Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21

June 21st, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)closeAuthor: Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin) Name: Thomas Korthuis
Email: thomas@move2create.com
Site: http://www.move2create.com
About: I was born in The Netherlands in 1982 and now reside in Orlando, FL, USA. I do web, graphics and audio/video design. I believe that you can bring change through little and big steps. Big steps for those that like change, little steps for those that don't. Ecotipsforlife.com is not only meant to become a useful reference but also catalogs my own personal journey toward becoming more environ-mind(ed)See Authors Posts (28)

• http://twitpic.com/7hhk1 – I was away for 2 weeks, when I came back there was some substantial growth to say the least… #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21

June 21st, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)closeAuthor: Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin) Name: Thomas Korthuis
Email: thomas@move2create.com
Site: http://www.move2create.com
About: I was born in The Netherlands in 1982 and now reside in Orlando, FL, USA. I do web, graphics and audio/video design. I believe that you can bring change through little and big steps. Big steps for those that like change, little steps for those that don't. Ecotipsforlife.com is not only meant to become a useful reference but also catalogs my own personal journey toward becoming more environ-mind(ed)See Authors Posts (28)

• http://twitpic.com/7hhk1 – I was away for 2 weeks, when I came back there was some substantial growth to say the least… #

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Tip #19: Composting on the (c)heap

June 18th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)closeAuthor: Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin) Name: Thomas Korthuis
Email: thomas@move2create.com
Site: http://www.move2create.com
About: I was born in The Netherlands in 1982 and now reside in Orlando, FL, USA. I do web, graphics and audio/video design. I believe that you can bring change through little and big steps. Big steps for those that like change, little steps for those that don't. Ecotipsforlife.com is not only meant to become a useful reference but also catalogs my own personal journey toward becoming more environ-mind(ed)See Authors Posts (28)

Budget: around $30
Time required: 1-3 hours
Estimated impact: Rich fertile compost for your garden, porch or patio, can’t beat that…

Tip: For some time we have had a very small temporary compost bin made from an old 10 gallon trash can. As you can image this filled up within a very short period of time. Outside being small it also did not really provide a good environment to compost, so I found myself scouring sites looking at compost tumblers mainly because a compost pile would not work in our yard.

After seeing many types ranging from $150 to upwards opf $300 I decided to look for “diy compost tumbler” and “diy compost bin” and came across allot of posts of people making composters from cheap materials and two specific site caught my attention: http://www.instructables.com/id/Compost-Tumbler/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn_5HRgiftg. One is a composter made from an old barrel the other how to make a rain barrel from an old cheap trash can.

So I decided to combine them and create a compost tumbler from a cheap $13 trash can, some pvc piping and a wood frame to hold the compost tumbler. I’ll post the pictures of the result on Twitter.

It works great for our needs and it only costs about $30 to make. Also I found this site later on of someone doing the same thing only without a frame. He just mixes the compost by rolling the trash can over the yard.

So if you would like to start composting, I suggest you google things like “diy compost tumbler” and “diy compost bin” or checkout any of the links above and start your own compost project. Happy composting.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31

May 31st, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)closeAuthor: Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin) Name: Thomas Korthuis
Email: thomas@move2create.com
Site: http://www.move2create.com
About: I was born in The Netherlands in 1982 and now reside in Orlando, FL, USA. I do web, graphics and audio/video design. I believe that you can bring change through little and big steps. Big steps for those that like change, little steps for those that don't. Ecotipsforlife.com is not only meant to become a useful reference but also catalogs my own personal journey toward becoming more environ-mind(ed)See Authors Posts (28)

• http://twitpic.com/5zvsz – Honeydew melon, week 5 (may 26st ‘09) – blocks indicate 1″ #
• http://twitpic.com/5zvq7 – Honeydew melon, week 5 (may 24th ‘09) – blocks indicate 1″ #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-24

May 24th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)closeAuthor: Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin) Name: Thomas Korthuis
Email: thomas@move2create.com
Site: http://www.move2create.com
About: I was born in The Netherlands in 1982 and now reside in Orlando, FL, USA. I do web, graphics and audio/video design. I believe that you can bring change through little and big steps. Big steps for those that like change, little steps for those that don't. Ecotipsforlife.com is not only meant to become a useful reference but also catalogs my own personal journey toward becoming more environ-mind(ed)See Authors Posts (28)

• http://twitpic.com/5rlsv – Honeydew melon, week 4 (may 23rd ‘09) – blocks indicate 1″ #
• http://twitpic.com/5mfnh – Container for Honeydew melon, made from recycled, re-purposed and reused materials #
• http://twitpic.com/5meab – Honeydew melon, week 4 (may 21st ‘09) – blocks indicate 1″ #
• florida finally getting some needed rain, expect darker pictures… #
• Looking for more eco-info? Checkout: globalstewards.org #
• http://twitpic.com/5f9u4 – Honeydew melon, week 4 (may 17th ‘09) – blocks indicate 1″ #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17

