Reducing your consumption of single-use plastics? Some states have passed legislation banning single-use plastic bags at stores. California led the charge in 2014, and to date, nearly eight states ...

If you’re focused on sustainability and/or zero waste, you probably cringe every time you return home from the grocery store and pull out bag after bag of fruits and vegetables, each tucked inside ...

Easy sew reusable cloth bags made by Marjie Ducey. Easy sew reusable cloth bags made by Marjie Ducey. We’re all encouraged to use cloth bags instead of the plastic variety, and this lined tote is easy ...

Remember the classic brown paper lunch bag? You can learn to sew a reusable lunch sack modeled after it at Algiers Regional Library at 11 a.m. on May 16. Join an instructor from ricRACK, a local ...

Easy Answer: There are hundreds of ways. Most of them involve sewing. Reusable bags are big business these days; nearly every store will sell you a bag for a buck or two…or more. But you don’t have to ...

I love to wrap presents, but every year when I see the pile of used paper (especially tissue) in the middle of the living room after Christmas presents are opened, I feel a little guilty about the ...

Don’t know what to do with your old, tattered blue jeans? Linda Haumann and Martha Runco may be able to help. The Marinwood residents, who live down the street from each other on Idylberry Road and ...