Updates, Changes, and Fixes

Updates

New content is soon to come! I took some time off posting to work on publicizing my current content and blog as a whole. There will be new content posted later today or tomorrow at the very latest.

Changes

Before I had pages worth of content, jump breaks were pointless. Reduce, REUSE, Recycle has grown enough that I went through and added jump breaks to all of the longer posts. For those that noticed: Yes, some of the posts have been slightly altered. For those that didn't notice: You don't have to go back to read anything. No new content was added. I just changed some of the introductions so that they better summarize the post.

Fixes

Recent Comments is back and with a new look!

Shipping Pallet Projects

Used wooden shipping pallets can be reused with some simple modifications or be disassembled and reused in place of buying new wood. The YouTube video Pallet Garden shows how easy it is to create a planter from a shipping pallet, How To Dismantle A Wooden Pallet - Savvas Papasavva demonstrates how to take a pallet apart, Long Bench! shows how to make a bench from pallets and a little supplemental wood, and How to Build a Coffee Table out of Pallet Wood: Project 5 Paint/Distress/Antique Furniture shows how to build a beautiful coffee table from wood reclaimed from shipping pallets.

Poll: Do you reuse?

See that poll over there on the right near the top of the page? It needs your vote. Voting is just a couple quick and easy clicks then, if you care to share, comment on this post, submit a project, or submit your story!

Paper Projects: Shredded Paper, Newspaper Bags, and Magazine Coasters

Have a bunch of junk mail, office paper, newspaper, magazines, etc. lying around? Don't throw them away. Instead put it to use with these easy YouTube videos: Unique Ideas for Reusing Paper, Reuse Paper. Reduce Plastic (how to make recycle bag from newspaper), and Magazine Coasters Tutorial.

Deforestation: Problems and Solutions

Photo courtesy of National Geographic.

Deforestation. Merriam-Webster defines it as both "the action or process of clearing of forests" and "the state of having been cleared of forests. Forests are important; and, unfortunately, deforestation is a problem of the here and now. National Geographic has a lot of scary things to say about deforestation. First, how much forest do we have globally? It's common knowledge that about 30% of the Earth is land. An article by National Geographic says that 30% of that 30% is covered in forests. That means a mere 9% of the Earth is covered in forests. The article goes on to say that "swaths the size of Panama are lost each and every year" and that "the world's rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation." Just how big is Panama? According to Britannica: Academic Edition, the area of Panama is 28,640 square miles or 74,177 square kilometers. That's a lot of forest being destroyed in a year.