Sayward Rebhal

The Internet is rife with homemade “green” cleaning recipes that seek to minimize toxic chemical exposure while saving money and maximizing environmental stewardship. Which...

Do your parents still have the game closet? Or maybe, now you’re the parents, and you have your own game closet. Either way, can I dig through it? I love looking at people’s...

There is this now-almost-infamous picture floating around the internet, featuring a CD spindle (you know, those plastic domes that hold stacks of blank CDs), repurposed to hold a bagel...

I’m slowly making the switch over to energy-saving compact fluorescent lamps (which last, I think, roughly 800 years), replacing each incandescent bulb as it expires. Every time...

I recently upgraded to a “grown-up” wallet, and as I was cleaning out the old one, I was struck by the amount of plastic I’d acquired. Old credit cards, an expired...

There’s a tube at the center of every roll of toilet paper. And there are many, many rolls of toilet paper. Every bathroom, every home, every business, every plumber, millions...

I haven’t used a phone book in years. Years! I can hardly even remember life before Google. A while back I tried to opt out of my phone book delivery service, but that enormous...

I can’t even remember the last time I bought a candle holder. Actually, I don’t know that I’ve ever bought a candle holder, come to think of it. And why would I? No...

I recently moved away from the progressive playground of Portland, Oregon, which among other things, is a city at the center of the “creative repurposing” trend. Strolling...

I may own an iPhone, but that doesn’t mean I’m not still a hippie at heart. I am! I love my pretty piece of uber-advanced modern technology, but I’m still all about...