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Tropical Treatment
Replace Toxic Household Products with Coconut Oil Coconut oil is best known as a curry ingredient, smoothie additive, and beauty product. It also belongs in the cleaning cabinet as a natural and...
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19 Creative Ways to Repurpose Old Books
For avid readers, altering a book’s cover or pages in any way may feel sacrilegious. But do you really honor your books by letting them accumulate dust on the shelves? If you feel like putting your...
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24 Eco-Friendly, DIY Wedding Ideas
Wedding planning can be really (really) stressful. For earth-loving folks, the process can get even trickier, as most classic wedding decorations, favors, and traditions are far from eco-friendly....
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Pollution Revolution
How to Combat Air Pollution Air pollution has a variety of contributors from stationary sources, like factories and power plants, to natural sources, like forest fires and dust storms. Air pollution...
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LEEDing the Way
Greening Buildings with LEED Certification LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, is a green building certification program. From sustainable site development to indoor environmental...
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Re-introducing CustomMade
We’d like to share a bit about some changes we’ve made here at CustomMade. But first, let’s take a quick look at how we got here. How to succeed a little and still fail: a classic startup tale In 2011,...
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A Quick Update One Year On
What have we been up to? It’s been just over a year since we announced the re-launch of CustomMade as a custom jeweler, so we thought we’d step back to take a look at this past year. As you can...
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Don’t Let Marketing Get in the Way of Your Diamond Decision
Big news in the jewelry industry last week: De Beers is launching a new brand to create and sell man-made diamonds. This is a big deal for a whole bunch of reasons, not the least of which is that De...
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Buried Treasure
Preserve the Harvest in a Root Cellar Imagine eating homegrown cabbage, beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, apples, and other produce on a winter evening, without the use of canning or refrigeration....
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Vertical Gardening
Save Space by Growing Up Want to multiply the number of plants you can grow in a garden or on a patio or deck? Grow up! Vertical gardening, a technique to cultivate plants up surfaces or supports, is...
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