Solar lights are a great way to light up your garden. They are both inexpensive and eco-friendly, relying on solar power instead of electricity. In this short video, Mark Donovan of HomeAdditionPlus.com shows you how to set up solar lights.
Renewable fashion is a part of living a green and eco-friendly lifestyle. Instead of getting rid of old clothes and going out to buy something new, recycle things you don't like anymore into something you can use. This fashion how-to video shows a way of revamping a t-shirt into a hand, carry-it-all tote bag. Follow along with the steps and get started on a fun wardrobe recycling project.
Join Molly de Vries and pick up some new holiday tricks with a green conscience. She shows us how to make a festive fabric garland from attractive scraps, then shows a furoshiki fabric gift wrapping technique. Molly is a sustainable textiles maven and creator of Ambatalia "The Fabric Society." Learn how to wrap gifts the furoshiki method.
Share the joy of the holiday season with this great homemade Christmas gift from your kitchen. Crank up the Christmas music and invite the kids to come make some gingerbread family kits.
Compact fluorescent light bulbs, or CFLs, use about 75% less energy, give off 90% less heat, and last up to ten times longer than old-fashioned incandescents. Changing over is as easy as… well, screwing in a light bulb. This eco-friendly tip will save you some money & save electricity.
Happy Halloween! Learn how to put together a budget friendly, quick, and easy gypsy costume for Halloween! Hopefully this may help out as a "last resort" costume for some of you. Regardless, a gypsy makes a super cute and easy costume. Hope you all have a great Halloween!
Learn how to play Wyclef Jean's "Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)" on the ukulele with this free video lesson, which covers chords as well as strumming patterns. While this lesson assumes at least some chords knowledge, it's beginner friendly and easy to follow. For more information, and to get started playing Wyclef's "Sweetest Girl" on your own ukulele, take a look!
Water saving isn't just eco-friendly, it's economical. Gardens, pretty as they are, can be a big drain on your water supply. Watch this video home improvement tutorial and learn how to save water at home.
Watch this video tutorial to find out how to turn unwanted magazines into practical, creative drink coasters. These coasters last surprisingly long and are easy to make! This crafty project is eco-friendly, and reduces waste in your home. Check out this how-to video and find out a way to recycle old magazines into coasters.
In this video cooking lesson Angie uses a slow cooker to turn pork shoulder into tender taco meat. This cooking how-to video is part of Easy Meals, Good Deals show hosted by Angie Ketterman. Watch as Angie takes on the challenge to create 10 dishes that save you time and money. You'll love the results, quick and budget-friendly recipes. Try this inexpensive dish of slow cooker pork tacos.
Watch as Angie makes an inexpensive chicken corn chowder that feeds a crowd. This cooking how-to video is part of Easy Meals, Good Deals show hosted by Angie Ketterman. Follow along as she takes on the challenge to create dishes that save you time and money. You'll love the results quick and budget-friendly recipes. Make a hearty corn chowder for dinner tonight.
Is your Bosch oven on the blink? In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to replace a fan oven element in a typical Bosch cooker. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on the repair process, watch this friendly how-to.
Is your Cannon oven on the blink? In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to replace a fan oven element in a typical Cannon cooker. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on the repair process, watch this friendly how-to.
Zeitgeist is a German word that literally translates to something like "spirit of the times." In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to use Google Zeitgeist, which gives you a snapshot of what other people are searching for on the web. For a complete walkthrough, watch this friendly tutorial.
Here is the real answer to the question: Paper or plastic? Join your friendly neighbor for a fireside chat about plastic bags and how Americans consume 380 billion of them a year. If you don't need a bag, don't take one. You can use fabric bags and reuse them over and over again. You can also reuse plastic bags for trash can liners, doggy bags, etc.
You can save money and the environment by building a pet house out of eco-friendly materials. The doghouse in this how to video is built on the same green principles as a human home. Watch and learn how easy it is use recycled materials for your dog's house.
Learn how to create Use Case UML diagrams using with the user-friendly Altova UModel UML modeling tool. In this video tutorial, you'll explore some of the UModel diagramming features in a Use Case diagram.
Fans do a pretty good job of cooling you down in the summer but sometimes only an air conditioning can do the job right. In this tutorial, SuChin Pak and Daniel Sieberg demonstrate how to make a homemade air conditioning system with a fan, coil and ice water. Save the environment while staying cool in the summer with this DIY air conditioning.
