Hot Eco-Friendly How-Tos
How To: Make an eco-friendly shopping bag
Learn how to make a green, eco-friendly grocery bag. This is a great fashionable way to cut down on paper or plastic bags. All you need is some pretty fabric and a sewing machine. Remember this bag the next time you are going shopping.
How To: Make hard drive wind chimes
Learn how to reuse a crashed hard drive or two for a set of wind chimes with this great tutorial. Easy to make and sound great. You will need a #6 and a #8 tork screwdriver, an exacto knife, a pair of needle nose pliers, a phillips and a flat screwdriver, red fishing line and an old hard drive.
How To: Make a placemat from yard waste
Learn how you can make placemats from materials from your garden that you usually would throw away with this how to video. This is a great eco-friendly way to decorate your table. Watch this tutorial and you can recycle your yard waste into beautiful placemats for your home.
How To: Manage storm water runoff with a homemade rain chain
Storm water runoff can cause damage to the foundation of your house as well as to the environment through soil erosion and water pollution. A great solution to this problem is a rain chain. This tutorial teaches you how to make and hang an unique rain chain from recycled material.
How To: Make a house more energy efficient and eco-friendly
This video home and garden tutorial explores the financial advantages of making your home energy efficient. Learn how to make an eco-friendly home that will help save money and the environment.
How To: Do worm wrangling or vermaculture
Do worm wrangling or vermaculture with tips from this how-to video. Learn tips on worm wrangling from Barb who is a certified master (warm) composter. This is a fun freshtopia video.
How To: Go green and eco-friendly with indoor house plants
Looking for a simple way to go green? How about some indoor house plants? Watch this video tutorial to learn how to make good plant choices for cleaner air inside your house.
How To: Make a quick leaf composter bin with chicken wire
Today we learn how to make a simple compost bin in this how to video. Simple is good here, so you can have more time to do other things. All you really need to start composting leaves from the garden is chicken wire and some wood.
How To: Save money on electricity bills
Everyone knows about the raise in natural gas prices. This how to video shows you can save money on your energy bill with these tips.
How To: Make a house more energy efficient
This how to video shows you some easy ways to make your home energy efficient. Save money on your energy bills with this great tutorial.
How To: Build a compost turner
In this how to video learn to build a compost turner using 100% salvaged materials. This tutorial is excellent for the beginning gardener. Start your own compost and grow great plants with this step by step video.
How To: Plant "Hens and Chicks" succulents
In this how to video you will learn how to plant and propagate a succulent called "Hens and Chicks". This tutorial is great for beginner gardeners and gives great gardening tips. Start your own garden today.
How To: Use a ceiling fan to warm a house in the winter
Did you know your ceiling fan can warm your home in the winter? This how to video reviews the little-known options and advantages that come with ceiling fans.
How To: Save energy by maintaining your air conditioner
Maintaining your air conditioning can take up some of your time, but once you get it done you an save a lot of money. This how to video demonstrates how to maintain your air conditioning unit for big energy savings. You wont only be saving your bank, but you will also be saving the environment.
How To: Make a Furoshiki Japanese grocery bag
Learn how to make a Furoshiki bag, a method used by the Japanese for centuries to carry just about anything you can imagine, from food, groceries, boxes, bottles... even watermelons. A very Eco-Friendly way to reduce waste. make your own Furoshiki Japanese grocery bag today! Makes an inexpensive homemade Christmas Gift. Make a Furoshiki Japanese grocery bag.
How To: Pest proof your yard naturally
Learn how to rid your backyard of annoying bugs without exposing your family to chemicals and toxins.
How To: Convert a regular toilet to a low flush
In this video learn how you can save money on water every time you flush the toilet by converting your toilet into a low flush toilet.
How To: Minimize plastic bag waste and use reusable bags
Paper Bags Are Better Than Plastic, Right?
How To: Remedy bug bites naturally and organically
Is that itchy bug bite bugging you? Watch this video on how to soothe bug bites using natural and organic remedies.
