Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do.
I shop at thrift stores and consignment shoppes. I wear my clothes as is, and maybe get them dry cleaned whenever possible.
It's funny: being green to me was ingrained because my parents were always trying to save money, save water, turn off the lights, or arrange a carpool. I don't think my parents even know what it means to be green, but they were.
Your garbage, transformed, is your gift.
I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
I love thrifting.
People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.
I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.
You never throw away your work clothes. There is always something to do in the house.
I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.
Support renewable energy. Recycle. Reuse. Restore. Replenish.
Definitely that's the worst, to discover that something you're doing has already been done.
I love all things crafty. I love to make jewelry. I love to cut up old clothes and turn them into something new. I love projects like transforming a busted table into a shiny new table. I'm really into restoration and little side projects.
The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.
Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.
I love going into junk shops, picking up something that looks like it's got a bit of history to it, then sanding it down and reviving it.
I do like shopping high street, but I do consider the long-term value of a specific piece and, also, one day giving it up for somebody else to love and enjoy.
I've always been kind of deep into thrifting and secondhand clothing.
Getting silver and gold out of junk machinery was quick to be learnt by others.
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
I really love secondhand clothes. It's fun to turn them into something new.
I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.
I am operating under the philosophy that I will simply use what I need and the rest - even if I still have it somewhere - is not mine. It is others'. It is for the healing of the natural world. And it is in the process of returning.