The regular toilet is a huge waste of water, and those low flow toilets don't always get rid of your "business." The Keep it Green girls discover an eco-friendly way to discard human waste and create compost for your garden. Learn how to turn your waste into compost with the composting toilet.
Watch this instructional origami video to fold an origami Cicada. This friendly origami bug is a fairly easy origami project and only takes a few minutes to fold. While there are many versions of the traditional origami cicada, this model only misses it's signature buzzing noise to come to life.
Chef Desireé and the kids make sushi rolls out of rice, nori seaweed paper, crab, cucumber, cilantro, and avocado. This video cooking tutorial will teach you how to easily prepare sushi at home. It's so easy, and is even a kid-friendly cooking project.
Classy Craft Quickies are video tutorials for cards that can be made in 10 minutes or less. This step by step guide features a masculine themed birthday card. Watch this instructional video and learn how to make a man-friendly greeting or birthday card that can be sent to anyone wary of overly cutesy cards.
For too long the family refrigerator has had to endure a boring existence. Merely a place to store food and the occasional family photo, its place as an enduring destination for family entertainment has been overlooked for too long!
This tutorial video will teach you how to apply a face paint job in the design of a tiger. This face paint design is kid friendly and absolutely grrrrreat! Tony the tiger would be proud.
In this video tutorial, Scott Golightly shows how to create an ASP.NET HttpModule to “rewrite” the URL when a request for a web page comes in. You may want to rewrite URLs to create friendly URLs or to direct an old URL to a new URL. We will look at the code needed to implement URL rewriting and also how to handle page post back events.
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.
Now here's a bar of hand soap you can literally shake hands with. One things for certain; your house guests can't possibly miss it in the powder room. For heaven's sake! Why put out all those cutesy little guest soaps when you can put out a friendly, giant size hand?
Today's word is "amicable". This is an adjective which means friendly or peaceful.
Vamp it up for the holidays with this gorgeous party-friendly step-by-step look, created specifically for all of our glam friends by our one and only go-to-glamour-guy Hank Hoffman.
This dressing is so easy to make, just throw all the ingredients into a food processor and you're done! Try this creamy curry dressing on chicken or your favorite salad, it is eco friendly too.
Watch this video to learn how easy it is to clean your bathroom with natural eco-friendly ingredients. Use baking soda, vinegar and lemon to leave your bathroom squeaky clean.
Every wall switch and outlet on an outside wall is a hole in your wall. Here's how to insulate them while conserving energy and being eco-friendly.
Watch this video to learn how to make a posh pom-pom from an old sewing pattern. It's an easy & original embellishment for a package, and since it's made from a previously used item it's eco-friendly.
SEO specialist Aaron Wall demonstrates some on the page search engine optimization techniques that will help your site rank better in Google's search results. The key is to improve your site's SEO while keeping it user friendly.
Ryan and Thomas aged 13 and 9 demonstrate how easy it is to install an E85 ethanol FlexFuel conversion kit in to a vehicle. This converter kit is a Full Flex Gold and will allow the car to run on E85, Gas, or any mixture of the two. Full Flex Gold is the only EPA compliant kit available and makes your car more fuel efficient and environment friendly.
Lars discusses an organic fire ant control method developed at Texas A&M university. Lars stresses on the safety and environmentally friendly factors these products practice.
For a friendly mobile game, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has an overwhelming number of items and collectibles — from fruit to fish to friends. Even though it can be difficult to keep up, this guide will be a great stepping stone to creating the campsite of your dreams without spending a dime.
Do you love music and need a little extra cash? Do you think you have a knack for entertaining others with your rockin' playlists? Check out this video and learn how to turn that musical mind into a career as a wedding DJ. The most memorable part of the wedding reception is the music and dancing and you could be a part of it! Follow these steps and have people complimenting you on your awesome tunes as they leave the reception.
This CAD software tutorial covers how to make face based families, change a family category, and make voids in Revit Architecture. Face based families are pretty handy for a few reasons. a big one though is that they do delete when you erase the host object (this is not the case with wall based and floor based) families. Also face based families are easy to move around, re-host and rotate. See how to create and work with face based families in this Revit Architecture tutorial. Create and use ...
The iTunes App Store makes it easy to buy an app or game on someone else's behalf, and it's a great way to send an iPhone user a thoughtful gift. The Google Play Store doesn't have such functionality, but there are still a few workarounds to accomplish the same goal: gifting an app to an Android user.