How To: Make and use wheat paste for wallpaper
For a natural alternative to wallpaper or poster glue, consider using wheat paste. This clear, permanent adhesive is used by artists and decorators and is simple to make.
How To: Get rid of mice the friendly way
The unexpected visit you get from a mouse probably makes your skin crawl, but you might not feel comfortable killing these unwanted guests. Learn easy and organic tricks for preventing, repelling, and removing mice from your home, the humane way.
How To: Weed eat your yard
Want to make your yard look as beautiful as a golf course? Weed eat the edges of your lawn to get a clean, crisp look.
How To: Remove and dispose an old carpet
Start living greener right away by following these easy steps on disposing old carpets.
How To: Make chicken marsala in a solar oven
Kevin Contreras makes chicken marsala in one of his favorite innovations, a solar oven, reminding us of yet another fun, easy yet great way to green our daily lives.
How To: Survive without air conditioning
No AC? Before you die of heatstroke, try these cool tricks. Use spicy food and wrist bands.
How To: Make your yard eco-friendly
Who wants to inhale pesticides when you flip burgers in the backyard? When creating an eco-friendly garden, it is fairly easy to avoid.
How To: Relocate a skunk
Check out this video to learn how to relocate a skunk without hurting it.
How To: Renovate your home to be eco-friendly
Get tips on how to make your home more eco-friendly, especially if you plan to renovate it.
How To: Make biodiesel
Learn how to make biodiesel. Maurice Vanegas is an executive for a private charter company. The biodiesel made is used in a fleet of transit buses, executive buses, and diesel trucks. The biodiesel comes from virgin soybean oil and used vegetable oil. Since July 2006, the company has produced in excess of 20,000 gallons.
How To: Harvest the sun with a homemade solar panel
Harvest the sun! This easy step-by-step tutorial will show you how to build your own solar heating/hot water system. Green energy is the wave of the future. Stop high oil and gas prices.
How To: Dispose of old cell phones and electronics properly
Tossing old computers and electronics in the trash is bad for the planet. Techno-Guru Lloyd gives a smarter alternative.
How To: Make a portable solar powered USB charger with Altoids
Check out this Greener Business Show video tutorial on how to make a portable solar powered USB charger with an LED flashlight inside an Altoids tin can. You will see in this episode how to modify a solar path light into the Altoids tin so that you can have a nifty LED flashlight and so you can charge your iPod or cell phone in the gleaming sunlight.
How To: Make a iPod dock from bamboo
In this week's GreenerBusiness Podcast, we show you how to find new purpose in an old one foot piece of bamboo and a CD case. Who wants wires cluttering their iPod area? No one. Use that bamboo for a dock! And see how many possibilities they are for a simple CD case to be more than a simple CD case.
How To: Make greencards (eco-friendly business cards)
In this episode of GreenerBusiness, we show you how to make seed-embedded environmental-friendly business cards, as seen on www.rccosmos.org/greencard.
How To: Make desks out of bamboo, bubble wrap, and cardboard
The design of our set is very simple and effective, so we wanted to take some time on this first episode to talk about how we made it. Hope you enjoy this episode and all future GreenerBusiness Podcasts.
How To: Make biodiesel fuel in a production setting
The Guys at Parley's Diesel Performance teamed up with Graydon Blair of Utah Biodiesel Supply show you the necessary ratios of oil, methanol and catalyst for Biodiesel production on a small and a large scale.
How To: Make organic cleaning supplies
Learn how to make homemade organic cleaning supplies and how to create a better library. In preparation for the up-coming gardening season, get a quick tip on bringing a little green into your nest.
How To: Build an Earthship home
See these videos on making an eco-friendly home. Earthships are a passive solar home made of natural and recycled materials. They are thermal mass construction for temperature stabilization. The renewable energy & integrated water systems make the Earthship an off-grid home with little to no utility bills.
How To: Store plastic bags in a homemade dispenser
Don't throw them away. Here's a way to store your plastic bags for later use in a homemade bag dispenser. Store plastic bags in a homemade dispenser.
How To: Heat your home for free
Here's a way to increase the heat in a cold room using nothing but the sun's energy! Heat your home for free.