May 17th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)closeAuthor: Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin) Name: Thomas Korthuis
Email: thomas@move2create.com
Site: http://www.move2create.com
About: I was born in The Netherlands in 1982 and now reside in Orlando, FL, USA. I do web, graphics and audio/video design. I believe that you can bring change through little and big steps. Big steps for those that like change, little steps for those that don't. Ecotipsforlife.com is not only meant to become a useful reference but also catalogs my own personal journey toward becoming more environ-mind(ed)See Authors Posts (28)

• Looking for more eco-info? Checkout: ecoble.com #
• Looking for more eco-info? Checkout: earthday.net #
• http://twitpic.com/55knk – Honeydew melon, week 3 (may 14th ‘09) – blocks indicate 1″ #
• @ecotube Thanks, looking forward to seeing great content on http://www.eco-tube.com in reply to ecotube #
• http://twitpic.com/51z7o – Honeydew melon, week 3 (may 12th ‘09) – blocks indicate 1″ #
• Looking for more eco-info? Checkout: dailyecotips.com #
• http://twitpic.com/4zadn – Honeydew melon, week 3 (may 10th ‘09) – blocks indicate 1″ #
• Looking for more eco-info? Checkout: DailyEcoTips.com #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-10

May 10th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)closeAuthor: Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin) Name: Thomas Korthuis
Email: thomas@move2create.com
Site: http://www.move2create.com
About: I was born in The Netherlands in 1982 and now reside in Orlando, FL, USA. I do web, graphics and audio/video design. I believe that you can bring change through little and big steps. Big steps for those that like change, little steps for those that don't. Ecotipsforlife.com is not only meant to become a useful reference but also catalogs my own personal journey toward becoming more environ-mind(ed)See Authors Posts (28)

• http://twitpic.com/4uq98 – Honeydew melon, week 3 – blocks indicate 1″ #
• Looking for more eco-info? Checkout: coolplanet.org #
• Looking for more eco-info? Checkout: conservation.org #
• http://twitpic.com/4nt59 – Same honeydew melon, clearer picture – lines indicate 1″ (I’ll find a better way of indicating size later on) #
• Honeydew melon – week 2 http://twitpic.com/4llnv #
• http://twitpic.com/4jzam – Radish harvest after 3 months of growing them #
• As a follow up to this post: http://tinyurl.com/ecotipsforlife1 I’ll be posting pics of the patio-type garden we started in our patio/yard #
• Looking for more eco-info? Checkout: climatesaverscomputing.org #

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TwitPic on Twitter: The garden Part Deux

May 4th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)closeAuthor: Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin) Name: Thomas Korthuis
Email: thomas@move2create.com
Site: http://www.move2create.com
About: I was born in The Netherlands in 1982 and now reside in Orlando, FL, USA. I do web, graphics and audio/video design. I believe that you can bring change through little and big steps. Big steps for those that like change, little steps for those that don't. Ecotipsforlife.com is not only meant to become a useful reference but also catalogs my own personal journey toward becoming more environ-mind(ed)See Authors Posts (28)

In Tip #18 I stated how much fun it is to have your own stuff growing.

To share the fun we’re having with growing our own stuff (however puny the resulting vegetables may turn out to be…) I’ll be posting pictures regularly of our own backyard/patio garden to the ecotipsforlife twitter page.

It’ll include pictures of stuff we have grown an harvest recently and photo’s of stuff we are currently growing or have just planted and following it along the way. This way we can share a little of the experience with you.

Check the twitter page regularly to view updated pics.

UPDATE: Also if anybody has any growing tips for central/southern florida, please feel free to send them.

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April 25th, 2009 AmyDunncloseAuthor: AmyDunn Name: Amy Dunn
Email: amyoutofthebox@gmail.com
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I wanted to submit this post- it is full of good eco tips:

http://organiceggwhites.blogspot.com/2009/04/eggology-shares-eco-deeds-you-can-start.html

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Earth day ‘09 – April 22nd

April 20th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)closeAuthor: Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin) Name: Thomas Korthuis
Email: thomas@move2create.com
Site: http://www.move2create.com
About: I was born in The Netherlands in 1982 and now reside in Orlando, FL, USA. I do web, graphics and audio/video design. I believe that you can bring change through little and big steps. Big steps for those that like change, little steps for those that don't. Ecotipsforlife.com is not only meant to become a useful reference but also catalogs my own personal journey toward becoming more environ-mind(ed)See Authors Posts (28)

Budget: Up to you
Time required: Up to you
Estimated Impact: Up to you

Tip: Just a mention of the upcoming Earth day on April 22nd. For more info visit http://ww2.earthday.net or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

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