Reduce, Reuse + Refashion. Recycle and Repurpose your old Jeans. Save and repurpose materials to make bags of all sorts, for every occasion. It's in the 'bag'. The next time you are asked “paper or plastic?”at the local supermarket. Say “neither, we make and bring our own." 
Instead of buying in seedlings, we wanted to get an early season start with our favorite vegetables. We created a seedling raiser that was simple to move around, light and compact for storage and was efficient to allow plenty of sunlight whilst keeping the seedlings safe from the wind. The end result was a brilliant contraption that worked a treat.
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This is simple to make. Made from two cardboard boxes (or even timber), some clear plastic wrap, and a little tape and you can build an inexpensive solar dehydrator. A functional food preservation machine that can be created for little work and little money.
Using the illustration as a guide, use a long thin cardboard box for the collector and a taller cardboard box to be used for drying.
When it comes down to it, do-it-yourself cleaning using Grandma's tried-and-true kitchen cupboard ingredients is still the best green practice. Simple, successful and natural. Anecdotal evidence indicates that our Granny was a lot wiser with our environment than we think. 
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