For many of us, travel is a fact of life during the holidays, and with a bit of planning, you can make sure your holiday travel plans are a little bit better for the planet. Over at Earth and Industry, Tim wrote about a couple of airlines that are starting to use algae-based biofuels in their planes .

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How to Green Your Holiday Travel

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Footwear is one of those areas where I have a hard time.

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Don’t Replace! Repair Old Shoes to Save Resources and Cash

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We talked on Wednesday about how to put the indie into your Independence Day celebration , but what about making this Fourth of July a cruelty free celebration, too?

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Vegan Recipes for the Fourth of July

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Tin cans make for great storage, and with some crafty love they can be cute to boot! How adorable are these painted cans from This Home Sweet Home ? What a cute way to divert some waste from the landfill and boost your crafty storage at the same time

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Craft Recycled: Tin Cans Upcycled for Storage

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We’ve talked here before about the scourge of single-use plastic , so you can imagine how it warmed my heart to run across this video, where kids are taking plastic bottles and upcycling them into building materials: 1800 children in Guatemala collected 2.5 tons of trash and over 10,000 plastic bottles and used them to help build a school for themselves.

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Building a School from Plastic Bottles

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Earth Day is here! Let’s get crafty to celebrate! Of course, we should really treat every day like Earth Day, but I do get excited about a whole day to raise awareness about the importance of protecting our environment.

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Happy Earth Day! Three Recycled Craft Project Videos [slideshow]

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Committed green warriors pride themselves on limiting their negative impact on the environment, but they often forget about the damage that power-hungry laptop PCs can do to the Earth. We all use computers daily and those machines tend to suck up a lot of juice.

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3 Amazing Eco Laptops

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It’s not breaking news that our plastic bottle consumption is out of control .  It’s estimated that in the US, we consume roughly 25 billion plastic bottles a year!  It’s all a bit disheartening, but thankfully recycling is at an all time high, and there are some great companies doing some great things to reduce the amount of waste pouring into our landfills.  I was psyched to find one of those companies right down the road from me

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EARTHTEC: Green Outerwear From Plastic Bottles

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Confession time: My husband and I are addicted to Earth Fare . We don’t have any here in Atlanta, so when we travel to neighboring states, it’s hard to resist visiting for some great food and pick up some of our favorite treats, like their vegan chicken salad.

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Sustainable Packaging: Boxed Groceries

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Photo credits (clockwise from top left): beautiful world by purplepixie ;  Nature’s Humor by DarkFireLotus ; Green house effect by inmc ; Climate change on canvas by Ashley Cecil ; Off Shore Eco Farm I by MG Williams Global climate change is the largest threat to sustaining life on Earth, but despite overwhelming evidence – species extinction, dwindling water supplies, mass migrations and mega-storms — some of us are still unclear what climate really means for us. The CoolClimate online art contest will be exploring climate change in its many forms and invites artists worldwide to participate

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The CoolClimate Art Contest: call for entries

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