Green Tip Roundup

Instructables is always a fun and useful site, but lately they’ve had a lot of really smart ideas for DIY energy savings.

DIY Double Glazing. Double glazed windows are amazing. They can cut down both on your energy bills and on the noise you can hear from outside. Shanitan found a way to get the same effect DIY-style (and it looks nice, too): “Double Glazing is expensive and retrofitting even more so. Using basic principles of keeping a layer of air in between 2 layers of glass, I decided to use perspex as the indoor layer and keep that on our windows with magnetic strips. Perpex has good low E properties, is relatively inexpensive, shatterproof and does not break as easily as glass.”
Make transport planters out of coffee cup sleeves. Ever wished there was a way to reuse those coffee cup sleeves you get at coffeeshops? Summation came up with something simple and beautiful: making temporary planters for seedlings and cuttings from your garden, and giving them to friends.
We’ve talked about DIY composting here before, and now Coopdaddi shows you how to make your own vermicomposting (worm) bin out of an old cooler: The Worm-A-Rator.