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Fixin' to be Green
http://fixintobegreen.blogspot.com
You don't know it yet but you're a superhero! You can save the planet -- and the green in your wallet! You are The Fixer.
With your trusty array of tools and your brain, you can use your powers to bring new life to old, broken things and stem the flood of waste. You can repurpose and reuse!
Are you ready to don your cape and goofy tights?
- Added on: Jun 12th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Michael Shimniok
- Listed in: Green Travel
- Tags: repair electronics DIY green reuse repurpose
Recent Posts
Lamp Repair
Lamp stopped working? Knob popped off and can't secure it again? What piece of junk, right? But not the kinda junk you toss, the kind you fix. One of our floor lamps had a socket that went bad right after the knob cracked and fell off. But it's a...
Organize by Reusing Containers
Here's another Fixit Fundamental. You can reuse (hoard?) containers to help you fix other stuff. So you're repurposing some things while helping you do a better job of keeping other stuff out of the landfill. Wild!I always seem to have several repai...
Squeezing more life out of that PC
I say you can get up to 10 years of useful life out of a computer!I know. You think I'm nuts. Or a luddite. A 30+ year computer geek regularly using a Mac G4 450MHz tower and a Compaq 1.5GHz Pentium 4 tower in the year 2009?!They still work for me ...
Laptop LCD Screen Repair
You can get more use out of a laptop with a broken LCD. Here's how.I recently got an old, broken laptop from a nice fellow off of Craigslist. Fortunately he'd just kept it around instead of throwing it away (too many toxins in electronics equipment ...
Fixing a heat gun better than before
This heat gun was destined for disaster! Followed by a simple fix; I'm not a huge fan of fixes that require machinist skills. Partly because I don't have the skills or equipment but, also, I'd rather share simple fixes that anyone can implement so th...
Stock up fasteners!
Here's a tip I learned from Dad that's really helped me out. Hoard fasteners and oddball plastic and rubber things that may be useful some day. :)Stock up lots of fasteners! When you don't have to always go to the hardware store to fix something, i...
