thermometers... http://baywise.org/

Hydroponic Garden Pots

These great pots use a soil-less potting medium and feed the plants hydroponically, allowing the roots to gather nutrients without using a lot of soil to do so, and allowing the gardener to grown a large amount of plants and veggies in a small space.

http://www.cleanairgardening.com/hydroponic.html

send your #5 plastics here...

http://www.recycline.com/

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

the US government's energy laboratory site, there some interesting info here...

http://www.nrel.gov/

Recycled glass products

Based in Seattle, WA this place takes your old glass and makes cool glass tiles, tumbled glass, and art glass.

http://www.bedrockindustries.com/