Green Living

Egg cartons, whether cardboard, plastic or Styrofoam, can be reused for lots of projects in your home or garden. Here are 10 eggs-citing ones to try.

By Alia Hoyt

Many everyday items, like salt, toothpaste, Magic Erasers, baking soda and vinegar can help you with your spring cleaning in lots of ways.

By Alia Hoyt

Wondering what to do with those plastic pill bottles your prescriptions come in? Here are 15 great ways to reuse them and keep them out of the landfill.

By Jesslyn Shields

Those bread tags (aka bag clips) and twist ties you find on baked goods can be recycled in many ingenious ways. Here are 15 of them.

By Alia Hoyt

The average tennis ball lasts just a few hours to a few weeks of play. So, before you toss it in the trash, try to recycle it with one of these amazing hacks.

By Alia Hoyt

The millions of plastic containers and bottles out there don't all have to end up in landfills. There are lots of ways to give them a second life.

By Melanie Radzicki McManus

Modal fabric is a type of synthetic rayon. It has a reputation for being greener than other fabrics, but is it really?

By Madison Palmer

Don't trash your paper towel, toilet paper and wrapping paper tubes. Give them a second life with one of these 10 hacks instead.

By Madison Palmer

In addition to its role in cooking, coconut oil has a ton of uses in health and beauty. We highlight 10 of them.

By Alia Hoyt

Love the look of leather but want a more sustainable option? Then consider PU leather. It's 100 percent vegan, but does it hold up to genuine leather?

By Madison Palmer

There are lots of inventive uses for old coffee grounds, including candle-making, bug prevention and de-icing roads.

By Melanie Radzicki McManus

On hot summer days, is it best to turn off the AC when leaving home, turn it up or leave it as is? The answer may surprise you.

By Alia Hoyt

If you drink a lot of tea, you probably throw out a lot of used tea bags. But there are dozens of surprising things you can do with them instead, both in your home and your garden.

By Alia Hoyt

We've all become hyperaware of the importance of toilet paper during our lives in the world of COVID-19. But there are some Earth-friendly options that exist as well. Have you tried them?

By Kristen Hall-Geisler

We all know vinegar is often used in cooking and making salad dressings. But it has a ton of other uses in cleaning, beauty, insect control and more!

By Melanie Radzicki McManus

The bane of every gardener's existence, weeds can easily and safely be controlled with non-toxic ingredients that you find around the house.

By Katie Carman

You may know that baking soda can be used to clean stuff and to make toothpaste, but we've rounded up 13 creatives uses for the product, many of which might be new to you.

By Alia Hoyt

Biophilia is the idea that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature, and it can help us to transform the way we live.

By Maria C. Hunt

Come inside to see why the tiny house movement is big business.

There are things we consciously recycle, such as used clothing, and there are things we toss without a second thought, like foil and rubber bands. But the latter have uses you may never have dreamed of.

By Dave Roos

Lighten your load by handing off these age-appropriate chores to your kids.

By Tanya Edwards

Epsom salts have amazing health benefits. They're good for relaxing baths, face scrubs and a hair volumizer. We'll give you more ways to use Epsom salt in your daily routine.

By Care2.com Contributor

I've been thinking about extra shampoo ever since I sent a box of random bars of hotel soap and shampoo bottles to Clean the World, a smart and admirable non-profit that sends unused soap and shampoo to people at risk of acute infection and disease due to lack of soap.

By Melissa Breyer

Don't kill spiders and instead keep them around your house. Find out why you shouldn't kill spiders.

By Josh Peterson, Planet Green

Hate flies? Keep them away with these herbs. Learn more about these seven herbs that deter flies naturally.

By Marye Audet, Planet Green